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Article: Charles Geisst to Speak at Museum of American Finance on Collateral Damaged.
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- Mental Health Weekly Digest
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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On Thursday, November 5, the Museum of American Finance will continue its 2009 Henry Kaufman Financial History and Practices Lecture/Symposia Series with a talk by best-selling author Charles Geisst on Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America. The presentation will be held at 5:30 pm in the Museum's education center, located at 48 Wall Street, and will be followed by reception and book signing (see also Museum of American Finance).
In Collateral Damaged, Geisst explains how a nation of savers became a nation of consumers and how Wall Street used consumers' addiction to spending to create the "toxic securities" that threaten to bring about the ...