TY - BOOK ID - 30999630 TI - Everybody ought to be rich : the life and times of John J. Raskob, capitalist PY - 2013 SN - 019025436X 1299456707 0199908516 9780199908516 0199734577 9781299456709 9780199734573 0199911622 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Capitalists and financiers KW - Finance KW - Raskob, John J. KW - United States KW - History KW - Funding KW - Funds KW - Economics KW - Currency question KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30999630 AB - John Raskob is not a name that looms large but his greatest building casts a shadow on the people of New York every day. Financier of the Empire State Building, Raskob was a self-made businessman who worked for DuPont and for GM and famously invented the idea for consumer credit, which he first offered to individual car buyers (GMAC). His wide circle of business associates and personal acquaintances included Water Chrysler, the DuPonts, Alfred Sloane, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, Western miners, and the Pope. ER -