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Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts
January 10, 2012
by Vern McKinley

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Independent Institute (January 10, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1598130498
ISBN-13: 978-1598130492

With information obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, Vern McKinley disproves the claim that federal financial regulators and politicians prevented a more severe financial crisis and argues that reining in federal regulators is a necessary step toward truly promoting the safety and soundness of the financial system.

During the recent financial crisis no issue has aroused more passion than financial institution bailouts. The standard rationale for the bailouts has been one of necessity and fear: federal regulatory agencies must have more authority in order to respond to the crisis, or else the public will face terrible consequences. But does this rationale hold up to close inspection?

In Financing Failure, Vern McKinley approaches the topic by examining the policy decisions behind the bailouts and by showing their connection to previous government interventions. He brings under scrutiny the policy decisions made by the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC during the crisis of the 2000s and links them to policies that go back as far as the 1930s. This history of bailouts reveals that the genesis of financial crisis is government policy, be it the mismanagement of monetary policy during the 1930s or the political push to expand homeownership that helped cause the 2000s crisis.

The nation’s federal financial regulators and the politicians claim to have saved the American economy. In truth they have done everything within their power to expand their own influence — often far out of view from the public and media. Instead of openly explaining their actions, the bailout agencies have attempted to prevent the public from reviewing their decision-making, often at tremendous cost to taxpayers. McKinley’s painstakingly researched and clear-headed analysis of bailouts and government intervention shows that the American public has accepted too many official pronouncements at face value, and that reining in the federal regulators is a necessary step toward truly promoting the safety and soundness of the financial system.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Financial Scorecard
Introduction

1. Bear Stearns-The Original Sin
2. Bailouts 101
3. The Depression of the 1930s and the Interventions
4. After the Depression
5. 1980s Financial Crisis and the Interventions
6. After the 1980s Financial Crisis
7. The 2000s Crisis: The Fed and Treasury Intervene
8. The 2000s Crisis: The FDIC Intervenes
9. The 2000s Crisis: TARP
10. Will the Dodd-Frank Changes Stop the Bailouts?
11. The Assessment of the History

Appendix The Freedom of Information Act Lawsuits
Index
About the Author

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