The financial crisis and the free market cure :
Allison, John A.
The financial crisis and the free market cure : why pure capitalism is the world economy's only hope / John A. Allison. - New York : McGraw-Hill, c2013. - viii, 278p. ; 24 cm.
"How destructive banking reform is killing the economy"--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fundamental themes -- What happened? -- Government monetary policy: the Fed as the primary cause -- FDIC insurance: the background cause -- Government housing policy: the proximate cause -- The essential role of banks in a complex economy: the liquidity challenge -- The residential real-estate-market bubble and financial-market stress -- Failure of the rating agencies: the subprime mortgage market and its impact on capital markets -- Pick-a-payment mortgages: a toxic product of FDIC insurance -- How Freddie and Fannie grew to dominate the home mortgage lending business -- Fair-value accounting and wealth destruction -- Derivatives and shadow banking: a misunderstanding -- The myth that "deregulation" caused the financial crisis -- How the SEC made matters worse -- Market corrections are necessary, but panics are destructive and avoidable -- TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) -- What we could have--and should have--done -- The cure for the banking industry: systematically move toward pure capitalism -- Some political cures: government policy -- Our short-term path and how to end unemployment -- The deepest cause is philosophical -- The cure is also philosophical -- How the United States could go broke -- The need for principled action.
The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure argues against current financial regulations and proposes a cure to the economy's ills. John A. Allison presents the groundbreaking theory that capitalism is the only economic-political system that allows freedom of thought and rewards those who offer the most productive ideas, products, and services.
9780071806770
Capitalism.
Financial crises--United States.
Financial services industry--Law and legislation--United States.
HB501 / .A416 2013
330.12/20973
The financial crisis and the free market cure : why pure capitalism is the world economy's only hope / John A. Allison. - New York : McGraw-Hill, c2013. - viii, 278p. ; 24 cm.
"How destructive banking reform is killing the economy"--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fundamental themes -- What happened? -- Government monetary policy: the Fed as the primary cause -- FDIC insurance: the background cause -- Government housing policy: the proximate cause -- The essential role of banks in a complex economy: the liquidity challenge -- The residential real-estate-market bubble and financial-market stress -- Failure of the rating agencies: the subprime mortgage market and its impact on capital markets -- Pick-a-payment mortgages: a toxic product of FDIC insurance -- How Freddie and Fannie grew to dominate the home mortgage lending business -- Fair-value accounting and wealth destruction -- Derivatives and shadow banking: a misunderstanding -- The myth that "deregulation" caused the financial crisis -- How the SEC made matters worse -- Market corrections are necessary, but panics are destructive and avoidable -- TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) -- What we could have--and should have--done -- The cure for the banking industry: systematically move toward pure capitalism -- Some political cures: government policy -- Our short-term path and how to end unemployment -- The deepest cause is philosophical -- The cure is also philosophical -- How the United States could go broke -- The need for principled action.
The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure argues against current financial regulations and proposes a cure to the economy's ills. John A. Allison presents the groundbreaking theory that capitalism is the only economic-political system that allows freedom of thought and rewards those who offer the most productive ideas, products, and services.
9780071806770
Capitalism.
Financial crises--United States.
Financial services industry--Law and legislation--United States.
HB501 / .A416 2013
330.12/20973