Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

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Discover how the global financial plague is poised to return, and what can be done to stop it

This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, thetrustworthy, honest banker in the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, isdead. And so is his small-town bank, Bailey Savings &Loan. Instead, we're watching It's a Horrible Mess with Wall Street(aka the Vegas Strip) playing ever larger craps with our economyand our tax dollars.

This book, written by one of the world's most respectedeconomist, describes in lively, humorous, simple, but also deadlyserious terms the big con underlying the big game?the web ofinterconnected financial, political, and regulatory malfeasancethat culminated in financial meltdown and brought us to oureconomic knees. But it also proposes an amazingly simplysolution?Limited Purpose Banking to make Wall Street safe for MainStreet.

• This book, as well as the financial fix described within it, have received rave reviews from a veritable who's who ofpolicymakers and economics, plus five economics NobelLaureates
• Written by a leading economist whose insights on this topic areunparalleled
• Outlines the first and only proposal to fundamentally fix ourfinancial disaster for good

Jimmy Stewart Is Dead will fundamentally change the wayyou think about the economy, financial markets, and thegovernment.

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