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Author Leopold, Les.

Title The looting of America : how Wall Street's game of fantasy finance destroyed our jobs, pensions, and prosperity, and what we can do about it / Les Leopold.

Imprint White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  332 L555l 2009    ---  Available
Description xvii, 219 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.
Contents The hooking of Whitefish Bay -- The iron law of fantasy finance -- Is there a dime's bit of difference between Wall Street's "innovation" and gambling? -- Learning and unlearning the lessons of the Great Depression -- The oracle blesses derivatives, the newest game in the casino -- Getting the story backwards -- Financial weapons of mass destruction -- Fantasy finance meets reality : the Great Crash of 2008 -- The end of fantasy finance? -- Proposals Wall Street won't like -- Proposals Wall Street really won't like.
Subject Finance -- United States.
Financial crises -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.
United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009.
ISBN 9781603582056 (pbk.) : $14.95
1603582053 (pbk.)
Standard No. BWX R8785239
CDX 9949363
AU@ 000044071903

 
    
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