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Breakingviews has published a selection of books for purchase and download.
FIXING FINANCE: HOW TO PREVENT A RECURRENCE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
The financial crisis has made a mess of the global economy. The world needs to make sure that a crisis this bad does not recur. But what exactly should be done? This collection of Breakingviews.com articles, published over the past few months, sets out our manifesto for change.
The book costs $15 or £10 + postage.
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DETROIT DO-OVER: GM'S JOURNEY FROM INSOLVENCY DENIAL TO A CHAPTER 11 FILING
To Breakingviews.com readers, the bankruptcy filing of General Motors comes as no surprise. Insolvency has been stalking the carmaker for years, as the accompanying collection of articles - including our suggestion GM seek a voluntary Chapter 11 filing as early as April 2005 – shows.
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PREDICTIONS FOR 2009 - HOW CLOSE TO DISASTER?
Will 2009 be a bigger disaster than 2008? Unless you read Breakingviews.com's predictions for the year ahead, you won't know the answer.
We examine the outlook for the global economy and even offer ways to profit from the recession. No one even remotely curious about the future of finance would venture into 2009 without it.
The book costs £20 or $30
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FALLING TO PIECES: CITIGROUP'S DISASTROUS PATH FROM BEHEMOTH TO BREAK UP
From our initial suggestion in October 2005 that Citi should slim down into its larger component parts to our coverage of the bank’s bailout by the US government and its strategic volte-face this year, breakingviews.com has been ahead of the curve. Understand how Citi’s executives and directors for years resisted the logic of becoming smaller rather than larger - a strategy that would have made it more accountable to shareholders and ultimately better aligned its interests to the public good.
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RIGHT TO THE BRINK: HOW LEHMAN ALMOST CAUSED THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM TO COLLAPSE
The five weeks from September 13 2008 will go down as one of the most dramatic periods in financial history. There will be time enough for the historians to do their job. But people right now are still struggling to make sense of what happened during this momentous month. This collection of breakingviews.com’s unrevised, real-time views is a great way to understand the current crisis.
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A SYSTEM RUN AMOK
One year after the onset of the credit crisis, it is more clear than ever that the financial system has run amok. The crisis has revealed how bankers have too often taken massive bets – normally with other people’s money – without paying adequate attention to the risks. Ordinary savers have lost out, taxpayers may end up footing the bill and the evil of inflation has been allowed to seep back into the global economy.
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WHEN THE DANCING STOPPED: THE CREDIT CRUNCH OF 2007 AS IT HAPPENED
A collection of Breakingviews' best stories on the credit crunch, including early signs of the gathering storm, the bank run on Northern Rock and the Devil's dictionary of finance
A great gift for friends who want to understand the current crisis.
The book costs £20 or $40 + postage.
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BLACKSTONED
Last year, Breakingviews highlighted Blackstone’s rich price-tag and the risks associated with the industry’s ephemeral boom. The stock has since halved. How could this have happened? “Blackstoned” is the breakingviews Blackstone saga. We hope that you find it a compelling account of one of the most emblematic deals of the current financial crisis.
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RUN ON THE ROCK: THE NORTHERN ROCK DEBACLE
Our best stories on the first run on a UK bank in living memory.
The book costs £15 or $30 + postage.
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A TURBULENT YEAR: PREDICTIONS FOR 2008
A collection of 2008 predictions by Breakingviews.com. “A Turbulent Year” covers everything from the future direction of the dollar, to the first private equity mega-buyout to blow up, to the next big thing on the internet, to what bankers must do to keep their jobs.
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STEEL MAGNATES
A series of hard hitting articles on Mittal Steel's hostile takeover of Arcelor.
The book costs £100 or $200 + postage.
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PRIVATE EQUITY
The views that set the agenda for the private equity debate.
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