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Summary of 13 Bankers. Simon Johnson and James Kwak. Pantheon Books, 2010 From the book: 13 BANKERS by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. Protecting Bankers from the Pitchforks. Blame for the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 belongs squarely to Wall Street and the large, powerful banks that took foolish risks and brought down the world economy. Yet, when 13 heads of the . s dominant banks visited newly elected President Barack Obama in March 2009, they heard little tough talk.

It was clear that the thirteen bankers needed the government. Only massive government intervention, in the form of direct investments of taxpayer money, government guarantees for multiple markets, practically unlimited emergency lending by the Federal Reserve, and historically low interest rates, had prevented their banks from following Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Washington Mutual, and Wachovia into bankruptcy or acquisition in extremis. But why did the government need the bankers? Advertisement. Continue reading the main story.

financial history within the context of previous showdowns. As the authors insist, the choice that America faces is stark: whether Washington will accede to the vested interests of an unbridled financial sector that runs up profits in good years and dumps its losses on taxpayers in lean years, or reform through stringent regulation the banking system as first and foremost an engine of economic growth.

magna cum laude in 1990 from Harvard University and his P. on French intellectual history in 1997 from the University of California, Berkeley (1997)

Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963) is a British American economist. He is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He has held a wide variety of academic and policy-related positions, including Professor of Economics at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business He is author, with James Kwak, of the 2010 book 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Take.

financial history within the context of previous showdowns between American democracy and Big Finance. If the wads of money you’re stuffed into your mattress for safekeeping don’t keep you up at night, 13 Bankers will. Our future depends on fixing our financial system; 13 Bankers shows us how. (Arianna Huffington).

13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes.

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Simon Johnson and James Kwak are angry. They're tired of excuses made by politicians and Wall Street execs. They're tired of people continuing the cycle of allowing others to control more and more of our wealth without any idea of how to do it. They're tired of ignorance. White House Burning begins with the story of Alexander Hamilton and his efforts to save the country during the American Revolution and after.