Read All the Presidents' Bankers Online
Authors: Nomi Prins
in 1930s,
105–108
,
135
,
145–147
,
150–151
1958 recession,
223–224
1962 Blue Monday,
239–240
1987 market crash,
345
1990 credit crisis/recession,
360
in 1990s,
377–378
Edge, Walter Evans,
64
Edge Act of 1919,
64
Egypt,
212
,
217–219
,
221
,
224
,
273
,
289–291
,
315
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
domestic policy of,
197
,
204
,
211
Eisenhower Doctrine,
221
election of 1952,
203
foreign policy of,
204
international trade policy,
208
Joseph McCarthy and,
210
Korean War, termination of,
208
Lebanon, deployment of troops to,
225
military isolationism, opposition to,
207
Mutual Security Program,
210–211
,
212
,
230
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, commander of,
202
Suez crisis,
219
Eisenhower Doctrine,
221
Electronic funds transfer (EFT),
303
Elliott, William,
78
Emergency Economic Stability Act of 2008,
411
Emergency Loan Guarantee Act of 1971,
279
Emergency Moratorium Act (New York, 1975),
299
Energy companies, deregulation of,
375
Equitable Life Assurance Society,
4
Equitable Trust Company,
123–124
,
232
Esposito, Michael,
296
Euro,
385–386
Eurodollar market,
233
,
245
,
250
,
269
,
283
European banks, global expansion of,
358
Everything Card,
269
Excess Profits Act of 1950,
200
Export-Import Bank,
312
Fall, Albert,
74
Farber, Hilliard,
295
Fastow, Andrew,
421
FDIC.
See
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDR.
See
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Federal Crisis Inquiry Commission,
420–421
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC),
130–132
,
332
,
353
,
414
Federal Emergency Relief Administration,
132
Federal Reserve
Bank Holding Company Act and,
216–217
bank mergers and,
263
bank trading of corporate stocks, approval of,
361
Crash of 1929, reaction to,
100
,
101
Crash of 1987, reaction to,
345–346
Great Depression, policies during,
107
inception of at Jekyll Island, SC,
23–25
interest rates,
178
,
183
,
330
,
337–338
,
400
,
412
,
417
,
420
Kennedy assassination, reaction to,
249
monetary policy, conflict with Regan about,
330
quantitative easing,
85
securities underwriting, changes in rules on,
378–379
wartime financing,
163
Wriston’s proposals for bank expansion,
280
Federal Reserve Act of 1913,
34–39
Federal Trade Commission,
136
Ferguson, Thomas,
124
Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989,
353
Financial Institutions Deregulation Act (FIDA),
333–335
Financial Services Act of 1998 (HR10),
383–385
Financial Services Competitive Equity Act,
335
Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act),
387
,
389
,
390
First National City Bank of New York,
223
,
233
,
266
,
269
,
284
First of Boston Corporation,
139
Fisher, Peter,
398
Flanagan, H. C.,
224
Fleishhacker, Herbert,
102
Fletcher-Rayburn bill,
136
Floating prime rates,
286
Folsom, Marion,
205
Forbes, Bertie Charles,
50
,
91
,
98
,
100
Ford, Henry,
113
Ford, Henry III,
272
Foreign Assistance Act of 1948,
189
Fowler, Henry “Joe,”
203
,
261
,
266
Fox, Grace,
168
Freddie Mac,
411
Free-market float,
284–285
Free trade,
207–208
Frick, Henry Clay,
12
Friedrich, Klaus,
380
Fulbright, J. William,
247
Fuld, Richard Jr.,
408
Futures, trading,
282
,
363
,
364–365
Futures Trading Practices Act of 1992,
364
Gage, Lyman,
5
Galbraith, John Kenneth,
97
,
102–103
Garfield, James A.,
171
Garn, Jake,
335
Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982,
333
,
341
Garner, Robert,
187
Gary, Elbert,
12
Gay, Charles,
151
Geisst, Charles,
344
Geithner, Timothy,
401
,
405
,
406
,
410
,
413
Geneva Conference (1961),
235
Germany,
45
,
58–60
,
63
,
79–81
,
109
,
111–113
,
173
Giannini, A. P.,
126
,
135–136
,
140
,
142
,
148
,
181
,
182
,
184
Giannini, Mario,
182
Gibson, Donald,
231
Glackens, Louis,
7
Glass, Carter,
31–32
,
37
,
51
,
58
,
94
,
116
,
118
,
128
,
137
,
143
Glass-Owen bill,
34–36
Glass-Steagall Act of 1932,
116–117
Glass-Steagall Act of 1933,
132
,
325
,
344
,
353
,
385
,
390
,
392
Glass-Willis draft bill,
31
Goldman Sachs
as designated holding company,
408
Greece, shield of debt status of,
387
hybrid instruments, support for deregulation of,
364
Mexican bailout and,
374
Obama, campaign contributions to,
411
,
417
politicians, alliances with,
202–203
,
322–323
,
329
,
366
,
369
,
403
,
406
SEC fine of,
418
Weinberg’s relationship with FDR,
117–118
Goldschmid, Harvey,
402
Golub, Harvey,
389
Good, James,
88
Gorton, Slade,
363
Government bailout programs
Argentina, loan guarantee for,
332
Bank of America bailout,
409
,
410
,
411
Brady plan,
350–352
Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act,
306
Lockheed Emergency Loan Act,
279
Long Term Capital Management bailout,
386
Mexican bailout,
373–375
Penn Central debacle,
278
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
114
savings and loan banks,
348
,
353–354
third world loans,
320
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP),
411
,
414
Gramm, Wendy,
346
,
363
,
364
,
367–368
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999),
387
,
389
,
390
see also
Glass-Steagall repeal
Gratz, Earl Jay,
203
Gray, C. Boyden,
359