Posted on: June 25, 2010 at 10:21 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great history lesson on government bailouts
Great book on helping me understand how we got to the bailout mess we are in and the total incompetence of financial CEOs and government officals. Read more
What’s a good way to determine whether a book like this one is telling the unbiased truth? If the book is not cited, referenced, or quoted by either Shawn Hannity or Keith… Read more
Published 2 months ago by E. H. Miller
Best Book on the Wall Street/Banking Crisis and Entertaining
I have read several books on the economic crisis that has gripped the country over the past 3-4 years and I found this book to be highly readable, informative but entertaining… Read more
If you are like me, you may have once thought that the core of our bank bail out predicaments was a small percentage of unscrupulous lenders and uneducated home buyers… Read more
Greed begets greed. Bailouts socialize losses, handing a free lunch to incompetent, lazy, gluttonous executives, all paid-for by the taxpayer, facilitated by asleep-at-the-wheel… Read more
Published 3 months ago by Abhinav Agarwal
A Brilliant Book by Someone Who Knows
Barry Ritholtz has written a must read book (assuming you’re interested in how we got in the pickle we’re in) called Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street… Read more
Barry Ritholtz has written a thorough, well-researched study of the Wall Street Bailout.
He provides some history of bailouts such as the Lockheed and Chrysler bailouts… Read more
After reading and thoroughly enjoying the book, I want to encourage others, and especially those of us with little Economics/Finance background to give Mr. Read more
For anyone who wants to understand how a financial crisis of such mammoth proportions could have occurred, this is the book to read. It is a page turner. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Daniel A. Silverstein
