Global Banking

Clear, practical guidance for understanding Basel III in real banking settings This book offers a structured, accessible guide to the major pillars of modern banking regulation. It explains how Basel frameworks evolved, how capital is defined and measured, and how banks are expected to manage liquidity, leverage, risk, and supervisory expectations. Written for readers who need more than a surface overview, it connects regulatory language with the operational realities of finance. Across twelve chapters, the book moves from the foundations of Basel governance to the details of capital ...

Abolish the Federal Reserve. Return to Constitutional banking. This book examines the axiomatic difference between oligarchical Central Banking and legitimate Constitutional monetary, banking and credit methods. It demonstrates that the only means to overcome our current crisis is to return to the principles of sovereign National Banking as defined by Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln. Economics is not about money and mathematical formulas; it is defined by a principle of human advancement, increases in physical productivity and scientific and technological progress. Chapters: 1. - ...

Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending. And with a few poor decisions, the Fed can plunge the entire world into a recession. The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful institutions in the world, and also one of the most difficult to understand.

In the constantly evolving world of finance, a solid technical foundation is an essential tool for success. Until the welcomed arrival of authors Josh Rosenbaum and Josh Pearl, no one had taken the time to properly codify the lifeblood of the corporate financier's work - namely, valuation, through all of the essential lenses of an investment banker. With the release of Investment Banking, Third Edition, Rosenbaum and Pearl once again have created the definitive guide that they wish had existed when they were trying to break into Wall Street. 

What if the most devastating economic collapse in modern history was not really about the stock market alone? “1929: Crash, Depression, and the Reinvention of America” is a gripping narrative history of the Great Crash, the Great Depression, and the dramatic remaking of the American state. This book goes far beyond the familiar images of Wall Street panic and plunging stock prices. It shows how a financial boom became a banking crisis, how a banking crisis became a social catastrophe, and how that catastrophe transformed the United States and helped reshape the modern world. Set against...

Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the...

How did a collapse in the U.S. housing market nearly destroy the global financial system? In 2008, millions of people lost their jobs, their homes, and their retirement savings. Lehman Brothers collapsed. AIG required one of the largest government bailouts in history. Banks stopped lending. Businesses couldn't borrow money. Global financial markets froze. But why did it happen? How could mortgages issued to ordinary American families trigger a worldwide financial crisis? Why did the failure of one investment bank threaten the entire global economy? Why did governments rescue banks but allow...

A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks. For over half a century, Banco Popular was one of...

Designed for readers who want a practical, end-to-end view of how deals are sourced, structured, executed, and managed, this book brings investment banking into clear focus. It connects the major functions of the industry, capital raising, advisory work, underwriting, syndication, valuation, and risk control, with the market mechanics and professional disciplines that support them. The chapters move from the basics of market structure and funding instruments to the realities of client engagement, transaction planning, and execution across equity, debt, loans, and M&A. Along the way, the ...

"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them." —John...

"David McWilliams is a terrifically energetic narrator with a perfect Irish lilt."—Kirkus In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money—from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley. This program...

The bestselling author of The Death of Money and Currency Wars reveals the global elites' dark effort to hide a coming catastrophe from investors in The Road to Ruin, now a National Bestseller. A drumbeat is sounding among the global elites. The signs of a worldwide financial meltdown are...

A Wall Street Journal bestseller Financial expert, investment advisor and New York Times bestselling author James Rickards shows why and how global financial markets are being artificially inflated--and what smart investors can do to protect their assets What goes up, must come down. As any...

Something is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his 10 years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. In The End of Alchemy, he offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance.

Want to know who is covertly manipulating the financial markets behind the scenes? Then follow the money! INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$: The Global Banking Elite Exposed and the Case for Restructuring Capitalism, by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance Morcan, identifies who is responsible for the gigantic financial gulf that separates the top 1% of the population from the common people, or the 99%. The financial overlords illuminated in this book include the powerbrokers at Wall Street banks, European central banks, the US Federal Reserve and the Vatican Bank, ...

An insightful and devastating account of how Wall Street lost its way from an insider who experienced the culture of Goldman Sachs first-hand. On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." The...

What is investment banking? How do investment bankers generate profit for their clients? What is the function of each specialty? How has the industry changed in the past decade? Investment Banking Explained answers these questions - and offers a complete overview of this complex industry. In easy-to-understand language, Investment Banking Explained provides everything you need to identify structures, strategies, and operational aspects of investment banking, and it offers thorough examinations of the operations of the world's most successful firms.  

Money did not begin with coins, paper notes, or central banks. It began with obligation, record-keeping, and trust — long before gold was minted or currencies were printed. This book traces the full evolution of money, from barter economies and early debt systems to the rise of central banking, the gold standard, Bretton Woods, and the emergence of the dollar as the dominant global currency. It examines how coinage reshaped political authority, how metallic standards imposed discipline, why the gold regime ultimately broke, and how the 1971 end of convertibility transformed the modern ...

How the GRID works. War is sold as catastrophe. Inside the system, it is circulation. This section dismantles the myth that war represents breakdown or exception. It shows how modern power treats conflict as a stabilizing process, one that moves capital, activates contracts, simplifies authority, and realigns narratives with minimal friction. You will see why: peace threatens budgets while war guarantees them emergency unlocks spending that democracy would delay contracts persist while governments rotate fear compresses dissent into compliance “victory” is unnecessary when continuity is...

"Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future." —Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot...