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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aJohnson, Simon
245			_a13 BANKERS _b: Wall street takeover and the next financial meltdown
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260			_aNew York _bVintage _c2010
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500			_aIn spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.
505			_aIntroduction : 13 bankers Thomas Jefferson and the financial aristocracy Other people's oligarchs Wall Street rising : 1980- "Greed is good" : the takeover The best deal ever Too big to fail The American oligarchy : six banks
650			_aBanks and Banking - United States
650			_aBank failures - United States
650			_aFinance - United States
650			_aGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
700			_aKwak, James
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