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Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history—books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S. Blinder, esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, held off, taking the time to understand the crisis and to think his way through to a truly comprehensive and coherent narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we can do from here—mired as we still are in its wreckage.
With bracing clarity, Blinder shows us how the U.S. financial system, which had grown far too complex for its own good—and too unregulated for the public good—experienced a perfect storm beginning in 2007. Things started unraveling when the much-chronicled housing bubble burst, but the ensuing implosion of what Blinder calls the “bond bubble” was larger and more devastating. Some people think of the financial industry as a sideshow with little relevance to the real economy—where the jobs, factories, and shops are. But finance is more like the circulatory system of the economic body: if the blood stops flowing, the body goes into cardiac arrest. When America’s financial structure crumbled, the damage proved to be not only deep, but wide. It took the crisis for the world to discover, to its horror, just how truly interconnected—and fragile—the global financial system is. Some observers argue that large global forces were the major culprits of the crisis. Blinder disagrees, arguing that the problem started in the U.S. and was pushed abroad, as complex, opaque, and overrated investment products were exported to a hungry world, which was nearly poisoned by them.
The second part of the story explains how American and international government intervention kept us from a total meltdown. Many of the U.S. government’s actions, particularly the Fed’s, were previously unimaginable. And to an amazing—and certainly misunderstood—extent, they worked. The worst did not happen. Blinder offers clear-eyed answers to the questions still before us, even if some of the choices ahead are as divisive as they are unavoidable. After the Music Stopped is an essential history that we cannot afford to forget, because one thing history teaches is that it will happen again.
/ AUS DEM INHALT: / / / PART IIT HAPPENED HERE
1What's a Nice Economy Like You Doing in a Place Like This? / PART IIIT HAPPENED HERE
2In the Beginning…
3The House of Cards
4When the Music Stopped
5From Bear to Lehman: Inconsistency Was the Hobgoblin
6The Panic of 2008 / PART IIIPICKING UP THE PIECES
7Stretching Out the TARP
8Stimulus, Stimulus, Wherefore Art Thou Stimulus?
9The Attack on the Spreads / PART IVTHE ROAD TO REFORM
10It's Broke, Let's Fix It: The Need for Financial Reform
11Watching a Sausage Being Made
12The Great Foreclosure Train Wreck
13The Backlash / PART VLOOKING AHEAD
14No Exit? Getting the Fed Back to Normal
15The Search for a Fiscal Exit
16The Big Aftershock: The European Debt Crisis
17Never Again: Legacies of the Crisis /
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Alan S. Blinder
Jahr:
2013
Verlag:
New York, NY, Penguin Press
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ISBN:
978-1-59420-530-9
2. ISBN:
1-59420-530-2
Beschreibung:
1. publ., XIX, 476 S. : graph. Darst.
Schlagwörter:
Finanzkrise, USA, Amerika (USA), EEUU (Abkürzung), Estados Unidos de America, Etats Unis, Etats-Unis, Finanzmarkt / Krise, Finanzmarktkrise, Kreditmarktkrise, Kreditwesen / Krise, Meiguo, Nordamerika <USA>, US (Abkürzung), United States, United States of America, Vereinigte Staaten, Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika
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Sprache:
Englisch
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Literaturverz. S. [455] - 462
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