Sometime in the 1970s and 1980s, the use of credit cards, which hadbegun as a convenience, began to grow into an addiction.Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America explains how a nation of savers became a nation ofconsumers and how Wall Street used consumers’ addiction to spendingto create the ‘toxic securities’ that threaten to bring about thecollapse of the global economy.
Geisst looks at the policy implications of the credit crisis anddescribes how the United States can get its fiscal house inorder:
* Debt must be brought back onto the issuer’s balance sheet.
* Investors must have the assurance of recourse to the debtissuer’s own funds, rather than the empty promise of a valuelessdocument.
* Regulators must be educated to know at least as much aboutfinancial engineering as the structured finance instruments’architects do.
This book connects the dots from consumer spending to creditcards to home-equity loans and back to credit cards.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction.
1 The Great American Credit Machine.
2 Creating a Consumer Credit Society in the 1920s.
3 A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
4 The Rise of Credit Cards.
5 The Mortgage Explosion.
6 The Politics of Credit.
7 Policy Implications.
8 Prescription and Outlook.
Bibliography.
Index.
Circa l’autore
Charles Geisst is the author of seventeen books, including Undue Influence: How the Wall Street Elite Put the Financial System at Risk (John Wiley, 2004), Deals of the Century:Wall Street, Mergers, & the Making of Modern America (John Wiley, 2003), Wheels of Fortune: The History of Speculation from Scandal to Respectability (John Wiley, 2002), The Last Partnerships: Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties(Mc Graw Hill, 2001), Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates (Oxford University Press, 2000), 100 Years of Wall Street (an illustratedhistory, Mc Graw-Hill, 1999), and Wall Street: A History(Oxford University Press, 1997). He also is the editor andprincipal contributor to the Encyclopedia of American Business History, published by Facts On File in December 2005. He alsowrites a column on financial affairs for Global Entrepreneur, the Chinese business magazine.
The Last Partnerships was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten Business Books for 2001 and has been translated into Chinese ashave Wheels of Fortune and Monopolies in America.Wall Street: A History was on the New York Times Business Bestseller List for three months and was aselection of the History Book Club and the Book of the Month Club International. It was also on the Toronto Globe & Mail Business Bestseller List and has been translated into German, Japanese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Hebrew, and Russian. 100 Years of Wall Street was on the Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller List, Asian Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller List, and the Business Week Business Bestseller List as well as on the bestseller list in India. It has also beentranslated into Russian, Korean, and Chinese. A previous text, Investment Banking in the Financial System, was translatedinto Chinese and was a standard business school text in Beijing.His books have been translated 16 times.
Geisst was born in New Jersey in 1946. He attended the Universityof Richmond (BA, 1968), the New School for Social Research (MA, 1970) and the London School of Economics & Political Science(Ph D, 1972) and did post-doctoral study as a Visiting Scholar atthe Yale Law School in law and history, and at Balliol College, Oxford University in finance. He has been a frequent guest on radioand television talk shows, including Frontline, ABC Evening News, ABC Nightline, CBS Evening News, WCBS TV, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TVand radio, Nippon Television, NPR, A & E, Radio New Zealand, BBC, Australian Broadcasting, Tech TV, A & E, The History Channel, and the CBC. He has spoken about his work at the New York Public Library, the New York Historical Association, and the 92Street Y among others.
From 1972-75 he taught political science in an open admissionsenvironment at the City University of New York before taking a jobon Wall Street. Subsequently, he worked as a capital marketsanalyst and investment banker at several investment banks in the City of London. Since 1985, he has taught finance at Manhattan College, and he was named the college’s first Louis F. Capalbo Chair in Business in 1993. In 2009, he was named to the Ambassador Charles A. Gargano Chair in Global Economics. Consultingassignments in financial markets have been with Cazenove & Co., S.G. Warburg & Co., the Hudson Institute, and J.P. Morgan &Co. Listed in Who’s Who, he has published professional andtrade articles in magazines and journals such as the Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Newsday, and Euromoney. He lives with his wife in Oradell, New Jersey.
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