Predator Nation Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America

Name: Predator Nation Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
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ISBN: 9780307952561

ISBN-10: 0307952568

ISBN-13: 9780307952561

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Authors: Charles H. Ferguson

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Charles Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Academy Award-winning documentary, Inside Job, now reveals how rogues with influence have taken over the country and are driving it to financial and social ruin.InPredator Nation, Ferguson exposes the networks of academic, government, and congressional influence--in all recent administrations, including Obama's--that prepared the path to conquest. He reveals how once-revered figures like Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers have become mere courtiers to the elite. And based on many newly released court filings, he details the extent of the crimes--there is no other word--committed in the frenzied chase for storied wealth that marked the…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication date: 5/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.94" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




Where We Are Now



Opening Pandora's Box: The Era of Deregulation, 1980-2000



The Bubble, Part One: Borrowing and Lending in the 2000s



Wall Street Makes a Bubble and Gives It to the World



All Fall Down: Warnings, Predators, Crises, Responses



Crime and Punishment: Banking and the Bubble as Criminal Enterprises



Agents of Pain: Unregulated Finance as a Subtractive Industry



The Ivory Tower



America as a Rigged Game



What Should Be Done?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Glossary


Index