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Bailout nation : how greed and easy money corrupted Wall Street and shook the world economy / Barry Ritholtz with Aaron Task.

By: Ritholtz, BarryContributor(s): Task, AaronMaterial type: TextTextReference number: 2009015531Publication details: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009. Description: xx, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780470520383; 0470520388Subject(s): Financial crises -- United States | Finance -- Government policy -- United States | Intervention (Federal government) | United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009 | United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009DDC classification: 332.10973 LOC classification: HB3722 | .R58 2009
Contents:
A brief history of bailouts -- The creation of the Federal Reserve, and its role in creating our bailout nation -- Pre-bailout nation : (1860-1942) -- Industrial-era bailouts (1971-1995) -- Stock market bailouts, 1987-1995 -- The irrational exuberance era (1996-1999) -- The tech wreck, 2000-2003 -- The backwards, rate-driven economy -- The mad scramble for yield -- The machinery of subprime -- A memo found in the street : Uncle Sam the enabler.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index.

A brief history of bailouts -- The creation of the Federal Reserve, and its role in creating our bailout nation -- Pre-bailout nation : (1860-1942) -- Industrial-era bailouts (1971-1995) -- Stock market bailouts, 1987-1995 -- The irrational exuberance era (1996-1999) -- The tech wreck, 2000-2003 -- The backwards, rate-driven economy -- The mad scramble for yield -- The machinery of subprime -- A memo found in the street : Uncle Sam the enabler.

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