The Bullies of Wall Street: This is How Greed Messed Ups Our Economy.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015. First edition of this memoir of by the former head of the FDIC. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For John- A Main Street perspective on the crisis. Hope you like it. Sheila Bair." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lucy Ruth Cummins. In 2008, America went through a terrible financial crisis, and we are still suffering the consequences. Families lost their homes, had to give up their pets, and struggled to pay for food and medicine. Businesses didn't have money to buy equipment or hire and pay workers. Millions of people lost their jobs and their life savings. More than 100,000 businesses went bankrupt. As the former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair worked to protect families during the crisis and keep their bank deposits safe. In The Bullies of Wall Street, she describes the many ways in which a broken system led families into financial trouble, and also explains the decisions being made at the time by the most powerful people in the country--from CEOs of multinational banks, to heads of government regulatory committees--that led to the recession. (Inventory #: 103497)