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Wall Street wars: the epic battles with Washington that created the…

by Farley, Richard E.

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In the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration set out to radically remake America's financial system - but Wall Street was determined to stop them. In 1933, the American economy was in shambles, battered by the 1929 stock market crash and limp…

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Liquidated: an ethnography of Wall Street

by Ho, Karen Zouwen

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Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles : What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful …