A piece of the action : when the middle class joined the money class

The Resource A piece of the action : when the middle class joined the money class
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A piece of the action : when the middle class joined the money class
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when the middle class joined the money class
Statement of responsibility
Joe Nocera ; with a new foreword, "The unintended consequences"
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Language
eng
Summary
"'America began to change on a mid-September day in 1958, when the Bank of America dropped its first 60,000 credit cards on the unassuming city of Fresno, California.' So begins Joe Nocera’s riveting account of one of the most astonishing revolutions in modern American life—what Nocera labels 'the money revolution.' In the decades since, the middle class has gained access to credit cards, to mutual funds, to retirement accounts—and to hundreds of other financial vehicles that have allowed everyone to get 'a piece of the action.' In this lively, engaging book, some of the great financial characters of modern times—from Charles Merrill to Charles Schwab to Peter Lynch—strut across the stage as the course of this great financial shift is charted"--
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YDXCP
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305.55 Noc
Index
index present
LC call number
HT690.U6
LC item number
N6 2013
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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