Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way,Used

Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way,Used

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The 1980s witnessed a lemminglike rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation of credit practicesthe subject of James Grant's brilliant, cleareyed history of American finance. Two longrunning trends converged in the 1980s to create one of our greatest speculative booms: the democratization of credit and the socialization of risk. At the turn of the century, it was almost impossible for the average working person to get a loan. In the 1980s, it was almost impossible to refuse one. As the pace of lending grew, the government undertook to bear more and more of the creditors' riska pattern, begun in the Progressive era, which reached full flower in the 'conservative' administration of Ronald Reagan. Based on original scholarship as well as firsthand observation, Grant's book puts our recent love affair with debt in an entirely fresh, often chilling, perspective. The result is requiredand wickedly entertainingreading for everyone who wants or needs to understand how the world really works.'A brilliantly eccentric, kaleidoscopic tour of our credit lunacy. . . . A splendid, toothgnashing saga that should be savored for its ghoulish humor and passionately debated for its iconoclastic analysis. It is a fitting epitaph to the credit binge of the '80s.'Ron Chernow, The Wall Street Journal.

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