Jimmy Stewart is dead : ending the world's ongoing financial plague with limited purpose banking / Laurence J. Kotlikoff.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index.

Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: It's a Horrible Mess; Chapter 2: The Big Con: Financial Malfeasance, American Style; Chapter 3: Uncle Sam's Dangerous Medicine; Chapter 4: "This Sucker Could Go Down"; Chapter 5: Limited Purpose Banking; Chapter 6: Getting from Here to There; Chapter 7: What About?; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Afterword: Fixing the Rest of Our Economic Mess.

Discover how the global financial plague is poised to return, and what can be done to stop it. This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, the trustworthy, honest banker in the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, is dead . And so is his small-town bank, Bailey Savings and Loan. Instead, we're watching It's a Horrible Mess with Wall Street (aka the Vegas Strip) playing ever larger craps with our economy and our tax dollars. This book, written by one of the world's most respected economist, describes in lively, humorous, simple, but also deadly serious terms the big con underlying the big.