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America’s Bubble Economy is the first book to focus on several simultaneous financial bubbles that are interacting to temporarily boost—and ultimately threaten—the United States and world economies. Filled with expert analysis and straight talk, this book will show you how to turn the coming economic transformation into a once-in-a-lifetime wealth-building opportunity.
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Big on assertions, little on proofs or data.......2007-08-09
The authors make a common mistake of talking about numbers (like federal deficits) in absolute terms. These numbers are always big, and create an immediate feeling they must be bad. Compared to our GNP and our national return on assets, how much debt is good, and how much is bad? Unfortunately these questions are never addressed by the authors. The authors make many "self-evident" assertions, and then create scenerios based upon these assertions. Don't look to this book for involved analysis on why the assertions might be true. Buy this book if you are already convinced and want some very general ideas on how to deal with bubbles.
An "Easy Read" (repetitive and simplistic).......2007-04-25
"America's Bubble Economy" tells us what we already have heard countless times - the stock market, consumer spending, home values, the trade deficit, consumer debt, and the government deficit are all UP SHARPLY! Japan and China now hold our future in their hands!
Recommendations include 1)avoid real estate, except for personal use (why not also recommend renting?), buy gold, commodities, and Euros (won't that create new bubbles?), stash cash in short-term funds, avoid jobs in the capital sector (most have already moved to China; what about service jobs vulnerable to India?), and become employed in healthcare or transportation (what about the current slide in trucking jobs and President Bush's efforts to let Mexican truckers in?).
Yes, I do think we have serious problems - however, "America's Bubble Economy" is too simplistic.
Colladoproperties.com.......2007-03-28
There are five bubbles in the economy, and thats not including the false promises of Social security and medicare.
Its not even including the fact that we are in peak oil.
The reality is that we have Real Estate overpriced and beginning to fall towards a crash.
The dollar approaching 80, after that its a spiral downward.
Consumer Debt is at its highest in history. People are litteraly in debt to their eyeballs.
An international trade deficit with China that may well make us one of the poorest nation in the coming future.
A national Debt of 7 billion/week.
Do not ignore the warning signs.
This book will tell you how to get prepaired.
Bleak view of the US economy, and sadly, completely accurate........2007-02-15
I've read several books recently about profiting from real estate, economic theory, the future of the US economy, etc, and I am more than a little freaked out to report that this book is both the most scary of the bunch and is also panning out to be the most accurate.
I've been recommending "America's Bubble Economy" relentlessly to my friends, and I've changed my investment strategies accordingly. Now I cross my fingers, bite my nails, and hope that Wiedemer, against all common sense and logic, is overexaggerating.
Great Analysis.......2007-01-04
Great Analysis! Am not sure that I agree with all of the conclusions, only time will tell.
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Despite the hype, the technology bubble of the 1990s was not driven by the Internet. It was driven by innate human forces that transcend the Internet, the 1990s the 20th century, and the United States. Since the 1960s, there has rarely been a year with out a bubble somewhere. Today we see bubbles in China, nano-technology, real estate, and many more are on the way.Through an in-depth analysis and interviews with over 100 of the world's most influential venture capitalists, Fortune 500 CEOs and Wall Street's multi-billion dollar portfolio managers, Frenzy reveals the unexpected driving forces of bubbles. Frenzy provides critical insights and lessons for today's business professionals, investors and policy makers to manage the bubbles of the future.
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Disappointing.......2006-12-26
I had high expectations from this book, based on the positive reviews here. Instead, the book turned out to be a strenuous regurgitation of all things that are well-known and understood about the bubbles. There is also a bit of false advertising, since the book claims to talk about bubbles in general, but instead dwells heavily on the ".com" bubble. The attempts to draw parallels between previous bubbles (such as a RailRoad bubble) and the ".com" frenzy are weak and unconvincing. The author fails to point out substantial differences between different types of bubbles such as a stock market and the real estate. The only valuable information are comments on hystorical bubbles of the past.
Exhaustive information in an exhausting presentation.......2005-07-29
Perhaps the author's job as an economic advisor in the Clinton Administration to give detailed economic analysis (copied from the book) had rooted in him a thesis writing style that must get itself fully manifested on his book. You simply can tell so by your frequent encounter in one single page of more than ten quotations from figureheads of large banks or federal agencies to support just one minor argument, and the large number of big names the author needed to thank and quote on his book) Somebody may credit that as evidence of serious work but to me it's just so tedious and exhausting. I must say that the points raised by the author are definitely valid. However, a better balance should be struck that the interest and ability of the mass public readers/investors should be taken care of, if it's packaged and marketed as an investment book like what it's. "Devil take the hindmost by Edward Chancellor" is an excellent example of such, though it hadnt covered the Internet Bubble. However, for learning and avoiding "bubbles", the later is a much better choice. At least, you wont feel get drown in a sea of data (both qualitative and quantitative wise).
THE BEST BOOK ON BUBBLES AVAILABLE !!.......2005-06-22
This book is terrific. It is both a fascinating read and insightful on a broad range of issues. Anyone interested in the inner workings of business trends or financial markets should find it illiminating.
It is both easy to read without sacrificing solid and grounded research and a compelling model to help readers identify the driving forces of bubbles.
For a general audience a great companion book is:
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor
For a more academic audience a great companion book is:
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Perez
A must read!.......2005-04-07
Even though I was a first-hand participant in the tech bubble, I never felt that I had entirely understood what my friends, coworkers and I had been through, other than with an anecdote here or a story of financial ruin there. But "Frenzy" systematically breaks down the principles of bubble economics, so successfully that, for the first time, I really feel as if I understood the essential nature of that crazy euphoria that swept up everyone from the individual investor to the CEO of the most venerable of brick-and-mortar companies. It's a frenzy that's bound to happen again -- if not already in biotech or China investment -- and I feel far better situated now to join the minority who can profit from the next one.
If you're in banking, finance or law, Frenzy is required reading.
Title: Engrossing and Insightful.......2005-03-29
This is a really great book filled with nuggets of deep insight which have changed my way of looking at markets and the economy.
I always thought bubbles were rare "defects" in a generally efficient market. Haacke clearly shows that rational decisions by intelligent people naturally lead to bubbles in many different environments. After reading the book, I see bubbles of different kinds all over the place. Haacke provides, in plain, easy to understand language, a guide book to spotting and even predicting market frenzies. I am already working on my start up for the home Robotics bubble to come!
Unlike your typical worthless "how to pick the next hot stock" book - if you read frenzy and use it - you could make real money,
Mark Cuban money.
Buy the book and read it.
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The International Political Economy of Investment Bubbles
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A must-read to every researcher or PhD student.......2007-01-09
The bible to everyone who is seriosly interested in behavioral finance , and a must read to a PhD studend.
This book includes all the seminal papers of this brand new field of science.
In my opinion if one read this book it is worthless to buy any other book about behavioral finance. A real masterpiece as I have never seen before !
A nice collection .......2006-08-31
This collection of papers concerning behavioural finance, is a very helpfull item for any PhD or reasearch student that works on this subject. Although it does not contain material of the basics of behavioural finance, it has some good papers on issues such as volatility of the markets, noice trading etc.
Too academically oriented for average investor.......2002-01-02
I was looking forward to learning about new theories in Behavioral Finance, but was a little disappointed by this book. The 21 articles each examine a discrepancy in a free market situation and develop theories for explaining the discrepancy drawing upon the behavioral finance field. I have an MBA and have been an investor for more than 20 years. There are too many statistics and academic language to be an efficient book for me. I quickly switched to finding each of the 21 questions, then skipping to the summary to find the behavioral finance theory for the discrepancy. I did enjoy the credit card high interest rate explanation and consider this explanation alone worth the price of the book. I also enjoyed the closed end fund discount price explanation also very useful. Book is ok, but 90% of the material can be skipped unless you are a finance professor who enjoys the academic orientation and detail.
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Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Volume 5 (Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research)
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Volume 5 of Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research contains an outstanding collection of papers that should prove to be beneficial to a wide variety of accounting behavioral researchers. This volume, which is divided into three sections, contains some very thought provoking articles. The first section, Perspectives of Accounting Behavioral Research, contains an insightful article by Jim Hunton reflecting on his view of the future of behavioral research in an environment that is increasingly driven by digital technology. Hunton is one of the preeminent scholars in the area of accounting information systems and this article offers insight into future research avenues for all behavioral researchers. The second section includes eight articles in the areas of auditor independence, auditor memory, auditor recall of information, decision aids, ethics, leadership style, job satisfaction and tax preparer aggressiveness. The article on audit
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Modern Portfolio Theory explores how risk averse investors construct portfolios in order to optimize market risk against expected returns. The theory quantifies the benefits of diversification.
Modern Portfolio Theory provides a broad context for understanding the interactions of systematic risk and reward. It has profoundly shaped how institutional portfolios are managed, and has motivated the use of passive investment management techniques, and the mathematics of MPT is used extensively in financial risk management.
Advances in Portfolio Construction and Implementation offers practical guidance in addition to the theory, and is therefore ideal for Risk Mangers, Actuaries, Investment Managers, and Consultants worldwide. Issues are covered from a global perspective and all the recent developments of financial risk management are presented. Although not designed as an academic text, it should be useful to graduate students in finance.
*Provides practical guidance on financial risk management
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*Full coverage of the latest cutting edge research on measuring portfolio risk, alternatives to mean variance analysis, expected returns forecasting, the construction of global portfolios and hedge portfolios (funds)
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Competence Perspectives in Managing Internal Processes, Volume 7 (Advances in Applied Business Strategy)
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The competence-based perspective on strategy and management emerged in the 1990s as a new approach to developing strategy and management theory and practice. In the past decade, the focus on organizational competences -- and the resources, capabilities, and processes that create competences -- has provided a highly productive "broad church" for theory development, research, and practice in both strategic and general management.
Authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners working within the competence perspective, the papers in this volume contribute to developing a better theoretical and practical understanding of
internal processes that significantly affect an organization's competences by exploring the dynamic, systemic, cognitive, and holistic aspects of internal processes. The papers present both theoretical developments and empirical research based on a variety of case studies and other research in diverse industrial and geographical contexts.
The papers in this volume develop four themes. Part I includes papers that address the key issues of defining and communicating the
strategic logic that directs and guides an organization's competence building and leveraging. The papers in Part II investigate the need to develop
strategic flexibilities that enable a firm to respond effectively to a range of future environmental uncertainties. Part III includes papers that focus on ways to
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Competence Perspectives on Managing Interfirm Interactions, Volume 8 (Advances in Applied Business Strategy)
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The competence-based perspective on strategy and management emerged in the 1990s as a new approach to developing strategy and management theory and practice. In the past decade, the focus on organizational competences -- and the resources, capabilities, and processes that create competences -- has provided a highly productive "broad church" for theory development, research, and practice in both strategic and general management.
Authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners working within the competence perspective, the papers in this volume contribute to developing a better theoretical and practical understanding of
interfirm interactions that significantly affect an organization's competences. The papers present both theoretical developments and empirical research based on a variety of case studies and other research in diverse industrial and geographical contexts.
The papers in this volume develop three themes. Part I includes papers that address the key issues of managing activities in an organization's competence building and leveraging processes that
span the boundaries of two organizations. The papers in Part II investigate the role of
networks and strategic alliances in competence building and leveraging processes. Part III presents papers that investigate
competitive interactions between firms in their competence leveraging activities.
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Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume 5 (Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions)
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Each collection of articles that makes up a volume of Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions paints a picture of contemporary research on this topic. In this volume, we have seven contributions from scholars in North America, Europe, and Asia, and these papers collectively address acquisition strategy and acquisition integration, successful deals and unsuccessful ones, ownership structure and managerial structure, risk and return, knowledge preservation and knowledge transfer, building trust and cultivating emotions, and alliances and networks. This breadth of attention across the spectrum of research possibilities on mergers and acquisitions is remarkable in that it suggests both that this topic has morphed in recent years to encompass a broad array of issues that go far beyond what earlier generations of scholars concerned themselves with, and that there is still so much more to be learned about the processes and performance of mergers and acquisitions.
One of the benefits of an edited volume of articles on a core topic is the opportunity it presents to bring together not only the diversity of topics described above, but a diversity of methods as well. The insights that emerge from these multiple methods may well be more varied than might otherwise be the case, and offer an additional potential contribution.
In bringing together a set of seven different papers by scholars from different disciplines, with different research agendas, and hailing from different countries yet all of whom are tackling the same general phenomenon this volume offers something that cannot be easily replicated in other forums. The diversity of disciplines, perspectives, and countries is remarkable, but so are the diversity of topics, issues, methodologies, and research questions they bring to bear to shed light on the same fundamental, and critical, feature of organizational life mergers and acquisitions.
*Provides a diverse explanation of topics and methods
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*An excellent resource for researchers, students and practitioners
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Advances in the Valuation and Management of Mortgage-Backed Securities details the latest developments for valuing mortgage-backed securities and measuring and controlling the interest rate risk of these securities. Complete coverage includes: decomposition of mortgage spreads, MBS index replication strategies and market neutral strategies, Monte Carlo/OAS methodology, valuation of inverse floaters and ARMs, relative value analysis, and hedging mortgage instruments against level risk and yield curve risk.
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Human Resource Accounting: Advances in Concepts, Methods, and Applications (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)
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Updating the book since its last publication in 1985, this new edition of the landmark work on human resource accounting has been substantially revised to reflect the current state of the field through the late 1990s. The economies of many nations are increasingly dominated by knowledge- or information-based sectors driven by highly trained and specialized personnel. Whereas physical capital was of the utmost economic importance in the past, the distinctive feature of the emerging post-industrial economies is an increasing reliance on human and intellectual capital. The growing importance of human capital as a determinant of economic success at both the macroeconomic and microeconomic levels dictates that firms need to adjust to this new economic reality. Specifically, if human capital is a key determinant for organizational success, then investment in the training and development of employees to improve performance is a critical component of this success.
This broad socioeconomic shift underscores a growing need for measuring and analyzing human capital when making managerial and financial decisions. Yet important human resource decisions involving hiring, training, compensation, productivity and other matters are often made in the absence of specific information about the different costs and benefits of these particular choices. Human resource accounting is a managerial tool that can be used to gain this valuable information by measuring the costs of recruiting, hiring, compensating and training employees. It can be used to evaluate employee training programs, increase productivity, and improve managerial decision-making regarding promotions, transfers, layoffs, replacement and turnover. Case studies illustrate, for example:
- How an insurance company evaluated a training program for claims adjusters and found that it would return two dollars for every one dollar spent.
- How a human resources accounting study revealed that an electronics firm's losses from employee turnover equalled one year's new income, and how the company initiated a program to reduce turnovers.
The third edition presents the current state of the art of human resource accounting by (1) examining the concepts and methods of accounting for people as human resources; (2) explaining the present and potential uses of human resource accounting for human resource managers, line managers and investors; (3) describing the research, experiments and applications of human resource accounting in organizations; (4) considering the steps involved in developing a human resource accounting system; and (5) discussing some of the remaining aspects of human resource accounting that require further research.
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Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Volume 9 (Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research)
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Volume 9 of Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research presents further empirical research in accounting theory. Content is of wide appeal and crosses into the fields of applied psychology, sociology, management science, and economics.
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Advances in Accounting Education Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, Volume 6 (Advances in Accounting Education Teaching and Curriculum Innovations)
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Advances in Accounting Education is a refereed, academic research annual whose purpose is to help meet the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve their classroom instruction. We publish thoughtful, well-developed articles that are readable, relevant and reliable. Articles may be either empirical or non-empirical. They emphasize pedagogy, i.e., explaining how faculty members can improve their teaching methods or how accounting units can improve their curricula/programs.
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