In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable insider indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund...
“Bailout is a jaw-dropping play-by-play of how the Treasury Department bungled the financial bailouts... With a prosecutor’s logic and copious footnotes, Barofsky makes it clear things are rarely what they seem in Washington.” —USA Today
“A courageous, insightful book.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A must-read... It might seem remarkable that there’s more to say about our late Bailout Age. But there is more—a lot more... A damning account of how the Bush and Obama administrations handled the whole episode... crucial for taxpayers to understand.” —Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times
“Scathing... Taxpayers who feel helpless in the midst of the extended economic recession are likely to feel energized to metaphorically blow up the system after reading Barofsky’s account.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable insider indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. During the height of the financial crisis in 2008, Barofsky gave up his job in the esteemed U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York City to become the special inspector general overseeing the spending of the bailout money. But from day one his efforts to protect against fraud and to hold the big banks accountable were met with outright hostility from Treasury officials. Bailout is a riveting account of Barofsky’s plunge into the political meat grinder of Washington, and a vital revelation of just how captured by Wall Street our political system is and why the banks have only become bigger and more dangerous in the wake of the crisis.
NEIL BAROFSKY is currently a senior fellow at New York University School of Law. From December 2008 until March 2011 he served as the special inspector general in charge of oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
How the States Got Their Shapes is the first book to tackle why our state lines are where they are. Here are the stories behind the stories, right down to the tiny northward jog at the eastern end of Tennessee and the teeny-tiny (and little known) parts of Delaware that are not attached to Delaware but to New Jersey.
Designing sequences of work for the language classroom. From the series Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers. Series Editor Scott Thornbury.
Detailed Solution in Eight Programming Languages. 2nd Edition - Revised and Updated. Take the guesswork out of using regular expressions. With more than 140 proven recipes, this cookbook provides everything you need to solve a wide range of real-world problems. Novices will learn basic skills and tools, and programmers and experienced users will find a wealth of detail.
These Norwegian church paintings on wood display a rich brilliance of colour and design and a tenderness of religious feeling that are quite unlike other styles of the Gothic period.
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The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World. Revised edition with new material. By Tony Wagner, author of The Global Achievement Gap, with video content produced by Robert A. Compton.
Mixing and Compounding of Polymers: Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition. Edited by Ica Manas-Zloczower. This monograph represents a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of mixing and compounding technology in polymer processing. It covers all aspects of mixing, from the basic principles to the various practical applications, with due consideration to material properties and mixing devices.
Tommy’s Honour is golf’s first father-and-son story. Old Tom Morris grew up a stone’s throw from St Andrews
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In Agile Testing, Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester’s role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help...
From the founding editor of Everyman’s Library comes this enthralling illustrated collection of thirty-three fairy tales to please children of all ages—and the parents who read to them. Favorite English characters such as Dick Whittington, Jack the Giant Killer, and King Arthur appear alongside Tom Thumb, Chicken-Licken, and other figures from the wider world of folklore...
As an assistant to a famous upscale interior designer, Lane Harmon, mother to four-year-old Katie, is accustomed to visiting opulent homes around the tristate area. So when she is called to a modest town house in Bergen County, Lane knows the job is unusual. Then she learns the home belongs to the wife of a notorious and disgraced financier named Parker Bennett...
Kniha v anglickém jazyce, která představuje tokajská vína a jedinečný region, v kterém tento lahodný mok vzniká.
A lady does not smoke cheroot. She does not ride astride. She does not fence or attend duels. She does not fire a pistol, and she never gambles at a gentlemen's club. Lady Calpurnia Hartwell has always followed the rules, rules that have left her unmarried - and more than a little unsatisfied. And so she's vowed to break the rules and live the life of pleasure she's been missing...
In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable insider indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund...
