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

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

by LaurenceJ.Kotlikoff (Author)

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. This book, as well as the financial fix described within it, have received rave reviews from a veritable who's who of policymakers and economics, plus five economics Nobel Laureates Written by a leading economist whose insights on this topic are unparalleled Outlines the first and only proposal to fundamentally fix our financial disaster for good Jimmy Stewart Is Dead will fundamentally change the way you think about the economy, financial markets, and the government.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 242
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 26 Feb 2010

ISBN 10: 0470581557
ISBN 13: 9780470581551

Media Reviews
'...a thought-provoking new book...' (Financial Times, April 2010). '[A] detailed description of what he sees as the banking system of the future...a plausible roadmap for how to get there...' (Financial World, July/August 2010). '[Kotlikoff's] arguments for protecting deposits by banning banks from lending money not matched in cash reserves is compelling.' (The Independent, February 2010). 'Kotlikoff's work is worth a read...' (The Observer, March 2010).
Author Bio
LAURENCE J. KOTLIKOFF is a William Fairfield Warren Professor of Economics at Boston University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Fellow of the Econometric Society, and former Senior Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers. Coauthor of The Coming Generational Storm and Spend 'Til the End and author of The Healthcare Fix, Kotlikoff has been published extensively in the nation's leading newspapers, magazines, and financial web sites on financial reform, taxes, saving, growth, deficits, Social Security, healthcare, pensions, and personal finance.