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Product Description: Can knowing how a financial crisis happened keep it from happening again? Sheila Bair, the former chairman of the FDIC, explains how the Great Recession impacted families on a personal level in this easy-to-understand book âthat puts a human face on the economic crisisâ (School Library Journal)...read more
Hardcover:
9781481400855 | Simon & Schuster, April 14, 2015, cover price $17.99
Paperback:
9781481400862 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, April 12, 2016), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Can knowing how a financial crisis happened keep it from happening again?
School and Library:
9780807570944 | Albert Whitman & Co, March 30, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Gramps teaches his twin grandsons the value of saving money when he pays each a dollar a week to help with summer chores, then matches every dollar each boy saves.
Library:
9781621278900 | Weigl Pub Inc, July 30, 2013, cover price $34.28 | About this edition: Rock and Brock may be twins, but they are as different as two twins can be.
The former FDIC Chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the greatest crisis the US has faced since the Great Depression.âWhen Sheila Bair took over as head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2006, the agency was probably better known for the âFDICâ logo on the doors of the nationâs banks than for anything it did. Now Bair is at the center of the financial crisis, speeding the takeover of failing banks and pressing the mortgage industry to ease loan terms . . . winning praise from Democrats and Republicans.â âBLOOMBERG NEWS, October 3, 2008 Sheila Bair is widely acknowledged in government circles and the media as one of the first people to identify and accurately assess the subprime crisis. Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, she witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 becameâalong with Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithnerâone of the key players trying to repair the damage to our economy. Bull by the Horns is her remarkable and refreshingly honest account of that contentious time and the struggle for reform that followed and continues to this day. A level-headed, pragmatic figure with a clear focus on serving the public good, Bair was often one of the few women in the room during heated discussions about the economy. Despite her years of experience and her determination to rein in the private banks and Wall Street, she frequently found herself at odds with Geithner. She is withering in her assessment of some of Wall Streetâs finest, and her narrative of Citibankâs attempted takeover of Wachovia is a stinging indictment of how regulators and the banks worked against the public interest at times to serve their own needs. Bair is steadfast in her belief that the American public needs to fully understand the crisis in order to bring it to an end. Critical of the bank bailouts and the Can. $29.99 lax regulation that led to the economic crash, she provides a sober analysis as well as a practical plan for how we should move forward. She helps clear away the myths and half-truths about how we ran our economic engine into the ditch and tells us how we can help get our financial and regulatory systems back on track. As The New Yorker said, âBair has consistently stood out for her skepticism of Wall Street and for her eagerness to confront the big banks. A Kansas Republican, she has become an unlikely hero to economic liberals, who see her as the counterweight to the more Wall Streetâcentric view often ascribed to Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretaryâ (July 6, 2009).
Hardcover:
9781451672480 | 1 edition (Free Pr, September 25, 2012), cover price $26.99 | About this edition: The former FDIC Chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the greatest crisis the US has faced since the Great Depression.
Paperback:
9781451672497 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, September 10, 2013), cover price $16.99
Product Description: Isabel's Car Wash is an AV2 media enhanced book. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks a vibrant and engaging audio reading of the text. This reading, enriched by character voices and sound effects, guides beginning readers through the story, either in print or through a fully digital presentation of the book...read more
Library:
9781619131187, titled "Isabel's Car Wa$h" | Weigl Pub Inc, August 1, 2012, cover price $34.28 | About this edition: Isabel's Car Wash is an AV2 media enhanced book.
Paperback:
9780807536537 | Albert Whitman & Co, September 1, 2011, cover price $6.99
School and Library:
9780807536520 | Albert Whitman & Co, April 30, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: To earn money to buy a doll that she wants, Isabel starts a car wash business with money invested by her friends, hoping to make a profit for everyone.
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