After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and Washington

After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and Washington
ISBN-10
1594032610
ISBN-13
9781594032615
Series
After the Fall
Category
History
Pages
227
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Encounter Books
Author
Nicole Gelinas

Description

Starting in the 1980s, the country's United States's carefully constructed regulatory infrastructure started to decay. Exotically Unconventionally structured companies and securities escaped the regulatory system, eventually creating a shadow financial world that operated without necessary constraints. Too often, the government treated the fragile system's occasional failures as crimes to be prosecuted and not as evidence of fissures in the civil regulatory system, but simply as crimes to be prosecuted. The financial catastrophe that started in 2007 taught us something that we had known but fo.

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