The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street is Not Too Big To Jail
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (832 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00499DSAC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 117 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Brilliant. Plunder: The Crime of Our Time The above title is a movie available on dvd produced by the author. It is selling quite well and is well reviewed. After reading about it & the reviews, I have decided to buy the dvd, at least.The stars I gave it are fictional as I have not yet read the book, nor seen the documentary.They cover an important field and the author is highly credible.. James Osborn said No sales, no hope.. I enquired about this book when I saw the author was a contributor to the Al Jazeerah website. Schechter's book "The Crime of Our Time" has been out for 16 months. No reviews. What is wrong? Has no one bought the book? Have those who bought the book not read it? None of this bodes well for the book!
A harsh judgment, but it's not easy to dismiss the case that he constructs." --Noam Chomsky. Not errors, accident, market uncertainties, and so on, but crime: major and serious crime. "Schechter goes right for the jugular in this rich and informative analysis of the financial crisis and its roots
Veteran 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: what the FBI calls an "epidemic of mortgage fraud," predatory and deceptive securitization by Wall Street, and insurance scams.
He is a multiple Emmy Award winner, having been a producer for ABC News, CNN and other major networks. His daily blog News Dissector' appears on MediaChannel, the website he edits, with weekly online commentaries on Huffington Post, Buzzflash, Alternet, Global Research, ZNet, Creative-I and many others. . He has directed numerous films including In Debt We Trust and Plunder; The Crime of our Time. Dann