Ebook: The seven sins of Wall Street : big banks, their Washington lackeys, and the next financial crisis
Author: Ivry Bob
- Tags: Finance -- United States., Banks and banking -- United States., Financial crises -- United States., United States -- Economic policy., BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance., Banks and banking., Economic policy., Finance., Financial crises., United States.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- City: Array
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing?and should make us not just afraid but very afraid?are the shenanigans of the biggest banks since the crisis. Bob Ivry passionately, eloquently, and convincingly details the operatic ineptitude of America's best-compensated executivesRead more...
Abstract: We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing?and should make us not just afraid but very afraid?are the shenanigans of the biggest banks since the crisis. Bob Ivry passionately, eloquently, and convincingly details the operatic ineptitude of America's best-compensated executives and the ways the government kowtows to what it mistakenly imagines is their competence and success. Ivry shows that the only thing that has changed since the meltdown is how too