Author: Vicky Ward File Type: pdf The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failedIn The Devils Casino Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehmans highly charged offices. What Ward uncovers is a much bigger story than Lehman losing at the risky game of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage.A cant put it down page turner that opens the world of Wall Street to view unlike any book since Bonfire of the Vanities, except that The Devils Casino isnt fiction.ul lDetails what went on behind-the-scenes the weekend Lehman Brothers failed, as well as inside Lehman during the twenty years preceding itl lDescribes the feudal culture that proved both Lehmans strength and its Achilles heell lWritten by Vicky Ward, one of todays most connected business and finance writersl ulOn Wall Street, Lehman Brothers was cheekily known as the cat with nine lives. But as The Devils Casino documents, this cat pushed its luck too far and died?the victim of men and women blinded by arrogance. **

Author: Ian Bremmer File Type: epub A cogent analysis of the concurrent TrumpBrexit phenomena and a dire warning about what lies ahead...a lucid, provocative book. --Kirkus ReviewsThose who championed globalization once promised a world of winners, one in which free trade would lift all the worlds boats, and extremes of left and right would give way to universally embraced liberal values. The past few years have shattered this fantasy, as those whove paid the price for globalisms gains have turned to populist and nationalist politicians to express fury at the political, media, and corporate elites they blame for their losses. The United States elected an anti-immigration, protectionist president who promised to put America first and turned a cold eye on alliances and treaties. Across Europe, anti-establishment political parties made gains not seen in decades. The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. And as Ian Bremmer shows in this eye-opening book, populism is still spreading. Globalism creates plenty of both winners and losers, and those whove missed out want to set things right. Theyve seen their futures made obsolete. They hear new voices and see new faces all about them. They feel their cultures shift. They dont trust what they read. Theyve begun to understand the world as a battle for the future that pits us vs. them. Bremmer points to the next wave of global populism, one that hits emerging nations before they have fully emerged. As in Europe and America, citizens want security and prosperity, and theyre becoming increasingly frustrated with governments that arent capable of providing them. To protect themselves, many government will build walls, both digital and physical. For instance...ullIn Brazil and other fast-developing countries, civilians riot when higher expectations for better government arent being met--the downside of their own success in lifting millions from poverty.llIn Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, Indonesia, Egypt and other emerging states, frustration with government is on the rise and political battle lines are being drawn.llIn China, where awareness of inequality is on the rise, the state is building a system to use the data that citizens generate to contain future demand for changellIn India, the tools now used to provide essential services for people whove never had them can one day be used to tighten the ruling partys grip on power.llWhen human beings feel threatened, we identify the danger and look for allies. We use the enemy, real or imagined, to rally friends to our side. This book is about the ways in which people will define these threats as fights for survival. Its about the walls governments will build to protect insiders from outsiders and the state from its people.lulAnd its about what we can do about it.**ReviewRequired reading to help repair a world in pieces and build a world at peace. Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General The best book yet on the waves Donald Trump rode to power. Ian Bremmer is right that rage and scorn are not plans. He provides good practical ideas for what can be done. Lawrence Summers, professor at Harvards Kennedy School of Government and former director or the National Economic Council Few can beat Ian Bremmer in taking the pulse on the health of nations and the world. Here he dives into the divisions and disputes of the wave of protests and populism that gave the US Donald Trump and Europe Brexit. Carl Bildt, co-chair of European Council on Foreign Relations My favorite thinker on geopolitics offers a masterful analysis of why globalism crashed and populism has soared. This book wont just help you predict the future of nations it will play a role in shaping that future. Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg A crisp and compelling anatomy of present political ills across many countries. Bremmers discussion of global approaches to revising the social contract between government and citizen offers a welcome ray of light. Anne-Marie Slaughter, president & CEO of New America Global politics is a jungle today. Thank goodness Ian Bremmer can be your guide. David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee Once again, Ian Bremmer provides a striking preview of tomorrows top stories. A timely warning, but also a source of hope, Us vs. Them is required reading for those worried about our worlds future. Nouriel Roubini, author of Crisis Economics professor at New York Universitys Stern School of Business chairman of Roubini Macro Associates Ian Bremmer is provocative, controversial, and always intelligent about the state of our world, which he knows so well! Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) About the Author Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He has published ten books, including Superpower and the national bestsellers The End of the Free Market and Every Nation for Itself. He lectures widely and writes a weekly foreign affairs column for TIME magazine, where hes editor at large. He lives in New York City.

Author: Jerome P. Kassirer File Type: pdf We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts. But as the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals in this shocking expose, these innocuous-seeming gifts are just the tip of an iceberg that is distorting the practice of medicine and jeopardizing the health of millions of Americans today. br In On the Take, Dr. Jerome Kassirer offers an unsettling look at the pervasive payoffs that physicians take from big drug companies and other medical suppliers, arguing that the billion-dollar onslaught of industry money has deflected many physicians moral compasses and directly impacted the everyday care we receive from the doctors and institutions we trust most. Underscored by countless chilling untold stories, the book illuminates the financial connections between the wealthy companies that make drugs and the doctors who prescribe them. Kassirer details the shocking extent of these financial enticements and explains how they encourage bias, promote dangerously misleading medical information, raise the cost of medical care, and breed distrust. Among the questionable practices he describes are the disturbing number of senior academic physicians who have financial arrangements with drug companies the unregulated front organizations that advocate certain drugs the creation of biased medical education materials by the drug companies themselves and the use of financially conflicted physicians to write clinical practice guidelines or to testify before the FDA in support of a particular drug.br A brilliant diagnosis of an epidemic of greed, On the Take offers insight into how we can cure the medical profession and restore our trust in doctors and hospitals.**

Author: Mark Fisher File Type: pdf