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The Bullies of Wall Street: This Is How Greed Messed Up Our Economy

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The Bullies of Wall Street: This Is How Greed Messed Up Our Economy

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 in this easy-to-understand book â€œthat puts a human face on the economic crisisâ€ (School Library Journal).

In 2008, America went through a terrible financial crisis, and we are still suffering the consequences. Families lost their homes and struggled to pay for food and medicine. Businesses didnâ€™t have money to buy equipment or hire and pay workers. Millions of people lost their jobs and their life savings. More than 100,000 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 countryâ€”from CEOs of multinational banks, to heads of government regulatory committeesâ€”that led to the recession.

Country	USA
Author	Sheila Bair
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781481400879
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
NumberOfPages	273
PublicationDate	2015-04-14
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ReleaseDate	2015-04-14
Studio	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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