Uued teosed LHV raamatukogus

Finantsaabits (Finantsinspektsioon, Nasdaq OMX Tallinn AS) 2011
„Finantsaabits on käsiraamat õpetajatele, kes annavad majandus- ja ettevõtlusõppe tunde või soovivad lülitada matemaatika, ühiskonnaõpetuse, inimeseõpetuse ja ka teiste ainete tundidesse elulisi ja igapäevaselt olulisi näiteid rahamaailmast, et parandada laste finantskirjaoskust. Raamat sobib lugemiseks ka kõigile teistele, kes tahavad oma isiklikke rahaasju targalt korraldada.
Raamat annab teadmisi isiklike finantseesmärkide seadmisest, pere-eelarve koostamise põhimõtetest, investeerimis- ja laenamisotsuste aluseks olevast matemaatikast, pankade, kindlustusseltside ja muude finantsasutuste pakutavate teenuste omadustest, pensionifondide ja väärtpaberiturgude toimimise alustest. Kogu seda teemaderingi ei ole raamatu mahu tõttu võimalik käsitleda kõigis peensustes, selle puuduse parandamiseks sisaldab raamat hulganisti viiteid detailsema või kiiresti muutuda võiva info asukohale.“

Raha võidukäik (Niall Ferguson) 2010
Mis on õieti raha? On see hõbedast mägi, nagu arvasid Hispaania konkistadoorid? Või piisab savitahvlitest ja täistrükitud paberist? Kuidas me oleme jõudnud niikaugele, et enamik rahast on nähtamatu, enamasti vaid numbrid arvutiekraanil? Kust raha tuli? Ja kuhu ta kõik kadus?
Ühe tänapäeva mõjukama briti ajaloolase, Harvardi ülikooli professori Niall Fergusoni uus raamat räägib sellest, et iga suure maailmaajaloolise nähtuse taga peitub mingi finantssaladus ning tutvustab lugejale neist kõige tähtsamaid. Näiteks võis renessanss tekitada kunsti- ja arhitektuuriturul tõelise buumi vaid seetõttu, et rikaste Põhja-Itaalia linnriikide valitsejad pidasid oluliseks kunsti ja teaduste soosimist. Majanduslik tõus, rikkuste kogunemine ja panganduse teke olid otseses seoses kirjanduse, kunsti ja filosoofia õitselepuhkemisega. Ja see oli finantslollus, ennasthävitav maksete ajatamise ja devalvatsioonide keeris, mis muutis 20. sajandi algul maailma rikkaimate riikide hulka kuulunud Argentina vähem kui sada aastat hiljem sisuliselt arengumaaks.
Rahanduse ajalugu kulgeb üles-alla, kriisid ja buumid toimuvad vaheldumisi. Nõnda ongi praegu, mil maailm vaevleb viimaste kümnendite suurima majanduskriisi küüsis, parim aeg lugeda Fergusoni põhjalikku ja köitvat raamatut, et mõista raha võidu- ja allakäike.

You Can be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits (Joel Greenblatt) 1999
Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he's going to show you how to do it, too. You're about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school professors, and top investment experts regularly miss -- uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards. Here is your personal treasure map to special situations in which big profits are possible, including: spin-offs, restructurings, merger securities, mergers, rights offerings, recapitalizations, bankruptcies, risk arbitrage.  This is a practical and easy-to-use investment reference, filled with case studies, important background information, and all the tools you'll need. All it takes is a little extra time and effort -- and you can be a stock market genius.

No Way to Run an Economy: Why the System Failed and How to Put It Right (Graham Turner) 2009
In The Credit Crunch, Graham Turner predicted that banks would be nationalised and interest rates would be reduced too slowly to halt the crisis. His predictions were correct. His new book, No Way to Run an Economy, is the essential guide to the turbulent times ahead. Turner recommended radical measures, such as quantitative easing, in early 2008 but argues that action has been taken too late and been too timid to make a real difference. He dissects the policy mistakes of the last 12 months including Obama's doomed market-led response to the crisis and the obsession of central banks with the red herring of inflation. There is no doubt the economy is still in serious trouble, but Turner shows that learning from the mistakes made so far can prevent a situation worse than that of the 1930s crisis.

The Wealth of Nations: The Economics Classic - A selected edition for the contemporary reader (Capstone Classics) (Adam Smith, Tom Butler-Browdon) 2010
Published in 1778, The Wealth of Nations was the first book on economics to catch the public's attention. It provides a recipe for national prosperity that has not been bettered since, based on small government and the freedom of citizens to act in their best interests. It reassuringly assumes no knowledge of its subject, and over 200 years on still provides valuable lessons on the fundamentals of economics. This deluxe, selected edition is a stylish keepsake from the Capstone Classics series. This edition includes:
- An abridged selection of all 5 books for the contemporary reader
- An original commentary offering new research and analysis by classic literature guru Tom Butler-Bowdon
- A biography and chronology of Adam Smith's life and the events surrounding the original publication of the work

The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis (Michael W. Hudson) 2010
In this stunning narrative, award-winning reporter Michael W. Hudson reveals the story of the rise and fall of the subprime mortgage business by chronicling the rise and fall of two corporate empires: Ameriquest and Lehman Brothers. As the biggest subprime lender and Wall Street's biggest patron of subprime, Ameriquest and Lehman did more than any other institutions to create the feeding frenzy that emboldened mortgage pros to flood the nation with high-risk, high-profit home loans. It's a tale populated by a remarkable cast of the characters: a shadowy billionaire who created the subprime industry out of the ashes of the 1980s S&L scandal; Wall Street executives with an insatiable desire for product; struggling home owners ensnared in the most ingenious of traps; lawyers and investigators who tried to expose the fraud; politicians and bureaucrats who turned a blind eye; and, most of all, the drug-snorting, high-living salesman who tell all about the money they made, the lies they told, the deals they closed.

The Match King: Ivar Kreuger and the Financial Scandal of the Century: Ivan Kreuger and the Financial Scandal of the Century (Frank Partnoy) 2010
At the height of the roaring ’20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression.Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy (Anatole Kaletsky) 2010
'The global financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 ruined businesses and banks, individuals and even nations, and seemed to land a mortal blow to the capitalist system. But capitalism has not been destroyed, rather it has been irrevocably altered: the forces that precipitated the crisis are now contributing to the evolution of a new, stronger version of the capitalist model. Tracing the development of capitalism from the late eighteenth century through three distinct historical phases, Kaletsky shows how at each of these transitions the existing economic order appeared to be fatally threatened, only for capitalism to reinvent itself and emerge stronger than before. The turning point for our most recent age of capitalism came on 15 September 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off market chaos which, had it not been for government bailouts and guarantees, would have toppled every bank in the Western world, an incident which set off the fourth major systemic transformation in capitalism's history' - "Capitalism 4.0". Understanding Capitalism 4.0 will be critical to the continued recovery of our global economies.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner) 2007
Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens.

 

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Peter Elkind, Bethany McLean) 2004
What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century? Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy. Feared by rivals, worshipped by investors, Enron seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every year; its stock price surged ever upward; its leaders were hailed as visionaries. Then a young Fortune writer, Bethany McLean, wrote an article posing a simple question – how, exactly, does Enron make its money? Within a year Enron was facing humiliation and bankruptcy, the largest in US history, which caused Americans to lose faith in a system that rewarded top insiders with millions of dollars, while small investors lost everything. It was revealed that Enron was a company whose business was an illusion, an illusion that Wall Street was willing to accept even though they knew what the real truth was. This book - fully updated for the paperback - tells the extraordinary story of Enron's fall.

The Fearful Rise of Markets: Short View of Global Bubbles and Synchronised Meltdowns (John Authers) 2010
Award-winning Financial Times journalist John Authers explains the multiple roots of repeated financial crises. He explains why it is that investment bubbles now form all at once, all across the world and why  so many markets that were once considered disconnected are now able to collapse all at the same time. He offers a strategy for preventing future financial disasters. Market bubbles are growing ever bigger, ever more terrifying. As soon as one ends, the next one seems already to be inflating. Multiple markets, once disconnected, are aligning in ways that are increasingly unpredictable and uncontrollable. Something has changed. What can we do about it? The Fearful Rise of Markets explains how the world’s markets became synchronised, how they formed a bubble, how they all managed to crash together and then rebound together, and what can be done to prevent another synchronised bust in future.

Getting Between the Balance Sheets: The Four Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Finance (David Frodsham, Heinrich Liechtenstein) 2010
Starting, growing and selling new ventures is tough enough without worrying about finance – surely if the product is good, good financial figures will just follow? If only it were that simple.With a little focused knowledge of finance, you can run your company with less cash and grow it more quickly. You can raise smart money from investors. You can entice great people to come and work for you. And you can increase your personal return from the venture. By working closely with entrepreneurs across Europe, together with extensive new research data from venture capital providers, a financial expert and an experienced entrepreneur have teamed up to combine real-life examples with the latest in financial theory and research, to bring entrepreneurs closer to the world of finance.
The purpose of the book is to educate and to entertain, even if you don't immediately think of being entertained when it comes to finance.

Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America: How the Decline and Fall of Merrill Lynch ... (Greg Farrell) 2010
Based on unparalleled sources at both Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, Greg Farrell’s Crash of the Titans is a Shakespearean saga of three flawed masters of the universe. E. Stanley O’Neal, whose inspiring rise from the segregated South to the corner office of Merrill Lynch—where he engineered a successful turnaround—was undone by his belief that a smooth-talking salesman could handle one of the most difficult jobs on Wall Street. Because he enjoyed O’Neal’s support, this executive was allowed to build up an astonishing $30 billion position in CDOs on the firm’s balance sheet, at a time when all other Wall Street firms were desperately trying to exit the business. After O’Neal comes John Thain, the cerebral, MIT-educated technocrat whose rescue of the New York Stock Exchange earned him the nickname “Super Thain.” He was hired to save Merrill Lynch in late 2007, but his belief that the markets would rebound led him to underestimate the depth of Merrill’s problems. Finally, we meet Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis, a street fighter raised barely above the poverty line in rural Georgia, whose “my way or the highway” management style suffers fools more easily than potential rivals, and who made a $50 billion commitment over a September weekend to buy a business he really didn’t understand, thus jeopardizing his own institution.

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (Matt Taibbi) 2010
The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding—has been growing in power for a generation, transferring wealth upward through increasingly complex financial mechanisms and political maneuvers. The crisis was only one terrifying manifestation of how they’ve hijacked America’s political and economic life.

Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences (Nancy Duarte) 2010
Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often, presentations don't resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action. Just as the author's first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author's approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you'll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact. Presentations don't have to be boring ordeals. You can make them fun, exciting, and full of meaning. Leave your audiences energized and ready to take action with Resonate.

The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: Morningstar's Guide to Building Wealth and Winning in the Market (Joe Mansueto, Pat Dorsey) 2004
Over the years, people from around the world have turned to Morningstar for strong, independent, and reliable advice. The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing provides the kind of savvy financial guidance only a company like Morningstar could offer. Based on the philosophy that "investing should be fun, but not a game," this comprehensive guide will put even the most cautious investors back on the right track by helping them pick the right stocks, find great companies, and understand the driving forces behind different industries--without paying too much for their investments.
Written by Morningstar's Director of Stock Analysis, Pat Dorsey, The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing includes unparalleled stock research and investment strategies covering a wide range of stock-related topics. Investors will profit from such tips as:
- How to dig into a financial statement and find hidden gold . . . and deception
- How to find great companies that will create shareholder wealth
- How to analyze every corner of the market, from banks to health care

Uprising: Will Emerging Markets Shape or Shake the World Economy (George Magnus) 2010
Emerging markets are big news. But after the financial crisis, what does the future really hold for them? And what does this future mean for global business? George Magnus, one of the world′s most respected economic analysts, is your guide through the challenges and opportunities for emerging markets and those doing business in them. This magisterial book looks in detail at China and India – the big players – and also less hyped but crucial markets, including Eastern European countries and Turkey. Magnus takes in his sweep everything from commodity prices to climate change, and from comparative advantage to demographic to provide a compelling analysis of what the future might look like – not just for emerging markets, but for investors, businesses and economies everywhere.

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (Raghuram G. Rajan) 2010
Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America's growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy's long-term health; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world.

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