Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind f...

In September 2008, beset by mounting losses on high-risk mortgages and mortgage securities, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation teetered on ...

Translated by Ciaran Cronin.   The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to...

The 2008 crash was the worst financial crisis and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. It triggered a complete overhaul of...

Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In How Bad Writing Destroyed the World, Adam Weiner spans deca...

On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance-not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radi...

'A fearless and important book . . . The End of Alchemy isn't just an elegant guide to the history of economic ideas. It also gives a genuine insid...

In the last decade, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK's decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum. ...

How does a bear market in equities differ from a bull market? What lessons can be learned from events of the past quarter century in Japan? Have th...

Shortlisted for 2009 Australian Educational Publishing Awards. Athletes constantly strive to achieve excellence in their chosen sport - to impro...

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, off...

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, off...

The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government ...

The Great Recession is more than four years oldand counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, Nations rich in resources, ta...

Angry Baby Katie Woods has a clear message for today's politicians: 'We (the generation of tomorrow) are not going to take this mess lying down.'Fo...

In THE CRASH OF 2016, Thom Hartmann describes a country not on the road to collapse, but in the midst of an economic implosion that could make the ...

Most accounts of the current financial crisis tell a story of deregulation, out-of-control markets and irresponsible speculation. But few of those ...

This is the true story about the future that few visionaries have the knowledge necessary to put together. In order to drive the development of tec...

Never before has there been such a period of intense change at every level of our society. Almost everything that we took for granted is now open ...