* The current national debt is approximately $8.6 trillion * Wright has written for Barron's, Forbes.com, and other prominent publications and has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, and the BBC * He is the auth...
An authoritative, comprehensive, and beautifully illustrated selection of jewelry that will appeal to specialists and general readers alike. This comprehensive survey features Art Deco jewelry made by...
Since first edition's publication, the CDO market has seen tremendous growth. As of 2005, $1.1 trillion of CDOs were outstanding -- making them the fastest-growing investment vehicle of the last decad...
ART DECO INTERIORS Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s By the timeof the great Paris Exhibition of 1925, the idea that an interior and itsfurnishing should form a complete design - a...
Art Deco buildings, with their highly ornate façades and dramatic forms,are a vital part of our surroundings. This wide-ranging exploration of ArtDeco architectural design embraces many different time...
Examining the causes of an acute debt crisis that began in Latin America in 1982, this study investigates private banks of the region, relating how these financial institutions were a source of grave ...
This accompanying document to the "Guidelines for Public Debt Management," which the IMF and the World Bank copublished in 2001, contains sample case studies that illustrate how a range of countries f...
Developments In Collateralized Debt Obligations The fastest growing sector of the fixed income market is the market for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Fostered by the development of credit de...
An in-depth look at China's burgeoning capital markets Author Jian Gao is the number one authority on fixed income markets in China, and with this book, he brings his considerable experience and knowl...
Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises studies the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and shows how America's and the world's growing dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of ba...
Developing country debt crises have been a recurrent phenomenon over the past two centuries. In recent times sovereign debt insolvency crises in developing and emerging economies peaked in the 1980s a...
During the past several years, there has been an unprecedented number of insolvencies and restructuring of multinational corporations - both inside and outside of traditional bankruptcy proceedings. "...
One Christmas Eve, Prince Sanruddin Aga Khan gave to his wife a magnificent jeweled box made by Cartier in the 1930s. So began the making of perhaps the most remarkable jewelry collection of a remarka...
The debt crises in emerging market countries over the past decade have given rise to renewed debate about crisis prevention and resolution. In Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises, Federi...
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative was designed to relieve the high external debt of some of the world's poorest nations. The Initiative was put in place by the World Bank and ...
Art Deco designs encompass a huge range of styles, techniques and media. Spanning the boom of the roaring 1920s and bust of the 1930s, Art Deco simultaneously drew on traditional designs and technique...