Fed up : an insider's take on why the Federal Reserve is bad for America / Danielle DiMartino Booth.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Portfolio/Penguin, c2017Description: viii, 326 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780735211650
- 0735211655
- 332.1/10973 23
- HG2563 .B586 2017
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Bedford Public Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 332.11 BOO | Available | 32500001719138 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the early 2000s, a Wall Street escapee writing a financial column for the Dallas Morning News, Booth attracted attention for her criticism of the Fed's low interest rate policies and her warnings about the housing market. Nobody was more surprised when the head of the Dallas Federal Reserve offered her a job as a financial analyst. Figuring she could have more of an impact on Fed policies from inside, she also observed how the Fed abdicated its responsibility to the people both before and after the financial crisis and how nobody within the Fed seems to have learned from the experience.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-317) and index.
An insider exposé of the Federal Reserve's toxic culture describes the author's unexpected job offer as a financial analyst and advisor and her witness to leadership's indifference to taxpayer hardships in favor of Wall Street interests.