Bailout nation
Subtitle: how greed and easy money corrupted Wall Street and shook the world economy
By: Barry Ritholtz with Aaron Task
Contributors: Task, Aaron
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780470596326
Notes: "With new post-crisis update" -- Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: A brief history of bailouts; title: The creation of the Federal Reserve, and its role in creating our bailout nation; title: Pre-bailout nation : (1860-1942); title: Industrial-era bailouts (1971-1995); title: Stock market bailouts, 1987-1995; title: The irrational exuberance era (1996-1999); title: The tech wreck, 2000-2003; title: The backwards, rate-driven economy; title: The mad scramble for yield; title: The machinery of subprime; title: A memo found in the street : Uncle Sam the enabler; title: Radical deregulation, nonfeasance; title: Strange connections, unintended consequences; title: Moral hazard; title: 2008 : suicide by democracy; title: The fall of Bear Stearns; title: Dot-com penis envy; title: Year of the bailout : the notorious AIG; title: Year of the bailout : too big to succeed?; title: Casting blame; title: Misplaced fault; title: The virtues of foreclosure; title: Casino capitalism; title: Advice to a new president.