num_pages: 272
description: Can knowing how a financial crisis happened keep it from happening again? Sheila Bair the former chairman of the FDIC explains how the Great Recession impacted families on a personal level using language that everyone can understand.In 2008 America went through a terrible financial crisis and we are still suffering the consequences. Families lost their homes had to give up their pets and struggled to pay for food and medicine. Businesses didnt have money to buy equipment or hire and pay workers. Millions of people lost their jobs and their life savings. More than 100000 businesses went bankrupt.As the former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Sheila Bair worked to protect families during the crisis and keep their bank deposits safe. In The Bullies of Wall Street  she describes the many ways in which a broken system led families into financial trouble and also explains the decisions being made at the time by the most powerful people in the countryfrom CEOs of multinational banks to heads of government regulatory committeesthat led to the recession.
language: English
title: The Bullies of Wall Street: This Is How Greed Messed Up Our Economy
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers