The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class
"We’re in a global financial crisis, and Casey has written a truly global book about the winners and losers.The Unfair Tradenot only makes an impressive journalistic effort at explaining how a broken international financial system affects ordinary people around the world but Casey also offers a set of policies for building a more balanced system that will restore trust―and be better prepared to handle the next crisis.  I learned a lot from this remarkable book."―Hernando de Soto, author ofThe Mystery of Capitaland chairman of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru "A compelling indictment of our global financial system.  If you think the size, structure, and incentives of our biggest banks are not a cause for concern, you have not been paying attention.  Michael Casey will set you straight."―Simon Johnson, Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of13 BankersandWhite House Burning "The financial crisis is more than a story of complex securities and big banks.  It is a global crisis and, for all too many, a personal tragedy.  Michael Casey succeeds in making these connections like few others."—Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and author ofExorbitant Privilege.“AWall Street Journalmanaging editor and columnist explains how the distorted policies underlying the global financial system undermine the Average Joes of all nations…A well-reported, deeply serious appraisal of the exceptional damage a dysfunctional system inflicts.”—Kirkus