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3) The Fed: the inside story of how the world's most powerful financial institution drives the market
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Biography of Alan Greenspan current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board highlighting key events of his tenure, and examines how the Board must make decisions containing political and economic implications while maintaining a degree of political independence.
Author
Publisher
American Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Take a close look at the mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. Traces the history of the Federal Reserve, revealing how the American government has used the Reserve as a way to deceive taxpayers and control the global economy and explaining how the Reserve influences the flow of money between citizens, businesses, banks, and the government.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A product of more than five years of research, Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan brings into focus the mysterious point where politics and the economy meet. Through Greenspan's story, Mallaby casts every presidency from Nixon to George W. Bush in a fresh new light. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. The Man Who Knew is a searching reckoning with what exactly comprised the...
13) Banks and politics during the Progressive Era: the origins of the Federal Reserve System, 1897-1913
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2012, c1992
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This book contains essays presented at a conference held in November 2010 to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the U.S. Treasury. The 1910 meeting resulted in the Aldrich Plan, a precursor to the Federal Reserve Act that was enacted by Congress in 1913. The 2010 conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Rutgers University, featured assessments of the Fed's near 100-year...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The former chairman of the Federal Reserve documents his rise from a Southern youth to Ivy League professorships prior to the 2007 housing bubble burst, detailing the dramatic efforts to salvage the U.S. economy that made him "Time" magazine's 2009 Person of the Year.
20) Central banking systems compared: the ECB, the pre-euro Bundesbank, and the Federal Reserve System
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English