Bailout nation
Subtitle: how 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: 9780470520383
Subjects: Financial crises -- United States; Finance -- Government policy -- United States; Intervention (Federal government); United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-; United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-
Notes: Includes 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.