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Intro -- GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN ECONOMIC EMERGENCIES -- GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS IN ECONOMIC EMERGENCIES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- AUCTION BASICS: BACKGROUND FOR ASSESSING PROPOSED TREASURY PURCHASES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES -- SUMMARY -- DUTCH AUCTIONS AND REVERSE DUTCH AUCTIONS -- Quality Differences of Troubled Assets Presents Challenges for Auctions -- Adverse Selection and Firms' Asset Holdings -- Reputational Issues and Participation -- Sequencing Issues -- Will Auctions Unlock Credit Markets? -- Costs and Risks to Taxpayers -- AUCTION DESIGN -- Single-Unit Auctions -- Why are Treasury Auctions Called Dutch Auctions? -- Imperfect Information: Common Values and the Winner's Curse -- Revenue Equivalence -- Multiple-Unit Auctions -- Manipulation and Demand-Reduction Strategies -- Complementarities -- Dutch Auctions with Multiple Units -- Uniform-Price vs. Individual Price Auctions -- End Notes -- BANKING AND SECURITIES REGULATION AND AGENCY ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND -- AN OVERVIEW OF BANKING AND SECURITIES REGULATION -- Banking -- Securities -- MAJOR ENFORCEMENT-RELATED STATUTES -- Banking -- Securities -- ORGANIZATION OF ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS -- Banking -- Securities -- COMPARISON OF ENFORCEMENT AND COMPLIANCE TOOLS -- FOR FURTHER READING -- End Notes -- BEAR STEARNS: CRISIS AND "RESCUE" FOR A MAJOR PROVIDER OF MORTGAGE-RELATED PRODUCTS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND ON BEAR STEARNS -- MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES -- BEAR STEARNS AND THE INITIAL FED "RESCUE" -- JP MORGAN INITIALLY AGREES TO ACQUIRE BEAR STEARNS WITH FED ASSISTANCE -- THE AMENDED BUYOUT OFFER -- THE ALTERED TERMS FOR THE FED AND THE DEBATE OVER MORAL HAZARD AND SYSTEMIC RISK -- RELATED CONGRESSIONAL CONCERNS -- End Notes -- CONTAINING FINANCIAL CRISIS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE UNDERLYING FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- contents -- 1 Corporate Bailouts Explained -- Stocks and Bonds -- The Top Ten Companies of 2009 -- Reasons for Bankruptcy -- Corporate Bailout Controversy -- 2 Prerecession Bailouts -- The Penn Central Transportation Company -- Lockheed and Rolls-Royce -- Other Significant Bailouts -- The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act's Rules and Regulations -- Bailouts in the Current Recession -- 3 The Subprime Mortgage Crisis -- What Are Mortgages, and How Do They Work? -- A Shift in the Housing Market -- Bear Stearns -- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Lehman Brothers -- American International Group (AIG) -- 4 The Automotive Crisis -- The Big Three Bailout -- The Troubled Asset Relief Program -- A Second Bailout? -- The Chrysler-Fiat Future -- 5 Corporate Bailout Controversy -- How Do Checks and Balances Work? -- Checks and Balances During a Recession -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Web Sites -- For Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Photo Credits

The writer is of the opinion that government intervention is the probable cause of suburban sprawl in American cities. Two types of sprawl are discussed, namely, sprawl which results due to to the creation of suburbs and sprawl arising from the inability to be mobile without the use of one's personal transport. The writer makes use of comparative tables and statistics to add credibility to the findings. The school system, the creation of highways, making jay-walking a crime and the legal obligation to provide huge parking lots for shopping centres are some of the unusual reasons why there has been excessive sprawl in American cities. Solutions are suggested to counter government intervention. Although the study is USA based, book could have universal appeal. However, as acknowledged by the writer, the cost that will have to be incurrred, may be a barrier.

Discusses the economic, fiscal, monetary, and commercial policies of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, focusing on changes since its time as a Portuguese colony; some focus on major industries such as manufacturing, gambling, and tourism.

The Third World is too diverse to allow us to make many meaningful generalizations. No matter how we define the Third World, some countries will fit the definition better than others. Pretty much the same can be said with regard to "underdevelopment". No one theory can explain underdevelopment everywhere, just as no one development strategy can solve all problems of underdevelopment throughout the Third World. In the same way that likenesses are hidden under apparent divergences, so differences are hidden under apparent resemblances.