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Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking

Full title: Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking
ISBN: 9781118011331
ISBN 10: 1118011333
Authors: Kotlikoff, Laurence J.
Publisher: Wiley
Edition: 1
Num. pages: 272
Binding: Paperback
Language: en
Published on: 2011

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Synopsis

Discover how the global financial plague is poised to return, and what can be done to stop it

This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, the trustworthy, honest banker in the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, is dead.'And so is his small-town bank, Bailey Savings & Loan. Instead, we're watching It's a Horrible Mess with Wall Street (aka the Vegas Strip) playing ever larger craps with our economy and our tax dollars.

This book, written by one of the world's most respected economist, describes in lively, humorous, simple, but also deadly serious terms the big con underlying the big game the web of interconnected financial, political, and regulatory malfeasance that culminated in financial meltdown and brought us to our economic knees. But it also proposes an amazingly simply solution. Limited Purpose Banking to make Wall Street safe for Main Street.

Jimmy Stewart Is Dead will fundamentally change the way you think about the economy, financial markets, and the government.