An inside account of how washington abandoned main street while rescuing wall street, it is april 2010, and after more than a year on the job, mr. Now barofsky, the former special inspector general, has written a revealing behindthescenes look at how, he says, the financial bailout programs funds were mishandled in a. Bush to be special inspector general for the troubled asset relief program, speaks at. Why neil barofskys book bailout matters naked capitalism. Barofsky, the former special inspector general who ripped. Jun 24, 2014 neil barofsky, the governments bailout watchdog, isnt done chewing up the big banks. His book is an insiders account of how the financial crisis of 2008 was handled in washington dc and it is not a pretty sight. Barofsky, who was the special inspector general for tarp, was in a vantage point to view the entirety of the obama policy apparatus, from the use of tarp to pad bank balance sheets to treasurys. Jul 23, 2012 now barofsky, the former special inspector general, has written a revealing behindthescenes look at how, he says, the financial bailout programs funds were mishandled in a book called bailout. Oct 15, 2012 our guest is neil barofsky, the former special inspector general in charge of oversight for the troubled asset relief program sigtarp. Neil barofsky, former inspector general of tarp, has written a piercing memoir about the naked collusion between washington and wall street. In this bracing, pageturning account of his strangerthanfiction baptism into the corrupted ways of washington, neil barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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Reveals the mishandling of the tarp bailout fund, sharing how geithner and his team failed to fix flaws in the homeowner relief program and that the government served wall streets interests over the broader public. Neil barofsky, the governments bailout watchdog, isnt done chewing up the big banks. Barofsky born 1970, a partner in the litigation department of national law firm jenner. According to neil barofsky, another financial crisis is all but inevitable and the cost will be even higher than the 2008 financial crisis. Apr 25, 2017 neil barofskys excellent bailout book has no mention of his courageous 2010 testimony to congress the fed bribed the bailedout banks with high interest rates to lend it the money right back.
He discusses his new personal narrative titled bailout. Bailout by neil barofsky august 23, 2017 i really didnt believe the figure of total commitments made during the financial crisis until i saw the backup documents that had been provided by each of the agencies themselves. Neil barofsky resigns as bailout inspector the new york times. Barofsky was a federal prosecutor in new york in 2008 when his boss encouraged him to apply for a newly created position in washington, d. The authors estimate that crisisrelated monetary and fiscal policy. New york cnnmoney the obama administration just cant get rid of neil barofsky. Neil barofsky, the special inspector general for tarp.
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