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Annuities are financial products that guarantee the holder a fixed return so long as the holder remains alive, thereby providing insurance against lifetime uncertainty. This book offers readers a theoretical analysis of the functioning of private annuity markets.

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Rosko and Broyles begin the book with an overview of rising expenditures in the health care industry, commenting on inflationary pressures and the resulting reduction in access to health care services.

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This is the thirty-fifth volume in the Brookings Studies of Government Finance series. It includes four essays: Analytical Foundations of Fiscal Policy""; The Incidence and Economic Effects of Taxation""; Public Expenditure Budgeting""; and State-Local Finance and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations"".

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Scholars and students of both economics and public policy will find Rich's work a significant contribution to contemporary debates on welfare policy directions.

Divided into four parts, the volume begins by redefining the problem of welfare economics.

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This book explains Islamic commercial laws, economics, banking, finance, and capital market. It provides educative materials for lawyers, practitioners, regulators, students taking Islamic banking and finance courses and those who are interested in learning more about the Islamic finance industrys doctrine and practice.

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Subsequent chapters address the legal environment of foreign banking, international financial markets, U.S. international lending institutions, and such issues as the motivation behind international banking market structure and activities of foreign banks and major foreign banking concerns in the United States.

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The Evolving Pension System examines the foundations and the future of the private pension system. It provides a broad overview of the underlying assumptions, characteristics, and effects of existing pension policy, as well as alternative views on how public policy toward pensions should evolve in the future.

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The Financial Analyst's Guide to Monetary Policy approaches monetary policy in a straightforward manner. Then it considers the practical implications and strategies that are important to the business executives, financial analysts, portfolio managers, and investors in general.

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Must reading for institutional and private investors, this book will also be of significant interest to corporate executives who may be faced with management responsibilities during a planned corporate event such as a stock repurchase program or an unplanned disaster like the Union Carbide incident in Bhopal or the Tylenol poisonings.

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The Florida land boom was an outgrowth of the industrialization of America, the onset of World War I, and the special natural environment of the state. A place for forts and ports since the days of the Spanish Empire, the presence of military aviation in Florida served to bring attention to the state.

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From Countrywide's former senior vice president of marketing comes the first engrossing inside look at Countrywide Home Loans, how the mortgage crisis started--and where it may end.

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Focusing on three periods of economic stress, this book argues that despite convincing evidence that the Fed contributed to these crises, it has consistently emerged more powerful and influential. It tells the story of the Fed as a classic American epic: turning adversity into opportunity, responding to threat by innovating and adapting.

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Their views provide an unusual survey of current thinking in the domains of banking and finance, and an important source of current information, background, and foresights for banking and finance practitioners, students, and academics.

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government-sponsored enterprises that played a prominent role in the financial crisis of 2008, and the federal government have come to a crossroads.

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Tells the important story of how microfinance developed, how it has met the needs of hundreds of millions of people, and addresses key questions about how it can continue to meet those needs in the future.

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In The Future of State-Owned Financial Institutions: Policy and Practice noted experts discuss the challenges presented by state-owned financial institutions and offer cross-disciplinary solutions for policymakers and banking regulators.

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A historical analysis of the geopolitics of real estate with settler-colonialism on the one side and the rise of ber-wealthy foreign real estate investors on the other.