Bull by the Horns, Sheila Bair
Bull by the Horns, Sheila Bair
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Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

Author: Sheila Bair

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Unabridged: 16 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/06/2013

Synopsis

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 became—along with Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner—one of the key players invested in repairing 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 Street's finest, and her narrative of Citibank's 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.

About Sheila Bair

Sheila Bair was chairperson of the FDIC from 2006 to 2011. Prior to assuming this post, Sheila served as assistant secretary for financial institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and senior vice president for government relations of the New York Stock Exchange. She is the recipient of many awards, including the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award and the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award, and Forbes magazine twice named her the second most powerful woman in the world. Sheila is a columnist for Fortune magazine. She is also the author of two books about money management for children, Isabel's Car Wash and Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Breakingviews

By Antony Currie There is one clear and simple message from “Bull by the Horns,” Sheila Bair’s account of her five years in charge of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp: financial regulators still need a good kick up the backside. Bair is not one to pull her punches - she delivers her poor opini......more

Goodreads review by Clay

Fascinating read about the 2008 housing crisis and aftermath as seen through the eyes of the then-FDIC chair. It was refreshing to see a government official that knows exactly what her job is, makes efforts to make complicated jobs under her aegis easier to do and better understood by the public, an......more

Goodreads review by Srinivas

Sheila Bair's book is simple and direct. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008 was an inherently complex affair and the responses to deal with it were equally complex and controversial. This book is user friendly and tries to demystify the arcane matter. Sheila's approach to regulation and rule......more

Goodreads review by Alvin

Solid, fascinating account of the politics and decisions made during the financial crisis from the perspective of the head of the FDIC. I thought reading this book would make me mad. It did not. It made me furious. Sheila pulls no punches and names names, including poorly managed institutions, indiv......more

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