In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion bailout fund. In vivid …
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In this account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, the author offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. In behind-the-scenes detail, …
Beginning in January 2009, The Payoff lays bare Washington's culture of power and plutocracy. It's the story of the twenty-month struggle by Senator Ted Kaufman and Jeff Connaughton, his chief of staff, to hold Wall Street executives accountable for securities fraud, to stop sto…
"Journalist Danny Schechter investigates a complex web of fraud and crime that he shows played a major, if largely unreported, role in bringing the economy down. His four-year investigation focuses on three interconnected cesspools of corruption."--Publisher's description.
"Journalist Danny Schechter investigates a complex web of fraud and crime that he shows played a major, if largely unreported, role in bringing the economy down. His four-year investigation focuses on three interconnected cesspools of corruption."--Publisher's description.
"Helpfully split into 3 parts, this invaluable book provides a comprehensive and coherent legal analysis of the impact of fraud on marine insurance contracts. Part 1 analyses various market failings, which create a suitable environment for fraud. It is also intended in this part…
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Impostors & impostures featured prominently in the political, social & religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as an impostor, & why? In this book, Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of sources, from judicial archives & other official records to c…
Impostors & impostures featured prominently in the political, social & religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as an impostor, & why? In this book, Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of sources, from judicial archives & other official records to c…
Impostors & impostures featured prominently in the political, social & religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as an impostor, & why? In this book, Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of sources, from judicial archives & other official records to c…
Vice is the true father of Western capitalism, according to Ian Klaus in this fascinating, wildly entertaining, and often startling history of modern finance. Rather than the noble pursuit of gentlemen, international financial affairs in the nineteenth century were conducted in …