Main Street In Crisis
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Main Street In Crisis
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Author : Catherine McNicol Stock
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 1997-09-01
Main Street In Crisis written by Catherine McNicol Stock and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-01 with Social Science categories.
This study of class during the Great Depression is the first to examine a relatively neglected geographical area, the northern plains states of North and South Dakota, from a social and cultural perspective. Surveying the values and ideals of the old midd
The Death And Life Of Main Street
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Author : Miles Orvell
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-10-01
The Death And Life Of Main Street written by Miles Orvell and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Social Science categories.
For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis. Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears, as he shows in his discussions of figures like Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Frank Capra, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. He argues that translating the overly tidy cultural metaphor into real spaces--as has been done in recent decades, especially in the new urbanist planned communities of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany--actually diminishes the communitarian ideals at the center of this nostalgic construct. Orvell investigates the way these tensions play out in a variety of cultural realms and explores the rise of literary and artistic traditions that deliberately challenge the tropes and assumptions of small-town ideology and life.
When Wall Street Met Main Street
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Author : Julia C. Ott
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-01
When Wall Street Met Main Street written by Julia C. Ott and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Business & Economics categories.
The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. How did financial markets and institutions-commonly perceived as marginal and elitist at the beginning of the twentieth century-come to be seen as the bedrock of American capitalism? How did stock investment-once considered disreputable and dangerous-first become a mass practice? Julia Ott tells the story of how, between the rise of giant industrial corporations and the Crash of 1929, the federal government, corporations, and financial institutions campaigned to universalize investment, with the goal of providing individual investors with a stake in the economy and the nation. As these distributors of stocks and bonds established a broad, national market for financial securities, they debated the distribution of economic power, the proper role of government, and the meaning of citizenship under modern capitalism. By 1929, the incidence of stock ownership had risen to engulf one quarter of American households in the looming financial disaster. Accordingly, the federal government assumed responsibility for protecting citizen-investors by regulating the financial securities markets. By recovering the forgotten history of this initial phase of mass investment and the issues surrounding it, Ott enriches and enlightens contemporary debates over economic reform.
From Wall Street To Main Street
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Author : Rodney Ramcharan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
From Wall Street To Main Street written by Rodney Ramcharan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Asset-backed financing categories.
"This paper studies how the collapse of the asset backed securities (ABS) market during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 affected the supply of credit to the broader economy using a new dataset that describes unique interbank relationships within the credit union industry. This industry is important for consumer finance, and we find that ABS related losses at correspondent credit unions are associated with a large contraction in the supply of consumer credit and a hoarding of cash among downstream credit unions. We also find that this contraction in credit supply was concentrated among downstream credit unions that began the crisis with lower capital asset ratios, and that it may have amplified the initial decline in house prices. These results suggest that capital regulation might shape the ability of financial institutions to transmit securities price volatility onto the real economy."--Abstract.
Bailout
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Author : Neil Barofsky
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-02-05
Bailout written by Neil Barofsky and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Includes a new foreword to the paperback edition.
From Wall Street To Main Street
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Author : Judith Schulz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-16
From Wall Street To Main Street written by Judith Schulz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the financial crisis cannot be explained by looking at the ‘numbers’ alone, Judith Schulz investigates the diverse facets of the economic system, including the emotional response and motivations of the actors. It is precisely in this context that fiction can fill in the gaps in the understanding of the financial crisis and its cultural context. Schulz analyses works of Don DeLillo, Jess Walter and Martha McPhee to explore the complex and multifaceted interaction between culture and the economy. These authors shed light on the impact of neoliberal economic policies and create a dialogue on the highly controversial questions related to the financial crisis. They point to the contradictions and paradoxes within American culture and show that there is a need to renegotiate issues of national identity and the American Dream.
High Tide On Main Street
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Author : John Englander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
High Tide On Main Street written by John Englander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Climatic changes categories.
NEW 2nd Edition (10-16-13) of best selling book that described a superstorm hitting Atlantic City and New York City -- exactly one week before Sandy. Just one of dozens of scenarios in this amazing book. Find out the other forecasts. Rave reviews from experts and Amazon readers. Fully updated and revised. New Introduction by Governor Christine Todd Whitman. For 6,000 years sea level has changed little. Now it it has started rising again, moving the shoreline too. In clear, easy-to-understand language, this book explains: * The science behind sea level rise, plus the myths and partial truths used to confuse the issue. * The surprising forces that will cause sea level to rise for 1,000 years, as well as the possibility of catastrophic rise this century. * Why the devastating economic effects will not be limited to the coasts. * Why coastal property values will go "underwater" long before the land does, perhaps as early as this decade. * Five points of "intelligent adaptation" that can help individuals, businesses, and communities protect investments now and in the future.
Makers And Takers
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Author : Rana Foroohar
language : en
Publisher: Currency
Release Date : 2016-05-17
Makers And Takers written by Rana Foroohar and has been published by Currency this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-17 with Business & Economics categories.
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? "A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the “financialization of America”—the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business—is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial system propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the system, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers,” those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers,” businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward.
Modernizing Main Street
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Author : Gabrielle Esperdy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Modernizing Main Street written by Gabrielle Esperdy and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with History categories.
An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America, but it has since been almost completely forgotten. In Modernizing Main Street, Gabrielle Esperdy uncovers the cultural history of the hundreds of thousands of modernized storefronts that resulted from the little-known federal provision that made billions of dollars available to shop owners who wanted to update their facades. Esperdy argues that these updated storefronts served a range of complex purposes, such as stimulating public consumption, extending the New Deal’s influence, reviving a stagnant construction industry, and introducing European modernist design to the everyday landscape. She goes on to show that these diverse roles are inseparable, woven together not only by the crisis of the Depression, but also by the pressures of bourgeoning consumerism. As the decade’s two major cultural forces, Esperdy concludes, consumerism and the Depression transformed the storefront from a seemingly insignificant element of the built environment into a potent site for the physical and rhetorical staging of recovery and progress.
Money And The 9 Steps You Need To Survive Any Financial Crisis
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Author : Nick Ruiz
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2009-12
Money And The 9 Steps You Need To Survive Any Financial Crisis written by Nick Ruiz and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Would you like to get the financial information you need to survive and eventually thrive in any financial crisis? In Money and the 9 Steps You Need to Survive Any Financial Crisis, author Nick Ruiz tackles the truth behind the financial myths that have kept you locked in a perpetual cycle of financial trouble. Readers will not only encounter fundamental financial wisdom but will tackle the emotional side of finances, which is the factor that is actually driving America into its deep recession. Nick is an expert on telling it like it is and showing how we all can survive this mess by providing Main Street's solutions to Wall Street's problems.