The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn't past but prologue. Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi here unravels the whole fiendish story, digging beyond the headlines to get into the deeper roots and wider implications of the rise of the grifter class, encompassing in this case, the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power, secured by the grifter class - made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding. Taibbi traces the movement's origins to the cult of Ayn Rand and her most influential - and possibly weirdest - acolyte, Alan Greenspan, and offers fresh reporting on the backroom deals that decided the winners and losers in the government bailouts. He uncovers the hidden commodities bubble that transferred billions of the dollars to Wall Street while creating food shortages around the world, and he shows how finance dominates politics, from the story of investment bankers auctioning off America's infrastructure to an inside account of the high-stakes battle for health-care reform - a battle the true reformers lost. And finally, he tells the story of Goldman Sachs, the 'vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.' Note on Sources. 253p.

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Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

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Spiegel & Grau

Fecha de publicaci�n

2010

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0385529953

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9780385529952

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Hardcover

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Good

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The best-selling author of The Great Derangement examines American financial, political and media power and argues that the dramatic series of events that led to the financial crisis also resulted in a complete shift of power to the self-interested elite.

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Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and the author of four previous books, including the New York Times bestseller The Great Derangement. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and the author of four previous books, including the New York Times bestseller the Great Derangement. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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