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Informationen zum Autor Robert Peston is the BBC's award-winning business editor. He was previously the Sunday Telegraph's city editor and political editor! financial editor and head of investigations at the Financial Times. His prize-winning blog can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/robertpeston. Klappentext The award winning BBC business editor and author examines how the economic world has changed in recent months! and how we are all affected. To keep banks alive! more than ? trillion of financial aid was pledged to them by taxpayers - that's more than ?00 for every person on the planet - and according to many! things could have been a lot worse. But what have we learned from the failure of old capitalism! and what does it mean for the future? Zusammenfassung The BBC's business editor and bestselling author! Robert Peston! surveys the wreckage of the world economy and asks - what is the future of global capitalism?
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A compelling portrait of early 21st century casino capitalism ... essential reading.,Fluent, incredibly up to the minute look at Britain ... Peston, in relaxed, conversational style is a great travelling companion along the highways of finance.,This lucid and timely guide to the world of turbo-capitalism ... absorbing book, essential reading for anyone who wants to know how the British economy now operates.,starkly lucid,Peston catches the zeitgeist of Britain and the paradox that is Gordon Brown.,engaging,Peston is our rock... The triumph of Robert Peston makes me proud of my old paper, the BBC and of journalism in general.,This remains the most riveting book on finance you may ever bother to read.,wonderful clarity,Book of the year
