Inflated: how money and debt built the american dream

Americans as a whole view themselves as reasonably prudent and sober people when it comes to matters of money, reflecting the puritan roots of the earliestEuropean settlers. Yet as a community, we also seem to believe that we are entitled to a lifestyle that is well-beyond our current income, a tendency that goes back to the earliest days of the United States and particularly to get rich quick experiences ranging from the Gold Rush of the 1840s to the real estate bubble of the early 21st Century INDICE: Preface. Acknowledgments. Chapter One Free Banking and Private Money. The Bank of the United States. State Debt Defaults. The Age of Andrew Jackson. The Panic of 1837. The Gold Rush. The Rise of Bank Clearinghouses. Chapter Two Lincoln Saves a Nation by Printing Money. The Lincoln Legacy. Financing the War. Salmon Chase and Jay Cooke. Fisk s Shock Treatment. The Crisis Managers. The Latin Debt Crisis. Volcker's Apprentice: Gerald Corrigan. Reagan Reappoints Volcker. The Never-ending Crisis. Volcker Exits and Crisis Returns. FromExcess to Delusion. The Greenspan Legacy. Chapter Nine Prospects. The Growth Challenge. Growth versus Inflation. Changing Places. Triffin's Dilemma and theDollar. Notes. About the Author. Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-87514-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 15/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés