The looting of America
Subtitle: how Wall Street's game of fantasy finance destroyed our jobs, pensions, and prosperity, and what we can do about it
By: Les Leopold.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: White River Junction, Vt
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781603582056
Subjects: Finance -- United States; Financial crises -- United States; United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-; United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The hooking of Whitefish Bay; title: The iron law of fantasy finance; title: Is there a dime's bit of difference between Wall Street's "innovation" and gambling?; title: Learning and unlearning the lessons of the Great Depression; title: The oracle blesses derivatives, the newest game in the casino; title: Getting the story backwards; title: Financial weapons of mass destruction; title: Fantasy finance meets reality: the great crash of 2008; title: The end of fantasy finance?; title: Proposals Wall Street won't like; title: Proposals Wall Street really won't like.