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Celebrated economic policy maker and political theorist Robert B. Reich argues that the nation's 2008 economic collapse is the result of an increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top--and a middle class that had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living. To ensure that prosperity is widely shared, he continues, requires the implementation of a much broader safety net for the middle class financed by higher marginal...
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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...
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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The founder of Oscar Capital Management and SkyBridge Capital draws on insights and stories from his long-term relationship with Donald Trump to explain how the current administration's economic policies are promoting a thriving Wall Street.
6) Cliffhanger
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Frontline investigates the inside story of how Washington has failed to solve the country's problems of debt and deficit.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Surveying the current state of American society and economy, this companion to The Seventeen Traditions offers 17 solutions, including cracking down on corporate crime, rebooting civic education, and innovating new programs to create job growth, to save the country before it's too late.
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
cp2011
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English
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Through the lens of ten letters to which Obama responded personally, this exceptionally relevant and poignant book explores those individual stories, taking an in-depth look at the misfortunes, needs, opinions, and, yes, anger over the current state of the country that inspired ten people to put pen to paper.
10) Zero hour: turn the greatest political and financial upheaval in modern history to your advantage
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Predicts that the 2020s will bring a major financial crash and global upheaval with low points in multiple political, economic, and demographic cycles, and provides practical guidance on how to weather this "economic winter."
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A co-founder of Facebook makes the case that one percenters like him should pay their fortune forward in a radically simple way: a guaranteed income for working people as a tool to combat poverty and stabilize the middle class.
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"Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to ... Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition--we're working harder than ever to avoid change ... Cowen [believes that] there are significant collateral downsides...
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Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"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,...
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"...the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus : sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes economic, social and environmental objectives in shaping policy. In focusing too much on economic growth, the United States has neglected rising economic inequality and dire environmental threats. Now, even growth is...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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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.
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Portfolio/Pengiun
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we're facing a decade-long "great deflation"-and what to do about it. Throughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on demographics-the ultimate tool for predicting both big and small trends, decades in advance. Now he explains what's going to happen to our economy with the accelerating retirements of the Baby Boomers. Inflation rises when a larger than usual...
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