It takes a pillage

behind the bailouts, bonuses, and backroom deals from Washington to Wall Street

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Nomi Prins: It takes a pillage (2009, Wiley)

296 pages

English language

Published Aug. 27, 2009 by Wiley.

ISBN:
978-0-470-52959-1
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4 stars (1 review)

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4 stars

To be honest I mostly skimmed this book. While this book reads easier than Other People's Money (and it shorter), it is still incredibly dense and detailed. I generally could do well when she was writing in a more general sense about what was happening, but when she began to write about individual people it just got difficult to keep track of them.

But it's great way to show exactly how these individuals create country wide chaos, but I may not always remember the names throughout the book is all.

The concepts brought up here are different than Other's People Money, the themes are the same because...well greed. It's just done in a different way this time.

Generally a well thought out and informative book.

Subjects

  • Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century
  • Intervention (Federal government) -- United States -- History -- 21st century
  • Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century