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Herb Allison builds a powerful case for breaking up the megabanks and overhauling regulation and oversight of the financial industry so that the public interest can prevail over the self-interest of bankers...and another financial crisis can be avoided.
Allison draws upon his own exceptionally broad experience in the financial industry to cut through the outrage and finger pointing at America’s largest banks for their roles in the financial crisis, and reveal why those institutions have become addicted to risk, how their deep-seated conflicts of interest harm the public and, most importantly, what should be done now to reform them.
During Allison’s 40-year career, he has managed the investment banking and trading divisions and then served as president of Merrill Lynch in the 1990s; led TIAA-CREF, one of America’s most respected investment companies, from 2002-2008; assumed leadership of Fannie Mae at the request of Treasury Secretary Paulson when that company was placed into conservatorship during the mortgage crisis; and directed the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the Obama Administration. He also coordinated the group of banks that bailed out Long Term Capital Management in 1998.
Readers of The Megabanks Mess can discuss the book on Twitter: @bankmess
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In a brilliant essay on the death of Osama bin Laden, Christopher Hitchens insists that the necessity to resist the threat of theocratic fanaticism is by no means cancelled. Hitchens argues that bin Laden and his adherents represented the most serious and determined and bloodthirsty attempt to revive totalitarian and racist ideology since 1945. Further, that while the unending struggle for reason is entitled to take some especial comfort in his demise, the values of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity will always need to be defended and reaffirmed.Celebrated polemicist Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, reflects upon the life and death of Osama bin Laden in this sobering Kindle Single. This isn't the first time Hitchens has turned his barbed pen on a despot guilty of drinking too much of his own bloody Kool-Aid. But "bin Ladenism," he argues, "like other nihilistic movements, is ultimately doomed to fail." Lest you take any comfort from this assertion, he is then quick to remind us that "the war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless" one. It's a war Hitchens thinks is worth fighting, though, and this rousing Kindle Single serves as his call to arms. --Erin Kodicek Read more
This essay looks at the career of Tom Hanks, and the way in which his core belief in American institutions—from the military, to business, to schools, among others—makes him the heir of Abraham Lincoln and our imagined ideal of a society that works. Over the course of his thirty-year career, Hanks's choices as an actor add up to a coherent and compelling vision of U.S. history. That vision is all the more striking because it came into focus amid the complex and often conflicting agendas of filmmaking."For better or for worse, the box office has always functioned as a kind of voting booth, one rife with corruption, but one with a tattered validity in capturing common sentiment." It's a meta-statement about American cinema worthy of Pauline Kael, but historian Jim Cullen makes this claim in the service of a much more specific agenda. Tom Hanks's body of work, he insists, culminates in a persuasive oeuvre that favors cultural institutions--over against other sources of American strength such as, say, rugged individualism--as the ultimate bastion of cultural redemption. From Bosom Buddies to Larry Crowne, Cullen argues, Hanks is a company man, though "the company" may be the government, Church, Army, or business as Hanks moves from Splash to Big to Gump to Toy Story and beyond. In this compelling, page-turning critique, Hanks is, in the end, "da man." --Jason Kirk Read more
In a brilliant essay on the death of Osama bin Laden, Christopher Hitchens insists that the necessity to resist the threat of theocratic fanaticism is by no means cancelled. Hitchens argues that bin Laden and his adherents represented the most serious and determined and bloodthirsty attempt to revive totalitarian and racist ideology since 1945. Further, that while the unending struggle for reason is entitled to take some especial comfort in his demise, the values of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity will always need to be defended and reaffirmed.Celebrated polemicist Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, reflects upon the life and death of Osama bin Laden in this sobering Kindle Single. This isn't the first time Hitchens has turned his barbed pen on a despot guilty of drinking too much of his own bloody Kool-Aid. But "bin Ladenism," he argues, "like other nihilistic movements, is ultimately doomed to fail." Lest you take any comfort from this assertion, he is then quick to remind us that "the war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless" one. It's a war Hitchens thinks is worth fighting, though, and this rousing Kindle Single serves as his call to arms. --Erin Kodicek Read more
