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Meltdown how greed and corruption shattered our financial system and how we can recover
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- Summary
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From the leading magazine on the left, an exose of the failures, lies and misdeeds that caused the financial collapse-and a plan for rescuing the country.
Details
- Creator
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation ; introduction by William Greider
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Nation Books, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0786743638, 9780253009777, 9780786743636, 9781568584331, 1568584334, 0253009774
- OCLC
- ocn646786615
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Contents; Preface; Introduction: Who Rigged Wall Street? by William Greider; Part One: Seeds of Disaster; Wall Street and Washington: How the Rulesof the Game Have Changed by Steve Fraser; The Looting Decade (Excerpt) by Robert Sherrill; Democratize the Fed? For Startersby Doug Henwood; Breaking Glass-Steagall by Editors of The Nation; The Rise of Market Populism: America's NewSecular Religion by Thomas Frank; Hunting the Predators by Bobbi Murray; The One-Eyed Chairman by William Greider; Part Two: Alarm Bells; Why the Bubble Popped by Robert Sherrill; Bush's House of Cards by Dean Baker
- Leaking Bubble by Doug HenwoodShow Me the Money by Walter Mosley; Monetary Zombies by Nicholas von Hoffman; Henry Paulson's Treasury by Nomi Prins; Born-Again Rubinomics by William Greider; The Loan Shark Lobby by Garrett Ordower; Hedging Bets by Jordan Stancil; Smashing Capitalism by Barbara Ehrenreich; The Housing Bubble Pops by Dean Baker; The Coming Foreclosure Tsunami by Christopher Hayes; The Subprime Swindle by Kai Wright; Lawyers for the Poor Muzzled in Subprime Messby Laura K. Abel; Youth Surviving Subprime by Allison Kilkenny; Is This the Big One? by Jeff Faux
- Part Three: The Crisis HitsThe Panic of 2008 by Editors of The Nation; Bridge Loan to Nowhere byThomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson; Crisis of a Gilded Age by Doug Henwood; Henry Paulson's Shell Game by Joseph E. Stiglitiz; View from Asia by Walden Bello; Born-Again Democracy by William Greider; The Suicide Solution by Barbara Ehrenreich; The Great Depression II by Nicholas von Hoffman; We're All Minskyites Now by Robert Pollin; The Bailout: Bush's Final Pillage by Naomi Klein; Part Four: The Road to Recovery; How to Fix Our Broken Economy by Jeffrey Madrick
- Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Programby Sarah Anderson and Sam PizzigatiTrust but Verify by James K. Galbraith andWilliam K. Black; King George and Comrade Paulson byRalph Nader; A Big Government Bailout by Howard Zinn; Water the Roots by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson; America Needs a New New Deal byKatrina vanden Heuvel and Eric Schlosser; What Do We Want? An Emergency Town HallFeaturing William Greider, Francis Fox Piven,Doug Henwood, Arun Gupta and Naomi Klein.Moderated by Christopher Hayes; The Global Perspective by Will Hutton; How to End the Recession by Robert Pollin
- In Praise of a Rocky Transition by Naomi KleinAcknowledgments; List of Contributors