MAN VS MARKETS - Couverture souple

Hirsch, Paddy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0062196650 ISBN 13 : 9780062196651

Editeur : Business, 2012

Synopsis

Man Vs. Markets by Paddy Hirsch of NPR’s "Marketplace" is economics explained, pure and simple, for the layperson who wouldn’t know a "bond" from an "option," and who believes that a "future" is when we’ll all have flying cars. Here is an illuminating, insightful, and wonderfully witty journey of discovery through the often confusing world of Wall Street and the financial markets, offering clear, relatable explanations and definitions of the system’s various instruments, yet less simplistically than the popular ...for Dummies series. Man Vs. Markets is a must-read handbook for everyday investors, serious students of finance and economics, and everyone who wants to improve their financial literacy and understand what they’re reading when they open their newspapers to the business section.

Think of this book as your friendly neighbor, ready to walk you down the aisles of the financial supermarket and explain what’s on the shelves:

• Stocks, Bonds, and Beyond: Learn the difference between equity and debt through simple, witty analogies―including what the Three Little Pigs can teach you about shareholding.
• Derivatives and Swaps: Finally understand complex instruments like futures, options, and credit default swaps, explained with the clarity Paddy Hirsch is known for on NPR’s "Marketplace."
• The Banking System Explained: Get a clear-eyed look at how money really moves, from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury to the modern world of shadow banking.
• Finance for Beginners: Forget dry textbooks. This guide makes learning about the markets fun, insightful, and genuinely accessible for everyone, regardless of prior experience.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paddy Hirsch is a senior producer at American Public Media's business radio program, Marketplace. He is the creator of the acclaimed and popular Marketplace Whiteboard, which was a Webby honoree in 2009, and has been featured on network and public broadcast television. He recently completed a Knight Fellowship in Journalism at Stanford University. Hirsch lives in Los Angeles, California.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

After years of TV and radio coverage, gallons of newsprint ink, and billions of scholarly opinions on the blogosphere, do we really understand the financial engineering that brought the global economy to the brink?

The terms and acronyms that make up the language of economics are enough to cause the layman's head to start spinning: leverage, securitization, futures, options, MBS, CDS, CDO. Luckily, we have veteran journalist Paddy Hirsch—senior producer at APM's Marketplace and acknowledged Whiteboard Guru—to help us crack the code. In Man vs. Markets, he proves that it's not impossible to understand what's going on in the glass-and-steel canyons of Wall Street; that most international financial transactions aren't all that different from those taking place every day in stores, in car dealerships, even on the playgrounds of Main Street.

Bonds? They're basically loans. Futures? You probably used one when you ordered your Thanksgiving turkey last year. Options? Ever bought a fully transferable, returnable airline ticket? That's pretty much the same thing.

With a winning combination of acquired wisdom, common sense, market savvy, and an outrageous sense of humor, Hirsch clearly explains and defines the instruments that power our financial system and very nearly caused its demise. Clever, insightful, hugely educational, and always entertaining, Man vs. Markets translates the often confusing language of finance, enabling every one of us to truly comprehend what makes the markets tick.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Business
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0062196650
• ISBN 13: 9780062196651
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 223
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: HarperCollins Publishers; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; Fullham Palace Road 77-85; London; W6 JB; Royaume-Uni