Summary
"In It Takes A Pillage, former Wall Street insider turned muckraking journalist, Nomi Prins, explains how we have built a new bubble with bigger banks, more leverage, larger bonuses, rampant speculation and fraud, amid extended unemployment and personal financial decline. The cowering of Washington... Full description
- Preface : Apparently it takes more than a pillage
- Introduction : The more Wall Street changes, the more it stays the same
- Where'd the bailout money go, exactly?
- This was never about the little guy
- Everybody wants to be a bank
- Government Sachs
- We already have a bad bank : it's called the Federal Reserve
- Everyone saw this coming
- Bonus bonanza
- Big banks mean big trouble
- Change, really?
- The real numbers : bailout, TARP, and CEO compensation