Become a master of macroeconomics (without formal economics training).Do you really understand how the business cycle, fiscal policy, and other broad-based economic concepts affect your income, investments, and bank account? Macroeconomics Demystified will make sure you do, providing you with a concise yet detailed introduction to the macroeconomic principles and policies that regularly impact your professional life and financial status.This unique...

We Read the Law So You Don’t Have ToThe practical handbook to making good decisions in our changing healthcare marketplace.At over 2,700 pages - with an additional 20,000 pages of regulations -the ObamaCare law is longer than the Bible, with many more rules. Rules that will, in the words of the president, fundamentally transform” healthcare in America.What no one explains is if the transformation will be a good one or a bad one. And that’s...

Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: EconomicsFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build knowledge of Economics through active learning with the latest Powell textbook, featuring quantitative skills practice and brand new case studies.This textbook has been fully revised to reflect the 2015 AQA A-level specification, giving you ...

Ben Bernanke's history of the Federal Reserve and its response to the 2008 financial crisisIn 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed important background and insights into the central bank's crucial actions during the worst...

I believe that you will find this to be a useful resource: whether you are a student who finds the material easy to understand or a student who is having problems understanding one or more topics covered in your economics class; whether you are taking an introductory economics course or an intermediate-level course; whether you are studying economics because you are interested in the subject or because you are required to take the subject; whether you are a student at all or simply somebod...

How government and business can work together to secure our economic future.The 2008 crisis was just the beginning; according to sought-after analyst Eric Janszen, an even bigger financial catastrophe is imminent. Inclined to disbelieve him? He predicted the last two busts months before they happened.Our problems, according to Janszen, are rooted in the flaws of the debt-driven FIRE economy (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate). Applying the tried-andtrue m...

This book explains all the usual macro topics and is easier and faster to read and understand. Students who are assigned this text, or use it instead of their assigned text, tend to learn more and receive higher grades. It is available both as an e-book and in print.This is the fourth edition of Professor Lindauers ground-breaking Macroeconomics series. It holds reader interest because it constantly relates the concepts of modern macroeconomics to todays Great Recession an...

Sharpen your skills and prepare for your macroeconomics exam with a wealth of essential facts in a quick-and-easy Q&A format!Get the question-and-answer practice you need with McGraw-Hill's 500 Macroeconomics Questions. Organized for easy reference and intensive practice, the questions cover all essential macroeconomics topics and include detailed answer explanations.The 500 practice questions are similar to course exam questions so you will know wh...

Turn your hard work into the top A-Level results with the Cheeky Shortcut Guide to the most common topics within the economics A-Level subject. This workbook features key exam topics for economics with precise and clear points to help you achieve top marks.This guide covers:Supply and DemandElasticitiesMarket FailureCosts and RevenuesMarket StructureMarket StructureLabour MarketsFree Market v. Command EconomiesMacroeco...

This textbook offers a complete course in applied macroeconomics at the intermediate level that emphasizes the application of economic theory to real-world data and policy. Topics covered include national and international income, financial accounts, business cycles, financial markets, economic growth, labor markets, aggregate supply and demand, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy. The text is unique in developing a detailed toolkit of elementary statistics and graphical techniques f...

Why is China booming while the American economy lags?Despite a globally challenging economic environment, production in China has grown significantly every year, for the past twenty years. America's GDP, by contrast, fell during the serious recession of 2008-9, and is now struggling to achieve even tepid growth. Why should this be?Over the last decade, economic thought and attitudes in the West have increasingly diverged from the underlying views in China, and significant con...

Predict and profit from the chain reactions of market turmoil“If you care about the inner dynamics and investors’ reactions to the emerging new financial world that will increasingly consist of ‘path-dependent, multimodal, fat-tailed outcomes,’ Ben Emons’s new book is a must-read. In a coherent and clear framework, Ben shows how falling dominoes in a world of fast markets and uniquely new possibili¬ties creates a market landscape we might never have prepared for.”