Capital Offense How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future over to Wall Street

Name: Capital Offense How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future over to Wall Street
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ISBN: 9780470520673

ISBN-10: 0470520671

ISBN-13: 9780470520673

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michael Hirsh

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Why every president from Reagan through Obama has put Wall Street before Main Street Over the last few decades, Washingtonrs"s firmly held belief that if you make investors happy, a booming economy will follow has caused an economic crisis in Asia, hardship in Latin America, and now a severe recession in America and Europe. How did the best and brightest of our time allow this to happen? Why have these disasters done nothing to change the free-market mantra of the Washington faithful? The answer has nothing to do with lobbyists and everything to do with ideology. In Capital Offense, veteran Newsweek reporter Michael Hirsh gives us a colorful narrative history of the era he calls the Age of…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 9/17/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: The Hippopotamus under the Rug



The Most Certain Man in the World



Triumph



The Stealth Ideologue



The Rise of Rubinomics



Larry and Joe



Portrait of a Contrarian



Children of the Boom



The High Tide of Hubris



The Last Guy at the Alamo



Reaganites Redux



The Canary in die Mine



The King of the Street



Last Gathering of the Faithful



Blown Away



Geithner Cleans Up (with Bernanke at His Back)



Too Big to Jail



Larry and Joe (Again)


Notes


Index