Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America

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Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America Pub. Date: 8/12/2009 Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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During the 1970s and 1980s, the use of credit cards, which had begun as a convenience, grew into an addiction. Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America explains how a nation of savers became a nation of consumers and how Wall Street used consumers' addiction to spending to create the "toxic securities" that have wreaked havoc with the global economy.

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In this exhaustive study of the credit card industry, Geisst (Undue Influence) delivers a scathing critique of the routine practices that led to the current consumer debt crisis. He details the origins of credit cards, a path pioneered by merchants bent on making loyal customers, including Sears Roebuck, which established a consumer credit business in 1911, followed by General Motors and Ford opening finance divisions to facilitate car purchases. The banks followed their profitable example, creating finance subsidiaries through their parent holding companies. The book highlights the sweeping financial deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s, the backdrop of the rise in credit card offers, adjustable rate mortgages and, ultimately, the current poor state of consumer financial affairs. Geisst calls for additional regulation of securitized financial products, the establishment of a consumer credit protection agency and reinstatement of usury laws to cap exorbitant credit card and adjustable mortgage interest rates. Given the crippling debt load that many Americans now carry, this important discussion of the troubling marriage of consumer credit and mortgage lending is long overdue. (Aug.)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781576603253
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/12/2009
Edition number: 1
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 1,225,913
Series: Bloomberg Series , #6
Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

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 (McGraw 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 illustrated history, McGraw-Hill, 1999), and Wall Street: A History (Oxford University Press, 1997). He also is the editor and principal contributor to the Encyclopedia of American Business History, published by Facts On File in December 2005. He also writes 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 as have 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 a selection 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 been translated into Russian, Korean, and Chinese. A previous text, Investment Banking in the Financial System, was translated into 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 University of Richmond (BA, 1968), the New School for Social Research (MA, 1970) and the London School of Economics & Political Science (PhD, 1972) and did post-doctoral study as a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Law School in law and history, and at Balliol College, Oxford University in finance. He has been a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, including Frontline, ABC Evening News, ABC Nightline, CBS Evening News, WCBS TV, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV and radio, Nippon Television, NPR, A & E, Radio New Zealand, BBC, Australian Broadcasting, TechTV, 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 92 Street Y among others.
From 1972-75 he taught political science in an open admissions environment at the City University of New York before taking a job on Wall Street. Subsequently, he worked as a capital markets analyst 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. Consulting assignments 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 and trade 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.

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.

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