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Jimmy Stewart Is Dead

Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking
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Jimmy Stewart Is Dead by Laurence J. Kotlikoff explores the financial system's complexities and suggests innovative solutions to prevent future economic crises. The book critiques traditional banking methods and proposes limited-purpose banking as a safer alternative. Through detailed analysis, it challenges existing financial practices, aiming to reshape how we think about banking and investment in the modern world.
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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.

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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 economists, describes in lively, humorous, simple, but also deadly serious terms the big con underlying the big gameβ€”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 simple solutionβ€”Limited Purpose Banking to make Wall Street safe for Main Street.

  • This book, as well as the financial fix described within it, has received rave reviews from a veritable who's who of policymakers and economists, 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118011331

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 April 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 142.0mm

Height: 223.0mm

Weight: 308g

Pages: 272

About the Author

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 , and Bloomberg columnist, Kotlikoff publishes extensively in the nation's leading newspapers, magazines, and financial websites on financial reform, taxes, saving, growth, deficits, Social Security, healthcare, pensions, and personal finance.

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