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The first accessible, upbeat, engaging and even amusing history of the endlessly fascinating topic of credit and debt, which has shaped civilization in ways even bankers cannot begin to imagine. It is altogether appropriate that the term applied to today's economic woes is "credit... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jeremy Bentham: British philosopher
- Karl Marx: Add a description of this character.
- Madoff
- Greenspan
- Martin Luther
- Milken
- Adam Smith
- Andrew Jackson
- Boesky
- John Calvin
- Cioffi
- Thomas Jefferson
- Mayer
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Seligman
- Cassano
- Ranieri
- Lorenzo
- Leo
- Fannie Mae
- Mozilo
- Virgil
- Koeppel
- Bill Clinton
- Benjamin Franklin
- Nathan
- John
- Thomas
- Drexel
- J. P. Morgan
- Ramsey
- Biddle
- Manning
- Siegel
- Bassanio
- Ambrose
- Michelson
- Catherine
- Levine
- Thomas Aquinas
- Matthew
- Susan
- Michael Lewis
- Davison
- Greenberg
- James
- Herbert Hoover: 30th President of the United States, born 1874, died 1964; president 1929-1933.
- Balthasar
Setting & Locations edit
- Wall Street
- America
- Europe
- Shylock
- New England
- United States
- London
- New York City
- California
- Florence
- Savonarola
- France
- Paris
- Germany
- Judaism
- Rome
- Washington
- Venice
- Lakewood
- Philadelphia
- Boston
- Italy
- Amsterdam
- Countrywide
- Britain
- Frankfurt
- Spain
- Atlanta
- Vatican
- Kansas City
- Salomon
- Jerusalem
- Waterloo
- Louisiana
- Virginia
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Oxford PPE UA Amp P Political Economy. (community list)
This book is in University of Asia and the Pacific. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jack Cashill (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 332.09
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