TY - BOOK AU - Ritholtz,Barry AU - Task,Aaron TI - Bailout Nation: how greed and easy money corrupted Wall Street and shook the world economy SN - 9780470520383 (cloth) U1 - 332.10973 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Hoboken, N.J. PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Financial crises KW - United States KW - Finance KW - Government policy KW - Intervention (Federal government) KW - Bailouts (Government policy) KW - Economic conditions KW - 2001-2009 KW - Economic policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index; A brief history of bailouts -- The creation of the Federal Reserve, and its role in creating our bailout nation -- Pre-bailout nation : (1860-1942) -- Industrial-era bailouts (1971-1995) -- Stock market bailouts, 1987-1995 -- The irrational exuberance era (1996-1999) -- The tech wreck, 2000-2003 -- The backwards, rate-driven economy -- The mad scramble for yield -- The machinery of subprime -- A memo found in the street : Uncle Sam the enabler ER -