Broken bargain : bankers, bailouts, and the struggle to tame Wall Street /

A history of major financial crises--and how taxpayers have been left with the bill In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Day, Kathleen Mary, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Temas:
2000-2099
Financial crises > United States > History > 21st century.
Financial crises > United States > History.
Financial institutions > Law and legislation > United States.
Bailouts (Government policy)
Renflouement (Finances)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Financial crises
Financial institutions > Law and legislation
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The danger and necessity of banks
  • 2. A cheat upon somebody
  • 3 Inc.
  • 4. The Civil War tames currency
  • 5. Sunshine Charlie
  • 6. Radio, rayon, and retail credit
  • 7. If it seems too good to be true ...
  • 8 Crash and contagion
  • 9. Tickled with poverty
  • 10. Moral hazard
  • 11. Zombie banks
  • 12. The American home : safeguard of American liberties
  • 13. Financial cocaine
  • 14. Cover-up and bailout
  • 15. Russia defaults
  • 16. The committee to save the world
  • 17. Dysfunctional oversight
  • 18. Enron : the emperor's new clothes
  • 19. Tent city
  • 20. Financial magic
  • 21. The subprime prisoner's dilemma
  • 22. Feds tell states : shut up, sit down
  • 23. A number out of the air
  • 24. Fake accounts
  • 25. Who should own a bank.

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