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  • Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis

    by David Skeel ...
    The herculean struggle to restore stability in Puerto Rico and a grave warning for America“A shrewd and ominous insider account of a government in financial free fall.”—Publishers Weekly"I could not put down David Skeel’s new book. It is at once an engrossing and personal narrative, an illuminating analysis of inventive legal and political strategies, a sobering examination of responses to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Icarus in the Boardroom

    The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From

    by David Skeel ...
    Series series Law and Current Events Masters
    Americans have always loved risktakers. Like the Icarus of ancient Greek lore, however, even the most talented entrepreneurs can overstep their bounds. All too often, the very qualities that make Icaran executives special-- self-confidence, visionary insight, and extreme competitiveness--spur them to take misguided and even illegal chances. The Icaran failure of an ordinary entrepreneur isn't ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • When States Go Broke

    The Origins, Context, and Solutions for the American States in Fiscal Crisis

    Edited by Peter Conti-Brown, David Skeel ...
    When States Go Broke collects insights and analysis from leading academics and practitioners that discuss the ongoing fiscal crisis among the American states. No one disagrees with the idea that the states face enormous political and fiscal challenges. There is, however, little consensus on how to fix the perennial problems associated with these challenges. This volume fills an important gap in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Political Heart of Criminal Procedure

    Essays on Themes of William J. Stuntz

    Edited by Michael Klarman, David Skeel, Carol Steiker ...
    The past several decades have seen a renaissance in criminal procedure as a cutting-edge discipline and as one inseparably linked to substantive criminal law. This renaissance can be traced in no small part to the work of a single scholar: William Stuntz. This volume brings together twelve leading American criminal justice scholars whose own writings have been profoundly influenced by Stuntz and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The New Financial Deal

    Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences

    by David Skeel ...
    The good, the bad, and the scary of Washington's attempt to reform Wall StreetThe Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is Washington's response to America's call for a new regulatory framework for the twenty-first century.In The New Financial Deal, author David Skeel offers an in-depth look at the new financial reforms and questions whether they will bring more effective ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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    The New Financial Deal

    Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences

    by William D. Cohan, David Skeel ...
    Narrated by Todd McLaren ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 14 min

    What can we expect from our eras New Deal? To answer this question, The New Financial Deal will begin with an inside account of the legislative process, then outline and access its key components: the new framework for regulating derivatives, the regulation of banking and systemic risk, and the new resolution regime. It will explain the implications of the new framework, and propose correctives ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

    by Simon Johnson, James Kwak ...
    In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Mutual Funds

    An Insider's View

    by Matthew P. Fink ...
    In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today U.S. mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. New and updated to reflect the crash of 2008, Matthew Fink's latest book, The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider's View, Second Edition describes the developments that have produced mutual funds' long history of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • End the Fed

    by Ron Paul ...
    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author and politician presents his beliefs on how to save and protect America's economy and freedom.In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve.Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which ... Read more

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  • ObamaCare Survival Guide

    The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare

    by Nick J. Tate ...
    We Read the Law So You Don’t Have ToThe practical handbook to making good decisions in our changing healthcare marketplace.At over 2,700 pages - with an additional 20,000 pages of regulations -the ObamaCare law is longer than the Bible, with many more rules. Rules that will, in the words of the president, fundamentally transform” healthcare in America.What no one explains is if the transformation ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Benefit and The Burden

    Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take

    by Bruce Bartlett ...
    A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.THE UNITED STATES TAX CODE HAS UNDERGONE NO SERIOUS REFORM SINCE 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown

    Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    Previously published as The Trillion Dollar MeltdownNow fully updated with the latest financial developments, this is the bestselling book that briefly and brilliantly explains how we got into the economic mess that is the Credit Crunch. With the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the economy, there is little doubt that we are facing a fierce ... Read more

    $9.99 USD