Bailout
An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
New York : Free Press, 2012.
Format: Book
Edition: First Free Press hardcover edition.
Description: xvi, 270 pages ; 24 cm
In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the £700 billion bailout fund. In vivid behind-the-scenes detail, he reveals proof of the extreme degree to which the US government officials bent over backward to serve the interests of Wall Street firms at the expense of the broader public - and at the expense of effective financial reform.
Contents:
Fraud 101 -- Hank wants to make it work -- The lapdog, the watchdog, and the junkyard dog -- I won't lie for you -- Drinking the Wall Street kool-aid -- The worst thing that happens, we go back home -- By Wall Street for Wall Street -- Foaming the runway -- The audacity of math -- The essential $7700 kitchen assistant -- Treasury's backseat driver -- Happy endings.
Subjects:
Troubled Asset Relief Program (U.S.)
Finance -- Subsidies -- United States.
Banks and banking -- Subsidies -- United States.
Corporate debt -- United States.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Rich people -- United States.
Troubled Asset Relief Program (U.S.)
Finance -- Subsidies -- United States.
Banks and banking -- Subsidies -- United States.
Corporate debt -- United States.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Rich people -- United States.
ISBN:
9781451684933 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BUSINESS Economics History Bar | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index.