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The Only Game in Town

Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse

by Mohamed A. El-Erian
Dan Woren
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide

“The one economic book you must read now . . . If you want to understand [our] bifurcated world and where it’s headed, there is no better interpreter than Mohamed El-Erian.”—Time
Our current economic path is coming to an end. The signposts are all around us: sluggish growth, rising inequality, stubbornly high pockets of unemployment, and jittery financial markets, to name a few. Soon we will reach a fork in the road: One path leads to renewed growth, prosperity, and financial stability, the other to recession and market disorder.
In The Only Game in Town, El-Erian casts his gaze toward the future of the global economy and markets, outlining the choices we face both individually and collectively in an era of economic uncertainty and financial insecurity. Beginning with their response to the 2008 global crisis, El-Erian explains how and why our central banks became the critical policy actors—and, most important, why they cannot continue is this role alone. They saved the financial system from collapse in 2008 and a multiyear economic depression, but lack the tools to enable a return to high inclusive growth and durable financial stability. The time has come for a policy handoff, from a prolonged period of monetary policy experimentation to a strategy that better targets what ails economies and distorts the financial sector—before we stumble into another crisis.
The future, critically, is not predestined. It is up to us to decide where we will go from here as households, investors, companies, and governments. Using a mix of insights from economics, finance, and behavioral science, this book gives us the tools we need to properly understand this turning point, prepare for it, and come out of it stronger. A comprehensive, controversial look at the realities of our global economy and markets, The Only Game in Town is required reading for investors, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future.

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    March 29, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9781524709297
      • File size: 266647 KB
      • Duration: 09:15:30

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A complex look at the future of the world's financial systems needs a steady voice to help listeners make sense of the intricate connections between banks and governments. Dan Woren is a capable narrator. His style is direct and measured, and his crisp diction makes long sentences easy to follow. These qualities increase the likelihood of the listener keeping up with the expansive ideas of one of the brightest economic minds of our times. The news is not good: Financial instability, political polarization, and inequalities loom on the horizon if the private banking sector does not clean up bad practices. Woren maintains a steady pace even throughout the most dire predictions of what is to come if nothing changes. M.R. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

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