Market rules : bankers, presidents, and the origins of the Great Recession / Mark H. Rose.

Author: Rose, Mark H., 1942- author.

ImprintPhiladelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

Descriptionxiii, 258 pages ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: politics and the markets they made -- Deregulation before deregulation: John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and James Saxon -- Supermarket banks: Richard Nixon and Donald Regan -- Rescuing banks through growth: Walter Wriston and Citicorp -- A Marine in banker's clothing: Hugh McColl and North Carolina National Bank -- Full-service banks: Bill Clinton and Sandy Weill -- God's work in finance: Ken Lewis, Charles Prince, Richard Fuld, and Henry Paulson -- Reregulating the regulators: Barrack Obama and Timothy Geithner -- Epilogue: another round of bank politics.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Market Rules explains in accessible language how federal laws, regulatory rulings, and bankers' decisions shaped the financial industry as it existed at the time of the 2008 financial crisis.

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