First Published in 2014. This book maps the issues and traces the U.S. government's efforts to properly regulate, monitor, and prevent financial speculation and price manipulation in various markets. It begins with the period from the late nineteenth century to the first congressional efforts at regulation in the 1930s and continues on to the present, with a full chapter on the legal and financial aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The book al...

"A concise and powerful account of how the great recession happened and what should be done to avoid another one . . . well-argued and consistently informative." — Wall Street JournalThe Great American Recession of 2007-2009 resulted in the loss of eight million jobs and the loss of four million homes to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession—that the total amoun...

The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown and who was responsible. The financial and economic crisis has touched the lives of millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and their homes, but many have little understanding of how it happened. Now, in this very accessible report, readers can get the facts. Formed in May 2009, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) is a panel of 10 commissioners with experience in business, regulations, economics, and housing...

“Magisterial. . . . The direct and indirect influence of the Monetary History would be difficult to overstate.”—Ben S. Bernanke, Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal ReserveFrom Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman and his celebrated colleague Anna Jacobson Schwartz, one of the most important economics books of the twentieth century—the landmark work that rewrote the story of the Great Depression and the under...

The Definitive Guide to Captive Insurance Companies: What Every Small Business Owner Needs To Know About Creating and Implementing a Captive America’s top corporate estate, tax and asset protection attorney provides readers with true insight on multiple key sophisticated planning techniques for small business owners implementing captive insurance companies. The Definitive Guide to Captive Insurance Companies will provide readers with the ability to: - Reduce income taxation, - Increase cas...

The clearest explanation yet of how the financial crisis of 2008 developed and why it could happen againIn the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, many claimed that it had been inevitable, that no one saw it coming, and that subprime borrowers were to blame. This accessible, thoroughly researched book is Jennifer Taub's response to such unfounded claims. Drawing on wide-ranging experience as a corporate lawyer, investment firm counsel, and scholar of business la...

Completely updated, expert advice on making the most important financial decision of your life.When it comes to Social Security benefits, the first question most people facing retirement asks is, when do I start? Age 62? Given the changing laws and the overwhelming number of core rules and codicils, the answer is, there is no single best answer for everybody. This comprehensive—and comprehensible—book functions both as a primer and to dispel many of the common misc...

This is the first book on captive insurance which thoroughly examines the relevant issues associated with starting a captive insurance company. Part I begins with a description of the companies most likely to benefit from a captive program. This is followed by a detailed outline and explanation of the formation process and ends with an overview of the tax issues encountered by a property and casualty insurance company.Part II presents the first in-depth historical analysis of the e...

This text is designed to establish an understanding of the fundamentals of currency. It provides a cursory overview of the international Monetary System of which currency is the core. To enhance the readers’ foundation, the second phase of the text provides an explanation of how and why the International Monetary Fund was established. That formation is tracked from initial formation of a fixed par value to our modern day system of floating exchange rates. With those fundamentals establishe...

Your Guide to Every Tax Break the IRS Allows! HUNDREDS OF TIPS AND TECHNIQUES TO PRESERVE YOUR INCOME THROUGH EXCLUSIONS, CREDITS, DEDUCTIONS, SHELTERS, AND SMART INVESTMENTS!". . . the IRS's worst nightmare."--The New York Daily NewsEverything You Need to Know to Benefit from the New 2009 Tax LawTotally updated for 2010, How to Pay Zero Taxes lays out the simple, practical, and proven strategies that save you money at tax time...

The subprime crisis shook the American economy to its core. How did it happen? Where was the government? Did anyone see the crisis coming? Will the new financial reforms avoid a repeat performance? In this lively new book, Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy answer these questions as they tell the story behind the subprime crisis. The authors, experts in the law and the economics of financial regulation and consumer lending, offer a sharply reasoned, but accessible account of the actio...

Since publication of Hetzel's The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve (Cambridge University Press, 2008), the intellectual consensus that had characterized macroeconomics has disappeared. That consensus emphasized efficient markets, rational expectations and the efficacy of the price system in assuring macroeconomic stability. The 2008–9 recession not only destroyed the professional consensus about the kinds of models required to understand cyclical fluctuations but also revived the cre...