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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813810703321

Autore

Baker Dean

Titolo

False Profits : Recovering from the Bubble Economy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011

ISBN

1-283-14664-9

9786613146649

1-60994-475-5

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Collana

0

Disciplina

330.973

Soggetti

Finance - United States

Finance -- United States

Financial crises - United States

Financial crises -- United States

United States - Economic conditions - 2009-

United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-

United States - Economic policy - 2009-

United States -- Economic policy -- 2009-

Finance

Business & Economics

Financial Management & Planning

United States Economic conditions 2009-

United States Economic policy 2009-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Economic Collapse: It Is Their Fault; 2 Surveying the Damage; 3 The Terrible Tale of the TARP; 4 Will They Ever Discover the Housing Bubble?; 5 Stimulus: It Is Just Spending; 6 Real Stimulus: Progressive Programs to Boost the Economy; 7 Reforming the Financial System; 8 Remember the Housing Bubble!; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Despite reports that the recession may be ending, the unemployment



rate is sky high and home foreclosures are at record levels. It's no secret that the U.S. economy is in shambles because of the recent housing bubble. However, according to Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the people who looked the other way as the eight trillion dollar housing bubble grew unchecked are trying to rewrite history by downplaying the impact of the bubble. In False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, he recounts the strategies used by the country's top economic policy