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Cover of Eagle on the street: the SEC and Wall Street during the Reagan years

Eagle on the street: the SEC and Wall Street during the Reagan years

✍ Scribed by Steve Coll

Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
301 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1504045025

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A "spellbinding account" of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post series (The New York Times Book Review).
Described by the New York Times Book Review as "worthy of being on the same shelf" as Liar's Poker, Greed and Glory on Wall Street, and Barbarians at the Gate, this eye-opening business history explains how Washington and Wall Street cut the deals that led to a decade of greed.

For the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 1980s brought sweeping changes. Under the sway of Reaganomics and the leadership of John Shad, the SEC came down hard on insider trading but introduced wide-ranging deregulation to the stock market, which helped to both fuel the legendary bull market and sow the seeds of the 1987 crash.

Shad, a former vice-chairman of the brokerage firm EF Hutton & Company and the first Wall Street executive to lead the SEC since...

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