Finance drove the action in Sacred Hunger, but rarely intruded on the foreground.
Shiller politely points out that he's written some books on the subject*, before arguing that we must make the finance world work better: Finance drives modern civilisation...our best activities have to be financed.
The men characterized in the article as being at the top of the heap worked in finance, drove luxury cars and advertised lavish weekend getaways on Instagram.
His whole lifestyle is about results—he works in finance, drives an Audi, chugs fish oil, employs the #gymflow hashtag, knows his own blood type, and "isn't just there for the hookup".
The Federal Reserve said consumer credit fell by $12 billion in August, less than the revised $19 billion drop in July, but the narrower decline was likely due in part to an uptick in auto financing driven by the Cash For Clunkers program that expired at the end of the month.
The same interest-rate decrease that helps Mexico's finances drives away risk-tolerant investors seeking higher returns.
The chief executive of Lloyds has admitted that the job nearly "broke" him as its precarious finances drove him into a zombified state.
The nadir came right before Christmas 1995, when finances drove them to gather the entire staff in the brick-and-paisley boardroom and between sobs tell them they had to lay everyone off temporarily.
She crisscrosses the country on the company jet, keeps an accountant on the company payroll to mind her personal finances, drives a company Lexus with "MS BUD" plates and says she oversees the company's "strategic planning and corporate vision".
Ireland had to take a bailout of 67.5 billion euros (about $87 billion) from international lenders in November 2010 after investors, fearful of the country's deteriorating finances, drove borrowing costs above 8 percent, about the same levels that led Greece to take a bailout a few months earlier.
