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How Wall Street Fleeces America

Author : Stephen Lendman
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 0985271019
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book How Wall Street Fleeces America written by Stephen Lendman and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1913 Federal Reserve Act let powerful bankers usurp money creation authority in violation of the Constitution's Article I, Section 8, giving only Congress the power to "coin Money (and) regulate the Value thereof...." Thereafter, powerful bankers used their control over money, credit and debt for private self-enrichment, bankrolling and colluding with Congress and administrations to implement laws favoring them. As a result, decades of deregulation, outsourcing, economic financialization, and casino capitalism followed, producing asset bubbles, record budget and national debt levels, and depression-sized unemployment far higher than reported numbers, albeit manipulated to look better. After the financial crisis erupted in late 2007, even harder times have left Main Street in the early stages of a depression, with recovery pure illusion. Today's contagion has spread out of control, globally. Wall Street got trillions of dollars in a desperate attempt to socialize losses, privatize profits, and pump life back into the corpses by blowing public wealth into a moribund financial sector, failing corporate favorites, and America's aristocracy. While Wall Street boasts it has recovered, industrial America keeps imploding. High-paying jobs are exported. Economic prospects are eroding. Austerity is being imposed, with no one sure how to revive stable, sustainable long-term growth. This book provides a powerful tool for showing angry Americans how they've been fleeced, and includes a plan for constructive change.

Normalized Financial Wrongdoing

Author : Harland Prechel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503614468
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Normalized Financial Wrongdoing written by Harland Prechel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Normalized Financial Wrongdoing, Harland Prechel examines how social structural arrangements that extended corporate property rights and increased managerial control opened the door for misconduct and, ultimately, the 2008 financial crisis. Beginning his analysis with the financialization of the home-mortgage market in the 1930s, Prechel shows how pervasive these arrangements had become by the end of the century, when the bank and energy sectors developed political strategies to participate in financial markets. His account adopts a multilevel approach that considers the political and legal landscapes in which corporations are embedded to answer two questions: how did banks and financial firms transition from being providers of capital to financial market actors? Second, how did new organizational structures cause market participants to engage in high-risk activities? After careful historical analysis, Prechel examines how organizational and political-legal arrangements contribute to current record-high income and wealth inequality, and considers societal preconditions for change.

Wall Street

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199912742
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Wall Street written by Charles R. Geisst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street is an unending source of legend--and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at once a chronicle of the street itself--from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant--and an engaging economic history of the United States, a tale of profits and losses, enterprising spirits, and key figures that transformed America into the most powerful economy in the world. The book traces many themes, like the move of industry and business westward in the early 19th century, the rise of the great Robber Barons, and the growth of industry from the securities market's innovative financing of railroads, major steel companies, and Bell's and Edison's technical innovations. And because "The Street" has always been a breeding ground for outlandish characters with brazen nerve, no history of the stock market would be complete without a look at the conniving of ruthless wheeler-dealers and lesser known but influential rogues. This updated edition covers the historic, almost apocalyptic events of the 2008 financial crisis and the overarching policy changes of the Obama administration. As Wall Street and America have changed irrevocably after the crisis, Charles R. Geisst offers the definitive chronicle of the relationship between the two, and the challenges and successes it has fostered that have shaped our history.

The Relativity of Deviance

Author : John Curra
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483377334
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Relativity of Deviance written by John Curra and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and informative book, by award-winning sociologist and criminologist John Curra, offers a valuable perspective on attitudes and behaviors labeled as deviant. The Relativity of Deviance, Fourth Edition, explores the meanings and constructions of social deviance and social reactions to it, he answers such questions as: What is deviance? What comprises deviant behavior? How are deviants treated? How is deviance socially constructed and socially sustained? Why is the same attitude, behavior, or condition praised in one situation and condemned in another? Through insightful and thought-provoking examples and informed accounts, the author illustrates that deviance cannot be explained or understood in terms of absolutes or essential characteristics nor can it be explained or understood apart from its social setting. This book approaches sex, violence, theft, drugs, suicide, rape, and mental disorders in a way that shows the critical role of sociocultural factors and social reactions in constructions of deviance and crime.

The Illegal War on Libya

Author : Cynthia McKinney
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 0985335327
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Illegal War on Libya written by Cynthia McKinney and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, former Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney, took a delegation of observers to Libya to monitor NATO�s purported humanitarian intervention. Prefaced by Ramsey Clark, this collection of essays includes scholarly and legal analysis, as well as personal accounts by witnesses to the NATO assault on a helpless civilian population it had a UN mandate to protect, and the massive media propaganda campaign that made it possible. It responds to the many questions left unanswered by a complicit mainstream media, such as: � Why Libya, not Bahrain, Yemen or Egypt? � What was life in Libya like under Qadhafi? � What is the truth about the so-called �Black Mercenaries”? � What was the role of Western NGOs and the International Criminal Court? � What about Africom�s Plans for Africa? � What did it have to do with Liby�a independent central bank, its oil, its plans for an African currency, its efforts to free African states from the coils of the Bretton Woods Institutions? Cynthia McKinney and other contributors to this volume were in Libya during the period of the NATO bombardment of Libyan cities, and were among the few independent voices to report on the tragedy.

America's Textile Reporter

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book America's Textile Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 99%

Author : Don Hazen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963368720
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book The 99% written by Don Hazen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wall Street Point of View

Author : Henry Clews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall Street Point of View written by Henry Clews and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Every Man a Speculator

Author : Steve Fraser
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061873365
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Every Man a Speculator written by Steve Fraser and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Big, boisterous, biting, and brilliant, this cultural history of Wall Street exposes Americans’ naughty ambition to worship both God and mammon.” —Walter A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Americans have experienced a love-hate relationship with Wall Street for two hundred years. Long an object of suspicion, fear, and even revulsion, the Street eventually came to be seen as an alluring pathway to wealth and freedom. Steve Fraser tells the story of this remarkable transformation in a brilliant, masterfully written narrative filled with colorful tales of confidence men and aristocrats, Napoleonic financiers and reckless adventurers, master builders and roguish destroyers. Penetrating and engrossing, this is an extraordinary work of history that illuminates the values and the character of our nation. “A rollicking history . . . Fraser affords us a panoramic view of decades of high endeavor and low greed.” —Harold Evans, The New York Times Book Review “Steve Fraser’s remarkable book on Wall Street explores nothing less than the history of capitalist culture in the United States.” —Sean Wilentz, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University “Written with verve, passion, and a remarkable command of vast historical literature, Every Man a Speculator illuminates Americans’ tortured relationship with Wall Street, from the days of Alexander Hamilton to the bubbles and frauds of the last few years.” —Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University “An illuminating tour of how the United States has perceived its financial center over two centuries through the eyes of its political leaders, novelists, moviemakers, preachers, cartoonists, ordinary citizens and a host of others.” —The Washington Post

Wall Street Versus America

Author : Gary Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322747231
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Wall Street Versus America written by Gary Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Wall Street Reshaped America's Destiny

Author : Robert Zuccaro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781716546198
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book How Wall Street Reshaped America's Destiny written by Robert Zuccaro and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Zuccaro, the founder of Target Investors, traces the history of the stock market, beginning in lower Manhattan in 1792 when a group of brokers crafted the Buttonwood Agreement. The pact led to the forerunner of the New York Stock Exchange. The journey continues into the heyday of the railroad, telegraph, telephone, automobile, radio and movie industries, and concludes with the computer and internet era. This saga moves along quickly and is peppered with fascinating historic facts. Wall Street even played a decisive role in the outcome of the Civil War by raising huge sums of money for the Union. The South, not having Wall Street in tow, was limited to printing paper currency, which led its economy to collapse. Wall Street's long history of bull markets, bear markets, financial crises missteps and even terrorist attacks are all covered in this exciting journey.

Eyewitness to Wall Street

Author : David Colbert
Publisher : Broadway
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness to Wall Street written by David Colbert and published by Broadway. This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on diaries, private letters, memoirs, and reportage, David Colbert's acclaimed Eyewitness books offer extraordinary first-hand views of history's pivotal moments. Eyewitness to Wall Street's combination of remarkable perspectives and a subject of exceptional current interest results in the richest and most illuminating Eyewitness book yet.From our first IPO -- the European fund-raising that launched America's colonization -- through today's mass obsession with the Dow and Nasdaq, Eyewitness to Wall Street brims with accounts from people who saw it happen -- poets and speculators, patriots and criminals, politicians and reporters -- including Daniel Defoe, Mark Twain, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warren Buffet, and Michael Lewis. It reveals how Wall Street traders saved the Continental Army from bankruptcy and helped finance the Union during the Civil War; how Americans were suckered by the bull market of early 1929 and struggled through the rebuilding of modern Wall Street. More than halfthe book is devoted to the contemporary era, defined by the "greed is good" 1980s, the bull market 1990s, and the dot-com millionaires and infla

Wall Street Versus America

Author : Gary Weiss
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110121631X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Wall Street Versus America written by Gary Weiss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking appraisal that shows how Wall Street is intrinsically corrupt—and what individual investors can do to protect themselves For several years high-profile corporate wrongdoers have been vilified by the media. Yet the problem, according to Gary Weiss, is not just a few isolated instances of malfeasance. The problem is in the very fabric of Wall Street and its practices that enable and even encourage corruption—practices that are so pervasive and so difficult to combat that they are in effect perfect crimes, with the small investor left holding the bag. In this blistering report from the front, Weiss describes how the ethos of Mafia chophouses, boiler rooms, and penny stock peddlers now permeates all of Wall Street. Protected from investor lawsuits by laughably corrupt arbitration systems, Wall Street firms are free to fleece unsuspecting clients with little or no risk. But as this empowering book shows, ordinary investors can fight back and come out on top—if they learn to recognize warning signs, filter media chatter, and spot looming corporate meltdowns in advance. Prepare to be surprised, get angry, and then get even. Wall Street Versus America is a wild ride you can’t afford to miss.

On Corruption in America

Author : Sarah Chayes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525563938
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book On Corruption in America written by Sarah Chayes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future. “If you want to save America, this might just be the most important book to read now." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, that the United States is showing signs similar to some of the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption, she argues, is an operating system of sophisticated networks in which government officials, key private-sector interests, and out-and-out criminals interweave. Their main objective: not to serve the public but to maximize returns for network members. In this unflinching exploration of corruption in America, Chayes exposes how corruption has thrived within our borders, from the titans of America's Gilded Age (Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929, the Great Depression, and FDR's New Deal; from Joe Kennedy's years of banking, bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution--undermining this nation's proud middle class and union members. She then brings us up to the present as she shines a light on the Clinton policies of political favors and personal enrichment and documents Trump's hydra-headed network of corruption, which aimed to systematically undo the Constitution and our laws. Ultimately and most importantly, Chayes reveals how corrupt systems are organized, how they enable bad actors to bend the rules so their crimes are covered legally, how they overtly determine the shape of our government, and how they affect all levels of society, especially when the corruption is overlooked and downplayed by the rich and well-educated.

The American Title Insurance Industry

Author : Joseph W Eaton
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814722466
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The American Title Insurance Industry written by Joseph W Eaton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, banks and other mortgage lenders began requiring insurance to protect them against flawed or defective real estate titles. Over the past sixty years, the title insurance industry has grown steadily in size, power, and secrecy: policies are available for both lenders and property owners and many title insurers offer an array of other real estate services, such as escrow and appraisal. Yet details about the industry’s operational procedures remain closely guarded from public exposure. In The American Title Insurance Industry, Joseph and David Eaton present evidence that improvements in recordkeeping over the last sixty years—particularly the advent of computers—have reduced the likelihood of a defective title going unnoticed in a property transaction. But the industry’s flaws run deeper than mere obsolescence: in most states, title insurers are allowed to engage in anticompetitive business practices, including price-fixing. Among the findings in this meticulously researched study are instances of insurers charging premiums well above the amount necessary to compensate them for assuming the risk of defect and identical policies with identical risk that vary in price by hundreds of percentage points for different geographic locations. The authors also examine the widely ignored role that the federal and most state governments play in perpetuating the title insurance industry’s unfair practices. Whereas most private industries prefer as little government intervention as possible, title insurers welcome it. Federal statue exempts title insurers from anti-trust liability, opening the door for price-fixing and destroying any semblance of free-market competition or market power for consumers. A landmark study for elected officials, and all those involved in the insurance, real estate, and brokerage industries, The American Title Insurance Industry brings to light a long-neglected problem—and offers suggestions for how it might be remedied.

Bradstreet's

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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The Downfall of America

Author : Thomas Abrams
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781683191193
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Downfall of America written by Thomas Abrams and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacrifice is a poor man''s equality, not his dignity. The Twenty-First-Century Lobbyist encompasses over two hundred years of financially manipulating the Constitution for the master''s bidding. The term "Black Tuesday" exposed the five-syllable banner "deregulation," which introduced an unfathomable nightmare, the year 1929; it was an inferno spiraling into the twenty-first century. The year 2008, deregulation without bearing, devoured the liquidity of we the people! Wall Street Lobbyists eclipsed a shattering prose of a ravenous decline that crossed overflowing lines, as real estate stocks plummeted, securities set the deficit beyond 20 trillion without a trace of stimulus. What lingered was not vision or survival, for deregulation prevails the gambit without concern. Illicit was the belligerence of those godly few who rode the hordes of tormented masses, for contempt did with full intent scribed its flare onto the First Amendment; the stench of inversion lingers, a musty reminder. We endured without a whimper as those learned scholars of judicial review relinquished our domain and the vote!