The Bankers New Clothes, Martin Hellwig
The Bankers New Clothes, Martin Hellwig
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The Bankers' New Clothes
What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It - New Edition

Author: Martin Hellwig, Anat Admati

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 15 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/27/2024


Synopsis

A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the Year

Why our banking system is broken—and what we must do to fix it

New bank failures have been a rude awakening for everyone who believed that the banking industry was reformed after the Global Financial Crisis—and that we'd never again have to choose between massive bailouts and financial havoc. The Bankers' New Clothes uncovers just how little things have changed—and why banks are still so dangerous. Writing in clear language that anyone can understand, Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig debunk the false and misleading claims of bankers, regulators, politicians, academics, and others who oppose effective reform, and they explain how the banking system can be made safer and healthier. Thoroughly updated for a world where bank failures have made a dramatic return, this acclaimed and important book now features a new preface and four new chapters that expose the shortcomings of current policies and reveal how the dominance of banking even presents dangers to the rule of law and democracy itself.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Breakingviews on July 12, 2013

By George Hay How much capital do banks need? Ask the Basel Committee of global banking supervisors, and it will recommend 3 percent of total bank assets. Ask tougher observers like the UK’s banking commission, and you’ll hear 4 percent. But ask Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig, the economists behind "......more

Goodreads review by Ian on March 23, 2013

Many books have tried to explain the origins of the 2008 financial crisis, and many more have offered advice to prevent a recurrence. The Bankers’ New Clothes is the clearest prescription yet to address the central cause of the crisis: the financial system itself, and in particular modern (overlever......more

Goodreads review by Richard on February 15, 2016

This book drives home one simple idea again and again for over two hundred pages -- the banking system would be safer if minimum equity requirements of banks were to be increased. They reject other proposed solutions to the current fragility of the banking system as being too complex or too easily e......more

Goodreads review by Bergen on August 04, 2024

The book has a few very important messages concerning the machinations of finance, but repeats itself many times. At some points Admati and Hellwig very clearly convey why banks need more equity, what equity is, banks' role in society, risks associated, historical context, and the role government. A......more

Goodreads review by Eugene on November 25, 2020

The purpose of this book is to demystify financial language. Bankers use many misleading terminologies and claims which confuse everyone including politicians and regulators. Admati and Hellwig explain what finance is, does, and the fallacies created by misuse of language. Using a parable of The Emp......more