The Invisible Bankers
Author: Andrew P. Tobias
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780671228491
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The Bankers’ New Clothes
Author: Anat Admati
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2024-01-09
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 0691251703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the Year Why our banking system is broken—and what we must do to fix it New bank failures have been a rude awakening for everyone who believed that the banking industry was reformed after the Global Financial Crisis—and that we’d never again have to choose between massive bailouts and financial havoc. The Bankers’ New Clothes uncovers just how little things have changed—and why banks are still so dangerous. Writing in clear language that anyone can understand, Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig debunk the false and misleading claims of bankers, regulators, politicians, academics, and others who oppose effective reform, and they explain how the banking system can be made safer and healthier. Thoroughly updated for a world where bank failures have made a dramatic return, this acclaimed and important book now features a new preface and four new chapters that expose the shortcomings of current policies and reveal how the dominance of banking even presents dangers to the rule of law and democracy itself.
13 Bankers
Author: Simon Johnson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-03-30
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0307379221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.
Princes of the Yen
Author: Richard Werner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-04
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 131746219X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eye-opening book offers a disturbing new look at Japan's post-war economy and the key factors that shaped it. It gives special emphasis to the 1980s and 1990s when Japan's economy experienced vast swings in activity. According to the author, the most recent upheaval in the Japanese economy is the result of the policies of a central bank less concerned with stimulating the economy than with its own turf battles and its ideological agenda to change Japan's economic structure. The book combines new historical research with an in-depth behind-the-scenes account of the bureaucratic competition between Japan's most important institutions: the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan. Drawing on new economic data and first-hand eyewitness accounts, it reveals little known monetary policy tools at the core of Japan's business cycle, identifies the key figures behind Japan's economy, and discusses their agenda. The book also highlights the implications for the rest of the world, and raises important questions about the concentration of power within central banks.
God's Bankers
Author: Gerald Posner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-02-03
Total Pages: 752
ISBN-13: 1439109869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican—the world’s biggest, most powerful religious institution—from an acclaimed journalist with “exhaustive research techniques” (The New York Times). From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, God’s Bankers traces the political intrigue of the Catholic Church in “a meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vatican’s legendary, enabling secrecy” (Kirkus Reviews). Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church’s accumulation of wealth and its byzantine financial entanglements across the world. Told through 200 years of prelates, bishops, cardinals, and the Popes who oversee it all, Gerald Posner uncovers an eyebrow-raising account of money and power in one of the world’s most influential organizations. God’s Bankers has it all: a revelatory and astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, and mysterious deaths written off as suicides; a carnival of characters from Popes and cardinals, financiers and mobsters, kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that clarify not only the church’s aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger tensions of more recent history. And Posner even looks to the future to surmise if Pope Francis can succeed where all his predecessors failed: to overcome the resistance to change in the Vatican’s Machiavellian inner court and to rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable financial quagmire. “As exciting as a mystery thriller” (Providence Journal), this book reveals with extraordinary precision how the Vatican has evolved from a foundation of faith to a corporation of extreme wealth and power.
Why Wall Street Matters
Author: William D. Cohan
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0399590706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible—albeit flawed—engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis in 2008. Maybe you hate the greed of Wall Street but know that it’s important to the proper functioning of the world economy. Maybe you don’t really understand Wall Street, and phrases such as “credit default swap” make your eyes glaze over. Maybe you are utterly confused by the fact that after attacking Wall Street mercilessly during his campaign, Donald Trump has surrounded himself with Wall Street veterans. But if you like your smart phone or your widescreen TV, your car or your morning bacon, your pension or your 401(k), then—whether you know it or not—you are a fan of Wall Street. William D. Cohan is no knee-jerk advocate for Wall Street and the big banks. He’s one of America’s most respected financial journalists and the progressive bestselling author of House of Cards. He has long been critical of the bad behavior that plagued much of Wall Street in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, and because he spent seventeen years as an investment banker on Wall Street, he is an expert on its inner workings as well. But in recent years he’s become alarmed by the cheap shots and ceaseless vitriol directed at Wall Street’s bankers, traders, and executives—the people whose job it is to provide capital to those who need it, the grease that keeps our economy humming. In this brisk, no-nonsense narrative, Cohan reminds us of the good these institutions do—and the dire consequences for us all if the essential role they play in making our lives better is carelessly curtailed. Praise for William D. Cohan “Cohan writes with an insider’s knowledge of the workings of Wall Street, a reporter’s investigative instincts and a natural storyteller’s narrative command.”—The New York Times “[Cohan is] one of our most able financial journalists.”—Los Angeles Times “A former Wall Street man and a talented writer, [Cohan] has the rare gift not only of understanding the fiendishly complicated goings-on, but also of being able to explain them in terms the lay reader can grasp.”—The Observer (London)
Popes and Bankers
Author: Jack Cashill
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1418555304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAMIDST THE WRECKAGE OF FINANCIAL RUIN, PEOPLE ARE LEFT PUZZLING ABOUT HOW IT HAPPENED. WHERE DID ALL THE PROBLEMS BEGIN? For the answer, Jack Cashill, a journalist as shrewd as he is seasoned, looks past the headlines and deep into pages of history and comes back with the goods. From Plato to payday loans, from Aristotle to AIG, from Shakespeare to the Salomon Brothers, from the Medici to Bernie Madoff—in Popes and Bankers Jack Cashill unfurls a fascinating story of credit and debt, usury and “the sordid love of gain.” With a dizzying cast of characters, including church officials, gutter loan sharks, and even the Knights Templar, Cashill traces the creative tension between “pious restraint” and “economic ambition” through the annals of human history and illuminates both the dark corners of our past and the dusty corners of our billfolds.
About Power and Invisible Bankers
Author: B. Izar
Publisher: Vior Webmedia
Published: 2019-09-20
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9082700441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWars are deliberately created to serve the armaments industry. Central bankers systematically plunder governments and the bankrupt governments in turn rob the powerless citizens. Whoever thinks that the government is there to serve the interests of the citizen comes out deceived. Those that pay taxes pay the bill. The rich become richer and poor become poorer. All this is not a coincidence, but a preconceived plan of a small group of criminal bankers. Everyone has to deal with it, but only a few realize what is going on. Welcome to the New World Order portal. How did it ever get this far? This non-fiction book describes a number of bizarre events that happened over the last 250 years. They were carefully kept outside the history books and main stream media. This book will take you on a voyage of discovery in a world of fraud and deception. The author takes a critical view of the world around us and wrote this book in order to inform the reader how the system of money- and power structures, probably works. Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were the best known but certainly not the only American presidents, who warned the people of the lies and deceit of an occult Deep State. They were not heard but murdered. How bizarre is it that 99.9% of people still get fooled by the 0.1% criminal psychopaths that these ex US presidents are talking about. The world is ruled by a criminal cabal of Freemasons and Jesuits who serve exclusively their own interests. These Deep State elite are working on a New World Order in which they pursue absolute power over everything and everyone. To get there, countries must give up their sovereignty, the monetary system and stock markets must collapse and wars must rage. Recognizable? It is with the power of social media, that the den of vipers can be exposed, after which 7 billion benevolent people can work again on their future without grabbing bankers, robbing government, hypocritical religions and pointless wars. Why not the 99.9% against the 0.1% instead of the other way around? Most votes apply. Don't you agree? What are you going to do with this information? In this age of social media and information technology, ignorance is a choice. B.Izar.
International Monetary Power
Author: David M. Andrews
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780801444562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a thorough overview of how money is used as a tool to achieve international political aims.
The World of Private Banking
Author: Youssef Cassis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1351880306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a full and authoritative account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam and London. These banks were usually partnerships, a form of organization which persisted as the role of private banking changed in response to the political and economic transformations of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was in this period, and the succeeding Golden Age of private banking from 1815 to the 1870s, that many of the great names this book treats rose to fame: Baring, Rothschild, Mallet and Hottinger became synonymous with wealth and economic power, as German, French and the remarkably long-lasting Geneva banks flourished and expanded. The last parts of this study detail the way in which private banking adapted to the age of the corporate economy from the 1870s to the 1930s, the decline during and after the Great Depression and the post-war renaissance. It concludes with an appraisal of the causes and consequences of the modern expansion of private banking: no longer the exclusive preserve of partnerships, the management of investment portfolios of wealthy individuals and institutions is now a major concern of international joint-stock banks.
