Read All the Presidents' Bankers Online
Authors: Nomi Prins
financial strategies of,
91
as financial supermarket,
50–51
global expansion of,
43–44
,
53
,
168
,
185
,
213
,
222
,
225
,
246
as largest bank in US,
84
multicurrency loan agreement,
269
national defense program, financing of,
162
purchase of First National Bank of New York,
217
war, beneficial effect of,
163
See also
Citigroup
National City Company,
29
National Council on US-China Trade (later US Business Council),
287–288
National Economic Council,
369
,
382
,
400
National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933,
132
,
149
National Monetary Commission,
19
National Reserve Association,
24
,
26
National War Fund,
167–168
NATO.
See
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Neutrality Act of 1939,
156
,
164
Neutrality laws,
148
New York Banking Department,
108
New York City, threatened bankruptcy of,
298–300
New York Trust,
217
Nicaraguan Freedom Fund,
294
Nixon, Richard M.
bankers, relationship with,
275
,
279–280
,
283–284
election of 1968,
271
gold standard, end of,
281
House Un-American Activities Committee, member of,
189
Israel, support for,
290
Lockheed, bailout of,
279
McCloy’s opinion of,
234
National Council on US-China Trade, establishment of,
287–288
reelection in 1972,
283
resignation of,
295
Norbeck, Peter,
119
Norman, Montagu,
80
Norris, George,
94
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
370
,
372
North Atlantic Security plan,
190
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
202
,
227
Northern Securities Company,
6
NSC 68 (national security report),
194
Nuclear bomb testing,
236
Obama, Barack
bankers, relationship with,
394
,
411–412
,
415–416
campaign contributors of,
411
,
417
economic policy appointments,
412–413
Goldman Sachs,
411–413
Jamie Dimon, friendship with,
413
quantitative easing, approval of,
101
Wall Street dishonesty, reaction to,
419
,
421
Ochs, Adolph,
129
Oil, recycling into loans,
292–294
O’Neal, Earnest “Stanley,”
402
,
406
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries),
244
,
289–290
,
302
,
307
Organization for European Economic Cooperation (later Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development),
227
Pact of Steel,
154
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah,
304
,
306–309
,
310
,
315
Palast, Greg,
412
Palmer, Edward,
285
Pandit, Vikram,
412
Panic of 1893,
3
Panic of 1907,
7–13
Paris Peace Conference,
58–60
Participation Sales Act of 1966,
267
Paulson, Henry “Hank,”
203
,
369
,
395
,
398
,
399
,
401
,
404
,
407
,
409–411
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909,
25
,
30
Pearson, Drew,
249
Peck, Mary Allen Hulbert,
15
Pecora Commission hearings,
118–120
,
127–131
Pelosi, Nancy,
411
Penn Square Bank,
328–329
Perkins, James,
119
,
122–124
,
139
,
140
,
151
,
160
Perón, Juan,
222
Peterson, Rudolph,
272
Petrodollars,
276
,
290
,
293–294
,
303
Phillips, David Graham,
6
Piketty, Thomas,
391
Pitt, Harvey,
398
Porter, Roger,
359
Pound, devaluation of,
367
Prado, Manuel,
222
Preston, Lewis,
312
,
344
,
351
,
362
Prime rates, floating,
286
Pritzker, Penny,
412
Progressive “Bull Moose” party,
30
Prosser, Seward,
97
Puche, Jaime Serra,
372
Pujo, Arsène,
27
Quantitative easing,
85
,
101
,
420
Rabinowitz, Yehoshua,
292
Railroads, regulation of during World War I,
42–43
,
52
Raines, Franklin,
303
Rajai, Mohammad-Ali,
316
Reagan, Nancy,
324
Reagan, Ronald
1987 market crash, investigation of,
346
Argentina, loan guarantee for,
332
bankers, relationship with,
323–324
,
326
campaign promises,
321
deregulation policy,
320
,
321
,
337–338
economic recovery program,
325–326
election of 1980,
315
Greenspan, appointment of,
344–345
mergers, policy regarding,
330
reelection in 1984,
338
third world debt crisis, solutions for,
332–333
,
338–339
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs),
297–298
Recarey, Miguel Jr.,
352
Reciprocal Tariff Act of 1934,
169
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1943,
169
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
114
Reed, John,
270
,
303
,
336
,
343–344
,
350
,
351–352
,
381
,
384
,
389
,
390
Regan, Donald,
283–284
,
321–323
,
326
,
333
,
334
,
335
,
338
,
402
Regulation Q,
133
,
136
,
233
,
306
,
314
Reich, Robert,
391
Rentschler, Frederick,
160
Rentschler, Gordon,
160
,
168
,
181
Resolution Funding Corporation,
254
,
354
Resolution Trust Corporation,
359
Revenue Act of 1932,
145
Revenue Act of 1935,
145–146
Revenue Act of 1943,
169
Revenue Acts of 1924, 1926, 1928,
82
Revenue Acts of 1950 and 1951,
200
Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994,
371
,
383
Robb, Charles,
363
Roberts, Owen,
149
Rockefeller, David
Alliance for Progress, use of,
250
appointments to public office, offers of,
210
,
284
,
308
on business-government synergies,
245
as co-CEO of Chase Bank,
232
global expansion,
201
,
237
,
256–257
,
273
,
287
,
288–289
,
291–292
International Advisory Committee, creation of,
272
as international power broker,
238
Kennedy, relationship with,
231–232
retirement from Chase,
327
Rockefeller-Kennedy letters in
Life
magazine,
240–241
Rostow’s theories, belief in,
237
,
238
salary in 1968,
272
Shah of Iran, relationship with,
304–305
,
307–310
start of Chase career,
193–194
Time
magazine article about,
242
Trilateral Commission, creation of,
275
Rockefeller, Happy,
307