Washoe County Library System

"The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe--and a stale argument between two false solutions, "austerity" on one side and "stimulus" on the other. Both sides and practically all analyses of the crisis so far take for granted that the economic growth from the early 1950s until 2000--interrupted only by the troubled 1970s--represented a normal...

The United States of America is in danger of becoming a Third World nation. The evidence is all around us: Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the jobs that have formed the backbone of our economy; our education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow's workforce to land good 21st century jobs; our infrastructure is crumbling; our economic system has been reduced to recurring episodes of Corporations Gone Wild; our political...

"The scourge of Americas economy isn't the success of the 1 percentquite the opposite. The real problem is the governments well-meaning but misguided attempt to reduce the payoffs for success,"--Amazon.com.

The co-author of the best-selling 13 Bankers outlines a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world of classroom Economics, clarifying the study's assumptions and misleading teachings while sharing historical insights into how economism became a prevalent influence in the U.S.

Gilder compares America's current economic challenges with her past economic problems-- particularly those of the late 1970s-- and explains why Obama's big-government, redistributive policies are doing more harm than good for the poor. He makes the case that supply-side economics and free market policies are-- and always will be-- the answer to decreasing America's poverty rate and increasing her prosperity

"Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation , the eSpecial heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of our economic malaise, is now-at last-a book. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multidecade stagnation...

Written in the candid, high-spirited voice that is Warren's trademark, This Fight Is Our Fight tells eye-opening stories about her battles in the Senate and vividly describes the experiences of hard-working Americans who have too often been given the short end of the stick. Elizabeth Warren has had enough of phony promises and a government that no longer serves its people--she won't sit down, she won't be silenced, and she will fight back.

Predicts a worse crash if key economic changes cannot be made, arguing that American consumer habits are at the heart of today's problems and recommends that the nation declare bankruptcy and rebuild broken systems from scratch.

"By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into the equivalent of a medically induced coma. Nick Timiraos...draws on extensive interviews to detail the...the largest, swiftest U.S. economic policy response since World War II. Trillion dollar triage goes inside the Federal Reserve...to chronicle how its plainspoken chairman,...