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Bull by the horns : fighting to save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from itself / Sheila Bair. |
| Authors: | Bair, Sheila. |
| Call number: | 330.973 BAI |
| Publisher: | New York, NY : Free Press, 2012. |
| Publication date: | 2012. |
| Subject: |
Financial crises -- United States.
Subprime mortgage loans -- United States. Stock exchanges -- United States. United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009- |
| Title: | Bull by the horns : fighting to save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from itself / Sheila Bair. |
| Edition: | 1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
| Physical description: | viii, 415, [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: | The Golden Age of banking -- Turning the titanic -- The fight over Basel II -- The skunk at the garden party -- Subprime is "contained" -- Stepping over a dollar to pick up a nickel : helping home owners, round one -- The audacity of that woman -- The Wachovia blindside -- Bailing out the boneheads -- Doubling down on Citi : bailout number two -- Helping home owners, round two -- Obama's election : the more thing change-- -- Helping home owners, round three -- The $100 billion club -- The care and feeding of Citigroup : bailout number three -- Finally saying no -- Never again -- It's all about the compensation -- The Senate's Orwellian debate -- Dodd-Frank implementation : the final stretch (or so I thought) -- Robo-signing erupts -- The return to Basel -- Too small to save -- Squinting in the public spotlight -- Farewell to the FDIC -- How Main Street can tame Wall Street -- It could have been different. |
| Summary note: | The former FDIC Chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the greatest crisis the U.S. has faced since the Great Depression. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-388) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781451672480 : 1451672489 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1397969 |
| Bib No.: | 1397969 |
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