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Meltdown : how greed and corruption shattered our financial system and how we can recover / Katrina Vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation ; introduction by William Greider.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finance--United States.
- Finance.
- Financial crises--United States.
- Financial crises.
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States.
- United States--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Meltdown
- Melt down
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nation Books, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7867-4363-8
- OCLC:
- 646786615
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