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Borrowed time : two centuries of booms, busts, and bailouts at Citi / James Freeman and Vern McKinley.
Lippincott Library HG2613.N54 C72245 2018
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, James (Journalist), author.
- McKinley, Vern, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bailouts (Government policy).
- Bank failures.
- United States.
- Banks and banking--United States.
- Banks and banking.
- Bank failures--United States--Prevention.
- Bailouts (Government policy)--United States.
- Financial crises--United States.
- Financial crises.
- Citigroup (Firm).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
- Summary:
- "The alarming, untold story of Citigroup--one of the largest financial institutions in the world--from its founding in 1812 to its role in the 2008 financial crisis, and the many near-death experiences in between." -- From Amazon summary.
- Contents:
- A bank for the Treasury Secretary
- When failure was allowed (because government wasn't big enough to help)
- City of instability
- Astor to the rescue
- Taylor's bank in an age of panics
- The Rockefeller bank
- A political "big shot"
- A City Banker helps create the Fed
- "Our friendly monster" goes global
- "Sunshine Charlie" doubles down on sugar
- Mitchell and the mania
- Did City Bank cause the crash?
- Bank for the United States
- Walter Wriston and the culture of risk
- Not that big, but too big to fail?
- When countries fail
- The banker who "never made a loan"
- Just another perfect storm
- Creating the next crisis
- The man who knew too little
- "Save Citigroup at all costs"
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-352) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Freeman, James (Journalist). Borrowed time.
- ISBN:
- 9780062669872
- 0062669877
- OCLC:
- 1028607879
- Publisher Number:
- 99977421806
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