"When Prime Brokers Fail" is a detailed look at the relationship between hedge funds and their brokerages and the risks that multiply in extraordinary markets. This relationship has been the source of unexpected risk for banks lending to highly leveraged hedge funds, as well as for the funds...

"How do economists reconcile their expertise with their failures to predict and manage the 2008 financial crisis? This book goes a long way toward an answer by using systems theory to reveal the complex interdependence of factors and forces behind the crisis. In her fully integrated view of the...

Redakteure der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung befassen sich mit Finanzkrisen der Vergangenheit und mit der jetzigen "Subprime"-Krise. Im 1. Teil geht es um Crashs der Vergangenheit, beginnend mit dem 1. Staatsbankrott in der Regierungszeit Kaiser Karls V, über die Spekulationsblase am...