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Held Hostage: How The Banking Sector Has Distorted Financial Regulation And Destroyed Technological Progress, Aaron Greenspan
Held Hostage: How The Banking Sector Has Distorted Financial Regulation And Destroyed Technological Progress, Aaron Greenspan
Aaron Greenspan
In 2008, a global financial crisis second only to the Great Depression shed light on the utterly dysfunctional system of financial regulation governing the United States. A cacophony of laws and agencies, charged with regulating retail and investment banks, ultimately failed to prevent (and ultimately accelerated) an epic economic disaster that required enormous taxpayer bailouts of private enterprise, sunk two investment banks (Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns), imploded an enormous insurance provider (A.I.G.), leveled the American auto industry (General Motors and Chrysler), and destroyed the student loan and mortgage industries, among many, many others. Drafted quickly amidst the wreckage, the …