Dumped on, bond market spits crises! /

"Dumped On, Bond Market Spits Crises! explores the root causes of our once-a-decade crises, especially the crisis of 2007-2008. This book is not a thesis affirming the cultural doctrinaire of "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" as necessary vainglories or desirable initiation ritual into...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Odoom, C. Fiifi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md : University Press of America, [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the virtues. The virtures
  • Commoners join in: bonds for shopping, bonds as paychecks
  • After Greek food, the diet
  • Mediating the two savings. Public dis(savings)
  • The two walls that fell for Iceland, context of inquiry: two currents. Nationalism and the debt culture
  • The two currents, and responses
  • How the "pigs" flew. How the PIIGGS flew
  • A tale of two countries: the Icelandic story
  • On ice: Iceland and Norway, all or nothing
  • Creating value. Valuing a firm, and MCI, Inc
  • Valuing Petro-Canada and other quasi-public enterprises
  • Valuing governments
  • The Asian challenge and responses from the real side of market economies
  • When the old become hip again
  • Securitization: response to the Asian challenge?
  • The Exotics. From fixed income to the Exotics
  • Institutions that mainstreamed the debt culture. Money-creating machines fulfilling the growth and low inflation promise
  • Interest rates: the true universal language
  • Epilogue: the regulatory misfire.