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Leopold, Les
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Finance
Financial crises
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009
United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009
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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.
by
Leopold, Les
White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2009.
Subjects
Finance
Financial crises
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009
United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009
ISBN:
9781603582056 (pbk.)
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.
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xvii, 219 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0909/2009014181-b.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0909/2009014181-d.html
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.
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