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The Number That Killed Us

Author : Pablo Triana
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118171543
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book The Number That Killed Us written by Pablo Triana and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at the risk measurement tool that has repeatedly hurt the financial world The Number That Killed Us finally tells the "greatest story never told": how a mysterious financial risk measurement model has ruled the world for the past two decades and how it has repeatedly, and severely, caused market, economic, and social turmoil. This model was the key factor behind the unleashing of the cataclysmic credit crisis that erupted in 2007 and which the effects are still being felt around the world. The Number That Killed Us is the first and only book to thoroughly explain this hitherto-uncovered phenomenon, making it the key reference for truly understanding why the malaise took place. The very number financial institutions and regulators use to measure risk (Vale at Risk/VaR) has masked it, allowing firms to leverage up their speculative bets to unimaginable levels. VaR sanctioned and allowed the monstrously geared toxic punts that sank Wall Street, and the world, during the latest crisis. We can confidently say that VaR was the culprit. In The Number That Killed Us, derivatives expert Pablo Triana takes you through the development of VaR and shows how its inevitable structural flaws allowed banks to take on even greater risks. The precise role of VaR in igniting the latest crisis is thoroughly covered, including in-depth analysis of how and why regulators, by falling in love with the tool, condemned us to chaos. Uncritically embraced worldwide for way too long, VaR is, in the face of such destruction, just starting to be examined as problematic, and in this book Triana (long an open critic of the tool's role in encouraging mayhem) uncovers exactly why it makes our financial world a more dangerous place. If we care for our safety, we should let VaR go. Contains controversial analysis of the hotly debated risk metric Value at Risk (VaR) and its central role in the credit crisis Denounces the role of regulators and academics in forcing the presence of the inevitably malfunctioning in financeland Describes how bonus-hungry traders can use VaR as an alibi to take on the most reckless of bets Reveals how the most recent financial crisis will simply repeat itself if the problems behind VaR are not unmasked Pablo Triana is also the author of Lecturing Birds on Flying The very risk measurement tool that was intended to contain risk allowed financial firms to blindly take on more. The model that was supposed to save us condemned us to misery. The Number That Killed Us reveals how this has happened and what needs to be done to correct the situation.

Who Killed CBS?

Author : Peter J. Boyer
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Killed CBS? written by Peter J. Boyer and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Right of Way

Author : Angie Schmitt
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830836
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Right of Way written by Angie Schmitt and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.

This Republic of Suffering

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375703837
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book This Republic of Suffering written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Great Delusion

Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300240538
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Great Delusion written by John J. Mearsheimer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony—the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended—is doomed to fail Named a Financial Times Best Book of 2018 “Idealists as well as realists need to read this systematic tour de force.”—Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Return of Marco Polo’s World It is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democracy across the world, foster an open international economy, and build international institutions. The policy of remaking the world in America’s image is supposed to protect human rights, promote peace, and make the world safe for democracy. But this is not what has happened. Instead, the United States has become a highly militarized state fighting wars that undermine peace, harm human rights, and threaten liberal values at home. In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony—the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended—is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers abroad. The Great Delusion is a lucid and compelling work of the first importance for scholars, policymakers, and everyone interested in the future of American foreign policy.

Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Brief History of the Relations Between the United States and Nicaragua. 1909-1928

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Relations Between the United States and Nicaragua. 1909-1928 written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Uniform Crime Reports for the United States

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Uniform Crime Reports for the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crime in the United States

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Killed God: Widow, Orphan, Alien & Destitute: America

Author : Phylicia Entrelle
Publisher : Alpha Book Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Killed God: Widow, Orphan, Alien & Destitute: America written by Phylicia Entrelle and published by Alpha Book Publisher. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fasten your seatbelt; Backtrack! We killed our Husband, Parent, and Benefactor. Now, accelerate slowly to the infinitesimal, sacred, scientific foundation of this entity, through eyes of MIT trained engineer, Gerald Schroeder. NASA, and NOAA will underscore those methodical principles! Don’t speed past lexicons made plain by Ancient Hebrew Research Center’s founder, Jeff A. Benner. Also, be prepared to come to a full stop upon the probability of alien visitation, hostile or friendly –– rethink thumbing your nose at the thought. On this, hear sacred scholars, Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, and Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, of “righteous memory, and anticipated Jewish Messiah. Can you imagine the Land of Liberty, –Widow, Orphan, Alien, & Destitute, displaced, scattered abroad, or even remaining here under distant rulers? We’re headed toward more clouds, earthquakes, and chaos up ahead; ––unaware? Change lanes; own up to greater than Covid–19 for ignoring the command: ––“LET MY PEOPLE GO.” Finally, look for flashing emergency caution lights herein, pointing to the prophetic warning to our Union: “ . . . progress introspectively, re–evaluate; act on past desired ascension toward greatness, before its prosperity . . . modify deeds;” . . . as global Prophet, Rabbi Jonathan Cahn admonishes; “avoid tragic repercussions dealt similar wicked nations.” Now, fasten those seatbelts; read ––go!

Grand Army of the Republic. History of the Order in the U. S. by Counties. Otsego County Posts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Grand Army of the Republic. History of the Order in the U. S. by Counties. Otsego County Posts written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Issues in America

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459717
Total Pages : 2056 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Social Issues in America written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 key social issues confronting the United States today are covered in this eight-volume set: from abortion and adoption to capital punishment and corporate crime; from obesity and organized crime to sweatshops and xenophobia.

Dying to Kill Us

Author : Mūsá K̲h̲ān Jalālzaʼī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dying to Kill Us written by Mūsá K̲h̲ān Jalālzaʼī and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monthly Review of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Review of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The CIA as Organized Crime

Author : Douglas Valentine
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 0997287020
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book The CIA as Organized Crime written by Douglas Valentine and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into the paradigmatic approaches evolved by CIA decades ago in Vietnam which remain operational practices today in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. Valentine’s research into CIA activities began when CIA Director William Colby gave him free access to interview CIA officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam. The CIA would rescind it, making every effort to impede publication of The Phoenix Program, which documented the CIA’s elaborate system of population surveillance, control, entrapment, imprisonment, torture and assassination in Vietnam. While researching Phoenix, Valentine learned that the CIA allowed opium and heroin to flow from its secret bases in Laos, to generals and politicians on its payroll in South Vietnam. His investigations into this illegal activity focused on the CIA’s relationship with the federal drugs agencies mandated by Congress to stop illegal drugs from entering the United States. Based on interviews with senior officials, Valentine wrote two subsequent books, The Strength of the Wolf and The Strength of the Pack, showing how the CIA infiltrated federal drug law enforcement agencies and commandeered their executive management, intelligence and foreign operations staffs in order to ensure that the flow of drugs continues unimpeded to traffickers and foreign officials in its employ. Ultimately, portions of his research materials would be archived at the National Security Archive, Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center, and John Jay College. This book includes excerpts from the above titles along with updated articles and transcripts of interviews on a range of current topics, with a view to shedding light on the systemic dimensions of the CIA’s ongoing illegal and extra-legal activities. These terrorism and drug law enforcement articles and interviews illustrate how the CIA’s activities impact social and political movements abroad and in the United States. A common theme is the CIA’s ability to deceive and propagandize the American public through its impenetrable government-sanctioned shield of official secrecy and plausible deniability. Though investigated by the Church Committee in 1975, CIA praxis then continues to inform CIA praxis now. Valentine tracks its steady infiltration into practices targeting the last population to be subjected to the exigencies of the American empire: the American people.

Kill Anything That Moves

Author : Nick Turse
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805086919
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Kill Anything That Moves written by Nick Turse and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on classified documents and interviews, argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Mammalian Predator Damage Management for Livestock Protection in the Western United States

Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Mammalian Predator Damage Management for Livestock Protection in the Western United States written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: