Bailout :
by Barofsky, Neil M. frey50
Published by : Free Press, (New York :) , 2012 Physical details: 270 p. Includes index. cm. ISBN:9781451684933 (alk. paper); 1451684932 (alk. paper); 9781451684940 (ebook); 1451684940 (ebook).| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fraud 101 -- Hank wants to make it work -- The lapdog, the watchdog, and the junkyard dog -- I won't lie for you -- Drinking the Wall Street kool-aid -- The worst thing that happens, we go back home -- By Wall Street for Wall Street -- Foaming the runway -- The audacity of math -- The essential $7700 kitchen assistant -- Treasury's backseat driver -- Too big to succeed.
In this bracing, page turning account of the stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 trillion TARP bailout fund. In vivid behind the scenes detail, he reveals proof of the extreme degree to which our government officials bent over backward to serve the interest of Wall Street firms at the expense of the broader public - and at the expense of effective financial reform.