Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1451672489 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Prior to assuming her post at the FDIC, Bair served as assistant secretary for financial institutions at the US Department of the Treasury and as senior vice president for government relations of the New York Stock Exchange. She has been covered—and lauded—everywhere from The New Yorker to The Washi
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. “When Sheila Bair took over as head of the U.S. Yet beneath the froth of facts courses an epic struggle. Now Bair is at the center of the financial crisis, speeding the takeover of failing banks and pressing the mortgage industry to ease loan terms. It pits Sheila Bair and the civil servants of the FDIC on one side and Timothy Geithner on the other.” (James Galbraith)“Sheila Bair is an excellent choice as the most experienced as well as principled candidate to head the SEC or Treasury… and her outstanding book Bull by the Horns… should be required reading for the pres
Interested customer said It's hard to be humble when you're nearly perfect. Of interest to those trying to understand the crony capitalism and revolving doors which have become the strategy of our government.I found this a mildly interesting memoir of a bureaucrat's struggles to remind other bureaucrats that their function is to protect the public, not to enrich those temporarily at rest in a regulatory agency, on their way to Wall Street. What it does make clear to all who will see is that the cozy relationship between Wall Street and the regulators is not a function of which party is in power--both o. Good book about the crisis. Even better, it tells how the banks derailed reform . Best of all SHE PROPOSES GOOD SOLUTIONS Good book about the crisis. Even better, it tells how the banks derailed reform . Best of all she proposes solutions.This has three parts: - 1) an insider's view of the crisis and bailouts. This is excellent - 2) an insider's view of the reform efforts and how the banks, helped by Geithner and others, undermined the efforts at reform. - 3) proposed solutionsThe first part is very good but there isn't much that is new. There are a lot of good books about the crisis. I don't have time to read them all. This one focuses on the reg. FINANCIAL BALANCE hassel hill jr If you have limited time and want an understanding of the 2007/8 financial mess, you should read this by Blair and the one by Geitner. His belief was that the US economy could only be saved by saving Wall Street and her belief was that we should be a lot more focused on Main Street. The Obama administration basically followed his way and to a degree the recovery was slow and Wall Street bad guys were not sufficiently punished.
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 US has faced since the Great Depression.“When Sheila Bair took over as head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. A Kansas Republican, she has become an unlikely hero to economic liberals, who see her as the counterweight to the more Wall Street–centric view often ascribed to Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary” (July 6, 2009).. She helps clear away the myths and half-truths about how we ran our economic engine into the ditch and tells us how we can help get our financial and regulatory systems back on track. $29.99 lax regulation that led to the economic crash, she provides a sober analysis as well as a practical plan for how we should move forward. Bull by the Horns is her remarkable and refreshingly honest account of that contentious time and the struggle for reform that followed and continues to this day. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, she witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 became—along with Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner—one of the key players trying to repair the damage to our economy. in 2006, the agency was probably better known for the ‘FDIC’ logo on the doors of the nation’s banks than for anything it did. Now Bair is at the center