Roger Lowenstein

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The roots of the mortgage bubble, the story of the Wall Street collapse, and the government's unprecedented response are captured in this blow-by-blow account of "the end of Wall Street" by one of our most trusted business journalists.

2) Panic: the story of modern financial insanity

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This work is an analysis of five financial upheavals in recent history. It includes coverage of the 1987 stock market crash, the 1998 Russian default (and the consequent collapse of U.S. hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management), the Asian currency crisis of 1999, the Internet bubble of 1995-2001, and the 2008 sub-prime mortgage crisis, in an anecdotal report that reveals how public knowledge differed from what was actually taking place. The author...

3) While America aged: how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis

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Lowenstein, Roger

4) Origins of the crash: the great bubble and its undoing

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Lowenstein, Roger

5) When genius failed: the rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management

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Lowenstein, Roger

6) Buffett: the making of an American capitalist

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Lowenstein, Roger

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Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business Week bestseller lists. The incredible landmark portrait of Warren Buffett's uniquely American life is now available in paperback, revised and updated by the author. Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett...

7) Ways and means: Lincoln and his cabinet and the financing of the Civil War

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Lowenstein, Roger

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"In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"-- Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis: the United...

8) America's bank: the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve

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Lowenstein, Roger

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Chronicles the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that created the Federal Reserve, tracing the financial panic and widespread distrust of bankers that prompted the landmark 1913 Federal Reserve Act and launched America's first steps onto the world financial stage.