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Praise for Jimmy Stewart Is Dead

"Kotlikoff grabs us by the collar, brilliantly unveiling the truth about our financial system. With scintillating arguments, vivid examples, and terrific wit, he offers a powerful reform that stops banks from gambling and restricts them to their legitimate purpose, 'connecting borrowers to lenders and savers to investors.' This is economics at its very best: deeply insightful and powerfully useful. It will change the global debate."
—JEFFREY SACHS, Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Development and Health Policy, Columbia University

"Financial reform needs something simple, clear, and, most of all, effective. Read this book to get and understand the answer."
—GEORGE SHULTZ, Distinguished Fellow, the Hoover Institution, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and former U.S. Secretary of State

"At last! A real financial page-turner. Kotlikoff calls out the bad actors behind the financial crisis and nails them cold. But he also tells us how to prevent it from happening again. It's called Limited Purpose Banking. Anyone can read this book—and everyone should."
—SCOTT BURNS, Financial Columnist, Universal Press Syndicate

"Jimmy Stewart Is Dead is a page-turner, as fast-paced as The Simpsons, with new insights on every page. As fun as it is, Jimmy Stewart is also deadly serious. It describes our deep financial problems and offers an amazingly simple financial fix to prevent an even worse crash. Everyone should read this book."
—GEORGE AKERLOF, Koshland Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, Nobel laureate in Economics

"Kotlikoff's book makes an impassioned, coherent, and convincing case for Limited Purpose Banking."
—ROBERT E. LUCAS, Jr., John Dewey Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Nobel laureate in Economics

"This book is 'must' reading for everyone who cares about the future of the American economy."
—ROBERT W. FOGEL, Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, Nobel laureate in Economics

"Kotlikoff is right. Unless we institute fundamental reforms, there will be an even greater crisis. This well-written book is a must-read for those concerned with reforming the financial system."
—EDWARD C. PRESCOTT, W. P. Carey Chair in Economics, Arizona State University, Nobel laureate in Economics

"Certainly we need to abandon today's hazardous financial system. Kotlikoff's Limited Purpose Banking plan is one of the best visions to surface so far."
—EDMUND PHELPS, McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University, Nobel laureate in Economics

SEE INSIDE ENDORSEMENTS BY Jagdish Bhagwati, Michael Boskin, Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Kevin Hassett, Simon Johnson, William Niskanen, William Owens, Rudy Penner, Robert Reich, Kenneth Rogoff, Paul Romer, Steve Ross, Eytan Sheshinski, Murray Weidenbaum, Susan Woodward, and other prominent economists and policymakers.

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ISBN-13: 9780470581551
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/8/2010
Pages: 241
Sales rank: 639,899
Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

LAURENCE J. KOTLIKOFF is a William Fairfield Warren Professor of Economics at Boston University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Fellow of the Econometric Society, and former Senior Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers. Coauthor of The Coming Generational Storm and Spend 'Til the End and author of The Healthcare Fix, Kotlikoff has been published extensively in the nation's leading newspapers, magazines, and financial web sites on financial reform, taxes, saving, growth, deficits, Social Security, healthcare, pensions, and personal finance.

Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1 It’s a Horrible Mess.

It’s Not Bailey Savings & Loan.

Economics Diary, Spring 2009: The D Word.

Economics Diary, August 22, 2009.

The Treasury’s No-Stress Stress Test.

Economics Diary, August 26, 2009: The State of the States.

It’s the Psychology, Duh!.

When Lexington, Massachusetts, Turns into Camden, New Jersey.

Economics Diary, August 29, 2009: The Great D or the Great R?

Systemic Risk Insurance.

Who’s Backstopping the Backstop?

Trust Doesn’t Come Cheap.

Full Nondisclosure.

A System with No Firewalls.

Chapter 2 The Big Con: Financial Malfeasance, American Style.

Richard Fuld or Elmer Fudd?

Playing Bridge as Bear Burned.

Macho, Macho Men.

Stan the Man.

Economic Diary, August 11, 2009: Uncle Sam Sues Uncle Sam.

Economics Diary, September 14, 2009: Judge Rakoff to the SEC: "Drop Dead".

The Prince of Redness.

CDOs to the Races.

CDO Liquidity Puts.

AIG’s Three-Hundred-Million-Dollar Man.

Franklin Delano Raines.

Speculation with Other People’s Money.

It’s the Leveraging, Not the Leverage.

Stealing Other People’s Money.

Madoff ’s Ponzi Scheme.

The Essence of Ponzi Schemes.

Economics’ Take on Ponzi Schemes.

Don’t Show Me the Money.

The Real Crime in a Ponzi Scheme.

Is the U.S. Banking System a Ponzi Scheme?

From Ponzi Schemes to Full Disclosure.

Disclosure Is Essential.

Disclosure Is Not Enough.

Uncle Sam’s Ponzi Scheme.

Fiscal Gap Accounting.

Why Is the U.S. Fiscal Gap So Large?

Social Security’s Unfunded Liability.

Is the U.S. Bankrupt?

Chapter 3 Uncle Sam’s Dangerous Medicine.

Sam’s Got Your Back.

Maturity Transformation in Theory and Practice.

Backing the Buck.

Opening Pandora’s Box.

Economics Diary, September 14, 2009: Trade/Financial War with China?

Our Once and Future Horrible Mess.

Big Brother, Can You Spare One Hundred Billion?

Bailing Out Corporate Pensions.

Recapitalizing the Banks.

Buying Up Toxic Assets.

GASP—The Geithner and Summers Plan.

Putting More of Someone Else’s Skin in the Game.

Leverage upon Leverage.

"Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction".

Proposed "Control of Derivatives".

The Dangers of Putting Wall Street on a Leash.

Chapter 4 "This Sucker Could Go Down".

Taking Stock.

We Are Not All Keynesians Now.

Reviewing the Case for Radical Surgery.

Chapter 5 Limited Purpose Banking.

Full Disclosure—No Plan Is Perfect.

Banks = Mutual Funds.

The Federal Financial Authority.

Ending Insider Rating.

Bye-Bye, Bernie, Bye-Bye, Allen.

Initiation, Not Securitization, Is the Problem.

Securitizing Death.

Cash Mutual Funds.

Obviating FDIC Insurance and Capital Requirements.

Cash Mutual Funds and Narrow Banking.

Regaining Control of the Money Supply.

Insurance Mutual Funds.

Illustrating a Life Insurance Mutual Fund.

Insuring the Uninsurable—A Life Insurance Example.

The Financial Risk of Swine Flu.

LPB Life Insurance Mutual Funds and Tontines.

Illustrating Other Types of Insurance Mutual Funds.

LPB Lets Us Leverage Us, But Not Our Countrymen.

Using Insurance Mutual Funds to Buy and Sell CDSs.

Sharing Aggregate Risk.

Parimutuel Betting and Insurance Mutual Funds.

Betting on More than One Horse/Mortality Rate.

Illustrating a Homeowner’s Insurance Mutual Fund.

Helping Solve the Corporate Governance Problem.

Relationship of Limited Purpose Banking to Glass-Steagall.

Isn’t LPB Simply Imposing 100 Percent Capital Requirements?

Chapter 6 Getting from Here to There.

Implementing Limited Purpose Banking.

Zombies and Gazelles.

Deleveraging Investment Banking and Trading.

An End to Rogue Trading.

The Politics of Limited Purpose Banking.

Chapter 7 What About?

Can We Just Agree to Agree?

Will LPB Reduce Liquidity?

Will LPB Reduce Credit?

Who Will Lend to Business?

Will LPB Reduce Leverage?

Will LPB Shrink the Financial Sector?

Doesn’t LPB Force Us to Become Our Own Bankers?

Isn’t LPB Reducing the Amount of Safe Assets?

Does LPB Require Homemade Insurance Policies?

Insuring Against Changes in Insurability.

With LPB You Don’t Know the Odds Until It’s Too Late.

Why Not Simply Correctly Price the Government’s Guarantees?

How Will Monetary Policy Operate?

What about Foreign Assets?

Won’t Americans Just Bank Abroad?

Doesn’t LPB Dramatically Shrink the Money Supply?

What’s the Role of the FFA in Investment Banking?

What about Venture Capital, Private Equity Firms, and Hedge Funds?

Is GE a Bank under LPB?

Can’t Nonfinancial Corporations Play Conventional Bank?

Why Let Proprietorships Run Traditional Banks?

Will LPB Prevent Financial Panics?

LPB Will Destroy Valuable Relationships and Information Banks Have About Their Borrowers.

Economics Diary, November 11, 2009: Whither the Economy?

Chapter 8 Conclusion.

Afterword Fixing the Rest of Our Economic Mess.

Fixing Taxes: The Purple Tax.

Fixing Healthcare: Medicare Part C for All!.

Fixing Social Security and Retirement Accounts: The Personal Security System.

Removing the Fiscal and Economic Swords of Damocles.

Notes.

About the Author.

Index.

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Irreverent but cogent argument for limited purpose banking

There's no use pining for the good old days - "It's a Wonderful Life" was just a Hollywood movie, the town of Bedford Falls doesn't really exist and Jimmy Stewart is long gone. But earth-shattering economic tumult has a way of evoking nostalgia for the return of (what you think were) simpler, more honest fiscal times. Economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff delivers a salty, sometimes irreverent, but ultimately convincing remedy to cure you of the erroneous belief that banking should return to the past to make up for the sins of the present. He competently lays out his concept of how "limited purpose banking" would work while hoisting on their own petard the crafty bankers, sinister lenders and obfuscating bureaucrats who nearly crashed the economy. getAbstract recommends Kotlikoff's original interpretation of events resulting from the 2008 crisis and his exposition of the far-reaching solution he offers, but quibbles over just one point: George Bailey ran the Bailey Building and Loan, not the Bailey Savings and Loan.
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