Sheila Bair

Bull by the Horns (eBook, ePUB)

Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

The former FDIC chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis.

Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, Sheila Bair witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 becamealong with Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithnerone of the key public servants trying to repair the damage to the global economy. Bull by the Horns is her remarkable and refreshingly honest account of that contentious time and the struggle for reform that followed and continues to this day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781451672503
• Artikelnr.: 37913571

Autorenporträt

Sheila Bair is the former Chairman of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation). She has been covered—and lauded—everywhere from The New Yorker to The Washington Post to The Wall Street Journal, and in 2008 and 2009 Forbes named her the second-most powerful woman in the world. Prior to assuming her post at the FDIC, Bair served as assistant secretary for financial institutions at the US Department of the Treasury and as senior vice president for government relations of the New York Stock Exchange.