All the Presidents' Bankers (107 page)
Read All the Presidents' Bankers Online
Authors: Nomi Prins
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act),
415–416
Wall Street Seventeen,
190
War bonds,
159–160
,
163
,
166
,
168
,
169
Warburg, Paul Felix,
20
,
23
,
27
,
39
,
45
,
203
Warner, Douglas,
396
Warner, Rawleigh Jr.,
295
Warren Commission,
255
Watergate,
289
Watson, Jack,
303
Weatherstone, Dennis,
342
Weill, Sanford “Sandy,”
294
,
352
,
368
,
379
,
381
,
384
,
389
,
399
Weinberg, Sidney,
117–118
,
202–203
,
204
,
206
,
220
,
252
,
258–259
,
261
,
268
Weiner, Alan,
176
Wellstone, Paul,
390
Wertenbaker, Charles,
185
Wexler, Anne,
306
White, Harry Dexter,
165
,
170–171
,
175
,
189
White, Henry,
58
White House Economic Council,
382
Whitman, Ann,
220
Whitney, George,
89
,
99
,
144
,
147
,
187
,
206–207
,
217
Whitney, John Hay,
258
Whitney, Richard,
99
,
136–137
,
140
Wiggin, Albert “Al,”
82
,
91–92
,
97
,
102
,
103
,
109–114
,
122
,
123
,
125
,
130
Wiggin Committee,
111
William, John,
279
Williams, John H.,
170
Willis, H. Parker,
31
Wilson, John,
163–164
Wilson, Woodrow
Aldrich plan, view of,
28
attempts to force peace negotiations,
47
election of 1912,
30–31
election of 1916,
46
election of 1920,
67
Federal Reserve Act of 1913, signing,
36–37
Fourteen Points address,
52
Germany, pre-war relationship with,
45
global popularity of,
54
as governor of New Jersey,
27
Jack Morgan, alliance with,
40–43
,
48
at Paris Peace Conference,
57–61
on Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act,
30
on role of government in shaping economy,
14
support of by
Evening Post,
54–55
Vanderlip, relationship with,
14–15
,
29–32
war financing
vs.
neutrality,
41–42
Wirth, Timothy,
363
Wolfe, Tom,
93
Working Group on Financial Institutions Reform,
334
Works Progress Administration,
132
World Bank,
165
,
171
,
187–188
,
214
,
218
,
294
,
326–327
,
331–332
,
349
,
351
,
362
World Trade Center,
9
/11 attacks on,
397
World War Foreign Debt Commission,
77
World War I
debt repayment,
75–77
entry of US into the war,
48
financing, war-related,
43–44
,
47
,
49
Liberty bonds,
49
outbreak of,
40–41
railroads, regulation of,
42–43
,
52
war reparations,
58–60
,
63
,
79–81
,
109
World War II
Axis powers, creation of,
154
merchant ships, arming of,
164
multinational finance entities, creation of,
170–172
Munich Agreement,
153
one-world reconstruction and development, plans for,
165
Pearl Harbor, bombing of,
164
US declaration of war on Japan, Germany, and Italy,
164–165
Victory Bond Drive,
166
,
168
,
169
WorldCom,
399
Wriston, Walter
banking strategies,
293–294
,
302–303
deregulation, fight for,
246
,
248
,
277
,
306
Economic Policy Advisory Board,
325
,
329
expansion, proposals for,
280
global influence of,
286–287
Kennedy task force,
246–247
Labor Management Committee,
295
public office, offers of appointments to,
284
,
294
rate setting, allegations of,
285
retirement from Citibank,
336
Rockefeller, rivalry with,
276
salary in 1968,
272
start of career at National City Bank,
194
,
302–303
war surtax bill, support for,
268
Yalta Conference,
173
Yellen, Janet,
423
Yom Kippur War,
289–290
Young, Owen,
109
Young plan,
109
Zahedi, Ardeshir,
308
Zangara, Giuseppe,
118
Zedillo, Ernesto,
373–375
Zhou Enlai,
288
Zorin, Valerian,
235–236
Zweig, Phillip,
286
Matthew Dean Photography
NOMI PRINS
is a journalist, speaker, respected TV and radio commentator, and former Wall Street executive. Author of five other books, including
Other People’s Money
and
It Takes a Pillage,
her writing has also been featured in the
New York Times, Fortune, Mother Jones,
the
Guardian,
the
Nation,
and other publications. She is a senior fellow at Demos.
Founded in 2000,
Nation Books
has become a leading voice in American independent publishing. The inspiration for the imprint came from the
Nation
magazine, the oldest independent and continuously published weekly magazine of politics and culture in the United States.
The imprint’s mission is to produce authoritative books that break new ground and shed light on current social and political issues. We publish established authors who are leaders in their area of expertise, and endeavor to cultivate a new generation of emerging and talented writers. With each of our books we aim to positively affect cultural and political discourse.
Nation Books is a project of The Nation Institute, a nonprofit media center established to extend the reach of democratic ideals and strengthen the independent press. The Nation Institute is home to a dynamic range of programs: our award-winning Investigative Fund, which supports groundbreaking investigative journalism; the widely read and syndicated website TomDispatch; our internship program in conjunction with the
Nation
magazine; and Journalism Fellowships that fund up to 20 high-profile reporters every year.
For more information on Nation Books, the
Nation
magazine, and The Nation Institute, please visit:
www.facebook.com/nationbooks.ny
Twitter:
@nationbooks