When Wall Street Met Main Street
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Author | : Julia C. Ott |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0674061217 |
The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. How did financial markets and institutions-commonly perceived as marginal and elitist at the beginning of the twentieth century-come to be seen as the bedrock of American capitalism? How did stock investment-once considered disreputable and dangerous-first become a mass practice? Julia Ott tells the story of how, between the rise of giant industrial corporations and the Crash of 1929, the federal government, corporations, and financial institutions campaigned to universalize investment, with the goal of providing individual investors with a stake in the economy and the nation. As these distributors of stocks and bonds established a broad, national market for financial securities, they debated the distribution of economic power, the proper role of government, and the meaning of citizenship under modern capitalism. By 1929, the incidence of stock ownership had risen to engulf one quarter of American households in the looming financial disaster. Accordingly, the federal government assumed responsibility for protecting citizen-investors by regulating the financial securities markets. By recovering the forgotten history of this initial phase of mass investment and the issues surrounding it, Ott enriches and enlightens contemporary debates over economic reform.
Author | : Julia C. Ott |
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Release | : 2010 |
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Ldquo;When Wall Street met Main Streetrdquo; recovers the lost history of the American investor and locates the origins of conservative belief in the ability of laissez-faire financial markets to provide economic security and justice for all. Bond and stock marketing by the federal government, corporations, and the financial industry is analyzed alongside emerging investor-centered theories of political economy and the relevant debates over economic reform. As early twentieth century securities marketers and their ideological allies promoted investment, they wrestled with the meaning of citizenship and democracy under industrial corporate capitalism. The ideas and institutions examined in this study endured the Crash of 1929, shaping the parameters of New Deal securities market regulation and sustaining opposition to modern liberalism until the present day.
Author | : Julia C. Ott |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2011-06-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0674050657 |
The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. How did financial markets and institutions-commonly perceived as marginal and elitist at the beginning of the twentieth century-come to be seen as the bedrock of American capitalism? How did stock investment-once considered disreputable and dangerous-first become a mass practice? Julia Ott tells the story of how, between the rise of giant industrial corporations and the Crash of 1929, the federal government, corporations, and financial institutions campaigned to universalize investment, with the goal of providing individual investors with a stake in the economy and the nation. As these distributors of stocks and bonds established a broad, national market for financial securities, they debated the distribution of economic power, the proper role of government, and the meaning of citizenship under modern capitalism. By 1929, the incidence of stock ownership had risen to engulf one quarter of American households in the looming financial disaster. Accordingly, the federal government assumed responsibility for protecting citizen-investors by regulating the financial securities markets. By recovering the forgotten history of this initial phase of mass investment and the issues surrounding it, Ott enriches and enlightens contemporary debates over economic reform.
Author | : Julia Cathleen Ott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780549059127 |
As a rhetorical figure, the small investor first appeared in prewar economic policy debates. During the First World War, the federal government's mass bond drives encouraged new, positive ways of thinking about the relationship between investment and democracy. These War Loan campaigns urged Americans to incorporate financial securities ownership into their understandings of citizenship and nation. Many anticipated that widespread ownership of federal debt might transform postwar American society and government.
Author | : Neil Barofsky |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2013-02-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451684959 |
Includes a new foreword to the paperback edition.
Author | : Sheila Bair |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1451672497 |
The former FDIC Chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the greatest crisis the U.S. has faced since the Great Depression.
Author | : Arthur Levitt |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2002-10-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0375422358 |
In Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt--Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission for eight years under President Clinton--provides the best kind of insider information: the kind that can help honest, small investors protect themselves from the deliberately confusing ways of Wall Street. At a time when investor confidence in Wall Street and corporate America is at an historic low, when many are seriously questioning whether or not they should continue to invest, Levitt offers the benefits of his own experience, both on Wall Street and as its chief regulator. His straight talk about the ways of stockbrokers (they are salesmen, plain and simple), corporate financial statements (the truth is often hidden), mutual fund managers (remember who they really work for), and other aspects of the business will help to arm everyone with the tools they need to protect—and enhance—their financial future.
Author | : Edwin J. Perkins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1999-04-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521630290 |
A 1999 biography of Charles Merrill, the founder of the world's largest brokerage and investment firm.
Author | : Sinclair Lewis |
Publisher | : First Avenue Editions TM |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1728468884 |
Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.
Author | : Sheila Bair |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-04-14 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1481400878 |
Can knowing how a financial crisis happened keep it from happening again? Sheila Bair, the former chairman of the FDIC, explains how the Great Recession impacted families on a personal level in this easy-to-understand book “that puts a human face on the economic crisis” (School Library Journal). In 2008, America went through a terrible financial crisis, and we are still suffering the consequences. Families lost their homes and struggled to pay for food and medicine. Businesses didn’t have money to buy equipment or hire and pay workers. Millions of people lost their jobs and their life savings. More than 100,000 businesses went bankrupt. As the former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair worked to protect families during the crisis and keep their bank deposits safe. In The Bullies of Wall Street, she describes the many ways in which a broken system led families into financial trouble, and also explains the decisions being made at the time by the most powerful people in the country—from CEOs of multinational banks, to heads of government regulatory committees—that led to the recession.