The Financial Crisis and the Free Mar..., John Allison
The Financial Crisis and the Free Mar..., John Allison
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The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure
Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economys Only Hope

Author: John Allison

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/27/2012

Synopsis

Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no. Not only is free-market capitalism good for the economy, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nations longest-serving CEO of one of the top twenty-five financial institutions, John Allison has had a unique inside view of the events leading up to the financial crisis. He has seen what the government has done to the real estate market and how government regulations only make matters worse. Now in this controversial wake-up call of a book, he has given us a solution. With shrewd insight, alarming insider details, and practical advice for todays leaders, this electrifying analysis is nothing less than a call to arms for a nation on the brink. In the end, youll understand why its so important to put the free back into free market.

About John Allison

John Allison is the former chairman and CEO of Branch Banking & Trust Corporation. He currently serves as a distinguished professor at the Wake Forest University School of Business. He is an inductee of the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patrick

2023-03-13 This book should be crucial for understanding the background of how the government regulators essentially created the 2008 crisis, and did not fix it, similar to how they have helped create the problem with the Silicon Valley Bank failure last week. I wrote this review about Dec. 2017 and......more

Goodreads review by Pedro

rating: 3.6/5 This book provides a great discussion on the topics of regulation and how politics and naive intentions influence banking. It's great to read an insider's view of what went wrong in the banking industry during the crisis. Allison was a super-successful banker who also studied a lot on t......more

Goodreads review by Ron

The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure – How Destructive Banking Reform Is Killing the Economy by John A. Allison (©2013 McGraw Hill) — a short book report by Ron Housley I had the good fortune to hear John Allison deliver a lecture several years ago and I was stunned by the scope and detail h......more

Goodreads review by Audra

This book was written by John Allison, who served as the CEO of BB&T Bank for many years, and helped that company to grow into one of the largest and most successful financial institutions in the country. His knowledge, insights and years of experience working within the financial industry and with......more

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