The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Great Recession

An Unbiased Analysis of the Biggest Economic Crisis Since the Great Depression

Author Tom Gorman
Ebook
On sale Jul 06, 2010 | 352 Pages | 9781101198025

The truth behind the causes and effects of America's economic downturn

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Financial Crisis explains the root causes and connects the events and issues with the problems that have confronted Americans over the course of more than a year, giving readers an unvarnished, unbiased, and in-depth analysis of the factors that lead up to the crisis, the major events that defined it, and the decisions and ramifications that resulted from it.

• Interest in the financial crisis continues to build with several high-profile books and an HBO movie due out in 2010, as well as the success of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story
• Much of the financial crisis writing to date has been of the breaking news variety—this book will be one of the first books published after the smoke has cleared to offer a comprehensive analysis of what happened and how
Tom Gorman is a business book author and collaborator. He holds an MBA from NYU and is former director of editorial services at DRI/McGraw-Hill, where he edited the monthly Forecast of the US Economy. He’s the author or editor of hundreds of articles, analyses, white papers, and speeches and the author of the DRI chief economist’s statement before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, along with The Complete Idiot’s Guide to MBABasics, Second Edition, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Economics.

 

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The truth behind the causes and effects of America's economic downturn

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Financial Crisis explains the root causes and connects the events and issues with the problems that have confronted Americans over the course of more than a year, giving readers an unvarnished, unbiased, and in-depth analysis of the factors that lead up to the crisis, the major events that defined it, and the decisions and ramifications that resulted from it.

• Interest in the financial crisis continues to build with several high-profile books and an HBO movie due out in 2010, as well as the success of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story
• Much of the financial crisis writing to date has been of the breaking news variety—this book will be one of the first books published after the smoke has cleared to offer a comprehensive analysis of what happened and how

Author

Tom Gorman is a business book author and collaborator. He holds an MBA from NYU and is former director of editorial services at DRI/McGraw-Hill, where he edited the monthly Forecast of the US Economy. He’s the author or editor of hundreds of articles, analyses, white papers, and speeches and the author of the DRI chief economist’s statement before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, along with The Complete Idiot’s Guide to MBABasics, Second Edition, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Economics.

 

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