13 Bankers

13 Bankers
Title 13 Bankers PDF eBook
Author Simon Johnson
Publisher Vintage
Pages 338
Release 2010-03-30
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0307379221

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In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.

13 Bankers

13 Bankers
Title 13 Bankers PDF eBook
Author Simon Johnson
Publisher Vintage
Pages 322
Release 2010-03-30
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0307379221

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In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.

Lords of Finance

Lords of Finance
Title Lords of Finance PDF eBook
Author Liaquat Ahamed
Publisher Penguin
Pages 584
Release 2009
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781594201820

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Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.

13 Bankers

13 Bankers
Title 13 Bankers PDF eBook
Author Simon Johnson
Publisher Vintage
Pages 338
Release 2011-01-11
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 030747660X

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In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.

Bankers and Empire

Bankers and Empire
Title Bankers and Empire PDF eBook
Author Peter James Hudson
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 370
Release 2017-04-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 022645925X

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From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism—but they also set the model for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean, the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers’ racial views and prejudices. Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks’ experimental practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and, eventually, literal erasure from the archives.

The Great Recession

The Great Recession
Title The Great Recession PDF eBook
Author Jacob Braude
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 393
Release 2013
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0262018349

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Here, experts assess the role of central banks in responding to the recent financial crisis and in preventing future crises. The contributors focus on monetary policy, the new area of macroprudential policy, and issues of exchange rates, capital flows, and banking and financial markets.

The Invisible Bankers

The Invisible Bankers
Title The Invisible Bankers PDF eBook
Author Andrew P. Tobias
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Pages 340
Release 1982
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780671228491

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