Bluff, 9781780748139
Paperback
Central banks saved us from fire they started.

Bluff

The Game Central Banks Play and How it Leads to Crisis

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    26 July 2016

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Summary

The accepted narrative of the global financial crisis of 2007-09 is that the central banks saved us from an inferno caused by Wall Street greed. While there is no doubt they did save us, it was in fact the firefighters who caused the fire.

The Bank of England and US Federal Reserve have used the bait of low interest rates together with the bite of inflation in their quest for economic growth. Bluff reveals how these tactics have failed and instead left us with an unhealthy mi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781780748139
ISBN-10:1780748132
Author:Anjum Hoda
Publisher:Oneworld Publications
Imprint:Oneworld Publications
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:26 July 2016
Weight:340g
Dimensions:225mm x 146mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

‘Sound post-Keynesian economic reasoning well argued–a book that one hopes, against the odds, the heads of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England will entertain.’

‘[Hoda] has an intricate knowledge of how money markets work and uses this to good effect…it has rarely been more clearly explained…. enlivened by some amusing analogies’.

* Financial Times *

‘Sound post-Keynesian economic reasoning well argued—a book that one hopes, against the odds, the heads of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England will entertain.’

* Kirkus *

‘An interesting take on the causes of financial crashes.’

* Publishers Weekly *

About The Author

Anjum Hoda

Anjum Hoda has worked for nearly two decades as a fixed income portfolio manager, derivatives trader and strategist at J.P. Morgan, Standard Chartered and Swiss Re. She continues to work in asset management and currently runs Macrantha Capital Advisory. She lives in London.

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