Easy Money: The Greatest Ponzi Scheme Ever and How It Threatens to Destr oy the Global Financial System

by Vivek Kaul

Overview

The financial crisis of 2008 brought the world to a standstill. Banks and financial firms all over the world had to be rescued by governments - in effect, bailed out by the taxpayer. But have things changed post 2008? Are financial firms and banks operating more responsibly? Are they taking fewer risks than they did in the past? What will happen as and when the next financial crisis hits us? Vivek Kaul answers these and many more questions on how the global financial system is operating in the post-financial-crisis era in the third book in the Easy Money series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789352777570
Publisher:	HarperCollins India Publishers Pvt Ltd
Publication date:	04/25/2018
Pages:	392
Sales rank:	1,099,331
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

VIVEK KAUL has worked in senior positions at the Daily News and Analysis (DNA) and The Economic Times. He is the author of four books, including the bestselling Easy Money trilogy on the history of money and banking and how that caused the financial crisis that started in 2008 and is still on. India's Big Government: The Intrusive State and How It Is Hurting Us, his fourth book, was published in January 2017. Kaul is a regular columnist for Mint, BBC, Dainik Jagran, Firstpost, Bangalore Mirror and the Deccan Herald. He has also appeared as an economics commentator on BBC, Mirror Now, CNBC Awaaz and NDTV India. He is a regular guest on 'The Seen and the Unseen', one of India's most popular podcasts. He speaks regularly on economics and finance and has lectured at IIM Bangalore, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Visakhapatnam, NMIMS and the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, among others. Kaul lives in Mumbai and loves to read crime fiction in his free time.

Table of Contents

Foreword Kevin Maney
Preface
Introduction
Same Old Same Old!
Some Are More Equal Than Others
Easter without a Good Friday: The AAA Bubble
The Mad Cow Disease
The British Screwed Us
How Not to Spot a Bubble
Print Money, Buy Tomato Ketchup
The Yellowstone Effect
The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
Of Currency War, Inflation, and Agatha Christie
That Four-letter Word Called “Risk”
Conclusion: “Pure Intellectual Masturbation "
Epilogue: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Double Your Money in 45 Days
Index