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Author Lewitt, Michael, author

Title The committee to destroy the world : inside the plot to unleash a super crash on the global economy / Michael Lewitt
Published Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 425 pages .)
Contents The Committee to Destroy the World; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION The Committee to Destroy the World; A Regulatory Theocracy; A Crisis Wasted; The Death of Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy Follies; The Failures of the Fed; The European Monetary Experiment; Out-of-Control Global Debt; Untamed Derivatives; Market Corruption; The Geopolitics of Appeasement; Iran; ISIS; Russia; Syria; China; The Obama Doctrine; We Are On an Unsustainable Economic Path; America Must Make a Choice; A Few Words about This Book; Chapter 1 The 2008 Crisis-Tragedy or Farce?; The Death of Capital
Seeds of InstabilityA Word on Speculation; Financialization; The Corruption of Moral Sentiments; Low Rates and Lax Rules; The Global Liquidity Bubble; A Crisis of Confidence; Why Finance Matters; Global Threats Require Systemic Stability; Chapter 2 The Death of Capital; The Four Essential Characteristics of Capital; Capital Is a Process; Capital Constantly Changes Form; Capital Is a Human Construct; Capital Is Unstable; How Capital Dies; Capital Is Misunderstood; The Failure of Risk Management; Chapter 3 Capital Ideas; Adam Smith and the Tyranny of Crowds; The Fallacy of Composition
Karl Marx and the Origins of OpacityCapital Is a Process, Not a Thing; Our Fetish about Money; The Instability of Value; John Maynard Keynes; Hyman Minsky; Lessons on Capital from the Masters; Chapter 4 Empty Promises; Promises Aren't What They Used to Be; The Digitalization of Promises; Collateralized Mortgage Obligations; HSBC Drinks the Mortgage Kool-Aid; A Fetish Is Not a Promise; Chapter 5 Financialization; Money Begetting Money; Power Begetting Power; Theories of Financialization; The Monetization of Values; Chapter 6 From Innovators to Undertakers; The History of Private Equity Funds
From Boom to BustPrivate Equity Fees: The New Agency Problem; The Myth of Private Equity Returns; Men Behaving Badly; Private Equity and Cheap Debt: Birds of a Feather Flop Together; Private Equity Goes Public: A Study in the Oxymoronic; Taxing Labor as Capital; Calling Dr. Kevorkian?; Private Equity: The Damage Done; Reform of Private Equity Firms; Registration as Investment Advisers; Fee Reform; Chapter 7 Welcome to Jurassic Park; Isla Nublar; The New DNA of Finance; Warning Signs; Dinosaurs Turn on Their Makers; Bear Stearns: First Casualty
American International Group (AIG)-Second CasualtyThe Bond Insurers-Third Casualty; Taming the Beasts (Regulating Credit Derivatives); Listing Credit Derivatives on an Exchange; Counterparty Surveillance; Increasing Collateral Requirements; Chapter 8 The Road to Hell; Satan in the Garden; Reverse Black Swans; Birth of the Prudent Man; The Fallacy of Diversification; Chapter 9 Finance after Armageddon; Obama Goes to Wall Street; Principles of Reform; Impose a Tax on Speculation; End Balkanized Regulation; Too Big to Fail; Improving Capital Adequacy; Limiting Banks' Balance Sheet Leverage
Summary An updated examination of what's weakening the U.S. economy, and how to fix it The Committee to Destroy the World: Inside the Plot to Unleash a Super Crash on the Global Economy is a passionate and informed analysis of the struggling global economy. In this masterfully conceived and executed work, Michael Lewitt, one of Wall Street's most respected market strategists and money managers, updates his groundbreaking examination of the causes of the 2008 crisis and argues that economic and geopolitical conditions are even more unstable today. His analysis arrives in time for the impending economic and geopolitical debates of the 2016 election season. Lewitt explains in detail how debt has now overrun the world's capacity, how federal policies of the past few decades have created a downward vortex sapping growth and vitality from the American economy, and how greed and corruption are preventing reform. The financial crisis created tens of trillions of debt, leaving investors to pay a huge price for these policy failures: The highest asset inflation we've seen in our lifetimes, although the government claims there isn't enough inflation More than $2 trillion of stock buybacks funded with low cost debt that are artificially inflating stock prices The Federal Reserve and other global central banks becoming the largest buyers of government debt in order to suppress interest rates An M&A boom resulting from companies needing to find growth outside of their core businesses While the financial media misses the story, Lewitt pulls no punches explaining how all of these trends are leading to the brink of another crisis. Lewitt lays out a survival plan for the average investor to protect their assets when the debt bubble bursts. The first edition of this book expressed hope that policymakers would not let the financial crisis go to waste. This book urges investors to learn from the crushed hope and take action before the next crisis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Globalization -- Economic aspects
International trade.
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Capitalism -- Social aspects
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
Capitalism -- Social aspects
Economics -- Sociological aspects
Globalization -- Economic aspects
International trade
Form Electronic book
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