Justin O Brien: 2 books
Engineering a Financial Bloodbath
How Sub-Prime Securitization Destroyed the Legitimacy of Financial Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
In July 2007, the then chief executive of Citigroup, Charles Prince, captured the hubris of a market dangerously addicted to debt: “When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as music is playing, you have got to get up and dance. We're still dancing.”...
The Triumph, Tragedy and Lost Legacy of James M Landis
A Life on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
James M Landis – scholar, administrator, advocate and political adviser – is known for his seminal contribution to the creation of the modern system of market regulation in the USA. As a highly influential participant in the politics of the New Deal he drafted the statute which was to become the...