Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking
E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-0-470-60901-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, thetrustworthy, honest banker in the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, isdead. And so is his small-town bank, Bailey Savings &Loan. Instead, we're watching It's a Horrible Mess with Wall Street(aka the Vegas Strip) playing ever larger craps with our economyand our tax dollars.
This book, written by one of the world's most respectedeconomist, describes in lively, humorous, simple, but also deadlyserious terms the big con underlying the big game?the web ofinterconnected financial, political, and regulatory malfeasancethat culminated in financial meltdown and brought us to oureconomic knees. But it also proposes an amazingly simplysolution?Limited Purpose Banking to make Wall Street safe for MainStreet.
* This book, as well as the financial fix described within it,have received rave reviews from a veritable who's who ofpolicymakers and economics, plus five economics NobelLaureates
* Written by a leading economist whose insights on this topic areunparalleled
* Outlines the first and only proposal to fundamentally fix ourfinancial disaster for good
Jimmy Stewart Is Dead will fundamentally change the wayyou think about the economy, financial markets, and thegovernment.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1. It's a Horrible Mess.
Chapter 2. The Big Con: Financial Malfeasance, AmericanStyle.
Chapter 3. Uncle Sam's Dangerous Medicine.
Chapter 4. "This Sucker Could Go Down".
Chapter 5. Limited Purpose Banking.
Chapter 6. Getting from Here to There.
Chapter 7. What About?
Chapter 8. Conclusion.
Afterword. Fixing the Rest of Our Economic Mess.
Notes.
About the Author.
Index.