It takes a pillage an epic tale of power, deceit, and untold trillions

"In It Takes A Pillage, former Wall Street insider turned muckraking journalist, Nomi Prins, explains how we have built a new bubble with bigger banks, more leverage, larger bonuses, rampant speculation and fraud, amid extended unemployment and personal financial decline. The cowering of Washin...

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Main Author: Prins, Nomi.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Chichester : Wiley ; John Wiley [distributor], 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface : Apparently it takes more than a pillage
  • Introduction : The more Wall Street changes, the more it stays the same
  • Where'd the bailout money go, exactly?
  • This was never about the little guy
  • Everybody wants to be a bank
  • Government Sachs
  • We already have a bad bank : it's called the Federal Reserve
  • Everyone saw this coming
  • Bonus bonanza
  • Big banks mean big trouble
  • Change, really?
  • The real numbers : bailout, TARP, and CEO compensation