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100 1 _aStockman, David A.
245 1 4 _aThe great deformation :
_bthe corruption of capitalism in America
_c/ David A. Stockman
250 _aFirst ed
260 _aNew York
_b: PublicAffairs Books
_c, 2013
300 _a743 pages
_c; 25 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _a The Blackberry Panic of 2008. Paulson's folly : the needless rescue of AIG and Wall Street ; False legends of dark ATMs and failing banks ; Days of crony capitalist plunder -- The Reagan era revisited : false narratives of our times. The Reagan revolution : repudiations and deformations ; Triumph of the warfare state : how the budget battle was lost ; Triumph of the welfare state : how the GOP anti-tax religion was born ; Why the chickens didn't come home to roost : the Nixon abomination of August 1971 -- New Deal legends and the twilight of sound money. New Deal myths of recovery ; The New Deal's true legacy : crony capitalism and fiscal demise ; War finance and the twilight of sound money ; Eisenhower's defense minimum and the last age of fiscal rectitude ; The American empire and the end of sound money ; Milton Friedman's folly : rise of the t-bill standard -- The age of bubble finance. Pork bellies, floating money, and the rise of speculative finance ; Greenspan 2.0 ; Bull market culture and the delusion of quick riches ; Serial bubbles ; The great deformation of capital markets : how Wall Street got huge ; From Washington to Wall Street : roots of the great housing deformation ; How the Fed brought the gambling mania to America's neighborhoods ; The great financial engineering binge ; The great raid on corporate cash ; The rant that shook the Eccles Building : how the Fed got Cramer'd ; When giant LBOs strip-mined the land ; Deals gone wild : rise of the debt zombies ; Bonfires of debt and the road not taken -- Sundown in America : the end of free markets and democracy. Willard M. Romney and the Truman show of bubble finance ; Bonfires of folly : Bernanke's false depression call and the 800 billion Obama stimulus ; Obama's green energy capers : crony capitalist larceny ; The end of free markets : the rampages of crony capitalism in the auto belt ; No recovery on Main Street ; The Bernanke bubble : last gift to the 1 percent ; Sundown in America : the state-wreck ahead ; Another road that could be taken.
520 _aIn this revisionist history of the American state, former Reagan budget director and bestselling author David Stockman shows where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored. He argues that Washington - and especially the Federal Reserve - have fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts. These policies have converged to bloat the welfare state, perpetuate the military-industrial complex, deplete the revenue base, fuel new financial bubbles, favor Wall Street with cheap money, rig stock and bond markets, crush Main Street savers, and punish family budgets with soaring food and energy costs.
546 _aEnglish.
650 4 _aGovernment spending policy
_z-United States
650 4 _aPolitical corruption
_x-Economic aspects
_z-United States
650 4 _aFinancial crises
_z-United States
_y-21st century
650 4 _aFinance
_x-United States
650 4 _aFinancial institutions
_x-Government policy
_z-United States
651 4 _aUnited States
_x-Economic policy
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