| Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal Contributor(s): Schechter, Danny (Author), Manning, Robert (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 1605203157 ISBN-13: 9781605203157 Publisher: Cosimo OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Schechter calls for an investigation of those behind the engineered subprime scheme and indicts the regulators who enabled the crisis and the media that missed it. He advocates a debt-relief movement in America and argues that such a movement would resonate across the political spectrum. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Conspiracy Theories - Business & Economics | Banks & Banking - Business & Economics | Real Estate - Mortgages |
| Dewey: 338.542 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.46" W x 8.54" (0.68 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth teller in the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmaker with the award-winning independent company Globalvision. A graduate of Cornell and the London School of Economics, Schechter was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a multiple Emmy Award winner at ABC News, where he was among the first to cover the S&L crisis. In 2007, his film IN DEBT WE TRUST wasthe first to expose Wall Street's connection to subprime loans, predicting the economic crisis that this book investigates. Schechter is a blogger, editor of Mediachannel.org, and author of nine books. He has reported from 53 countries, and lives in Gotham. He owns no derivatives or tranches. |