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Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself Kindle Edition

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“When Sheila Bair took over as head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2006, the agency was probably better known for the ‘FDIC’ logo on the doors of the nation’s banks than for anything it did. Now Bair is at the center of the financial crisis, speeding the takeover of failing banks and pressing the mortgage industry to ease loan terms. . . . winning praise from Democrats and Republicans.” (Bloomberg News )

“The FDIC’s influence has grown in the past year because of Ms. Bair’s willingness to challenge her peers, as well as her agency's central role responding to the financial crisis. Ms. Bair warned about the housing crisis before many of her colleagues.” (The Wall Street Journal)

“Bair is everything you'd want in a public servant: thoughtful, practical, independent-minded—a straight shooter with political savvy who can manage the details of policy without losing sight of the big picture. She's no grandstander, but she isn't shy about going public with concerns if she thinks it will help her inside game. She never forgets that her most important constituency isn't the thousands of banks she regulates but the millions of Americans who use them.” (Steven Pearlstein Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post columnist)

“During the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, Sheila Bair has been the little guy's protector in chief.” (Time Magazine)

“A crisp, telling and often funny narrative of the 2008 meltdown.” (John Wasik Forbes)

"Bull By the Horns is the story of financial calamity seen from the perspective of this public servant, rendered from detailed notes. We learn with whom she met, what was said, what decisions taken, and how things turned out….This is a book for aficionados of infuriating detail.
Yet beneath the froth of facts courses an epic struggle. It pits Sheila Bair and the civil servants of the FDIC on one side and [Timothy Geithner] on the other.” (James Galbraith )

“A useful, corrective addition to the already extensive literature on the crisis.” (Foreign Affairs)

About the Author

Sheila Bair is the former Chairman of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation). She has been covered—and lauded—everywhere from The New Yorker to The Washington Post to The Wall Street Journal, and in 2008 and 2009 Forbes named her the second most powerful woman in the world. Prior to assuming her post at the FDIC, Bair served as assistant secretary for financial institutions at the US Department of the Treasury and as senior vice president for government relations of the New York Stock Exchange.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0061Q688A
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Free Press; Reprint edition (September 25, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 25, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5694 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Once named by Time Magazine as “the little guy’s protector in chief,” Ms. Bair is a passionate advocate for strong consumer protections in financial services and educating the public on financial basics, starting at an early age. She is the author of Albert Whitman’s Money Tales picture book series, which includes Rock, Brock and the Savings Shock (2006), Isabel’s Car Wash (2008). Princess Persephone Loses the Castle (2021), Billy the Borrowing Blue-Footed Booby (2021) Shark Scam (2022) and Princess Persephone’s Dragon Ride Stand (2022). She also authored a book about the financial crisis for young adults, Bullies of Wall Street (Simon & Schuster, 2015). She has received awards from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), the Council on Economic Education (CEE), the JumpStart Coalition, and Institute for Financial Literacy for her educational writings.

Ms. Bair has had a long and distinguished career in government, academia, and finance. She is perhaps best known as Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2006 to 2011, when she steered the agency through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. For her leadership of the FDIC, she received the JFK Library’s Profiles in Courage Award and was twice named by Forbes Magazine as the second most powerful woman in the world. A former finance professor and college president, Ms. Bair has been nationally recognized for her innovative initiatives to make college more accessible and affordable. She is a frequent commentator and op-ed contributor on financial regulation and the student debt crisis, as well as author of Bull by the Horns (Simon & Schuster, 2012) her memoir of the financial crisis, which made the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller lists.

She is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security, a group composed of some of the world’s most renowned economists and public servants dedicated to peace and world prosperity; a founding director of the Volcker Alliance, established by Former Federal Reserve Board Chair Paul Volcker to build trust in government, and the founding chair of the Systemic Risk Council, which monitors and advocates for reforms to promote financial stability. She also serves as a board member or advisor to a number of public companies.

Watch this CNBC video and article about Sheila Bair’s Money Tales series and her passion for helping kids and their parents learn money basics.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/18/how-to-raise-financially-healthy-kids.html

Watch Sheila Bair talk with CNBC about the meaning of money.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/05/09/former-fdic-chair-sheila-bair-sees-money-as-a-means-to-an-end.html

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Robert G McPherson
5.0 out of 5 stars When are we going to start listening to smart women?
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ian
5.0 out of 5 stars interesting comparison to geithner's book
Reviewed in Germany on October 14, 2015
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5.0 out of 5 stars WALL STREET V MAIN STREET
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Ally Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars especially interesting for finance people
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Nick
5.0 out of 5 stars It makes this book a good read in the heat of the summer
Reviewed in Canada on August 27, 2015
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