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The Seven Sins of Wall Street: Big Banks, their Washington Lackeys, and the Next Financial Crisis

✍ Scribed by Ivry, Bob

Book ID: 109069868
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Tongue: English
Weight: 373 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781610393669

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✦ Synopsis

"My daughter called me from school one day and said, Dad, what's a financial crisis?' And without trying to be funny, I said, It's something that happens every five to seven years.'"
--Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, January 13, 2010
We called it a financial crisis, but what happened in 2008 was really a leveraged buyout of the United States. What the political-financial types did in the months and years after the crisis was engineer a closed loop that never touched the muddy ground or rippled the clothing of an actual person. Wall Street would originate the mortgages and Washington would buy them.
While it's undoubtedly true that many, many Americans had a hand in pushing the U.S. economy to the brink of ruin in 2008, only the bankers and their algorithm-obsessed shadows got or stayed rich with the help of their government in the years following. There was nothing in the rulebook to prohibit Washington from funneling cash to strapped homeowners rather...

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