How we got swindled by Wall Street godfathers, greed & financial Darwinism the 30-year war agaisnt the American dream
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[New York] :
Riverrun Press
cop. 2010
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Social Darwinism practiced by "Robber Barons" and pyramid builders
- Financial Darwinism is born again social Darwinism
- Party principles vs. human considerations- Democrats vs. Republicans who just say no
- Housing prices in free fall or in a return to value, commercial is rotten too
- Greedy deregulated banks abandoned prudence and reason for fees and bonuses
- Wall Street: financial investment versus real investment, the only ethic is survival of the richest
- Appraisers and raters drove the getaway cars
- Self-serving regulators serve the self-interested ultra rich
- Financial engineering- the quantification of risk myth
- "Too complex to explain" financial instruments: derivatives, CDOs, CMOs, swaps, and randic tranches- pools of worse than junk bond debt
- Risk reduction, a financial engineering faith-based hoax
- Risk measurement simplified
- Haute degrees and social standing do not equal judgment or ethics
- Arcane professional nomenclature utilized to obfuscate and sell empty promises
- The insidious use and abuse of language by allowing it to shape thought
- The financial media- reporters or shills? Pbjective media- a casualry of the war!
- Malfeasance- the omission of significant information constitutes fraud
- Executive compensation, reasonable or disgusting: tax laws promote bonuses not dividends; no enforcement of TRS sec. 162(m)
- Establish economic fairness and stability by rising up against financial Darwinists.
