Shock Exchange: How Inner-City Kids From Brooklyn Predicted the Great Recession and the Pain Ahead
Language: English
Published by Ralph W. Baker, Jr., 2012
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- Title
- Shock Exchange: How Inner-City Kids From Brooklyn Predicted the Great Recession and the Pain Ahead
- Author
- Ralph W. Baker; Jr.
- Publisher
- Ralph W. Baker, Jr.
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0988488914
- ISBN 13
- 9780988488915
The first few chapters describe Mr. Baker’s experience growing up in Prince Edward County, VA which was one of the five lawsuits that made up the Brown v. Board of Education decision; it was also the only case led by high school students. Mr. Baker grew up with stories about the walkout at Robert Russa Moton High School, the public school closings that followed Brown and the five-year fight to get them reopened. Mr. Baker’s parents and other relatives had to attend schools in other counties, in other states or forgo school altogether. Some vowed never to return to the state of Virginia. Shock Exchange takes readers inside the stain of the school closings and that “education speech” Mr. Baker and his high school classmates were browbeat with by their parents.
The book’s recommendations on infrastructure investing and how to tamp down the rising cost of college have been trumpeted by President Obama, the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee. However, they conveniently forgot to cite the source. Critics try to make and unmake authors, but the market always decides. President Obama, Senator Orrin Hatch, Congressman Kevin Brady, et al. have spoken. Shock Exchange is the best book on Wall Street in the past 20 years, and on economics, it may be the most important book since the Great Depression. Shock Exchange is also a must read for African Americans.
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