Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal - Softcover

Schechter, Danny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605203157 ISBN 13: 9781605203157

Publisher: Cosimo Books, 2008

Synopsis

Danny Schechter, Emmy-Award investigative journalist, film producer and author, has been one of the earliest pundits warning about the current crisis. In his 2006 film, IN DEBT WE TRUST, Schechter exposed the role Wall Street played in promoting deceptive and dodgy subprime lending. In Plunder: Investigating our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, he documents the causes, from Wall Street greed to the failure of government and the media.

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From the Back Cover:

From the author of THE MORE YOU WATCH THE LESS YOU KNOW, NEWS DISSECTOR and WHEN NEWS LIES

Americans under a burden that many will never crawl out of.

* PLUNDER identifies some of the profiteers and calls for an investigation of those behind this shrewdly engineered subprime scheme. * PLUNDER indicts the regulators who enabled the crisis and the media that missed it. * PLUNDER advocates a debt-relief movement in America and argues that such a movement would resonate across the political spectrum.

From the Inside Flap:

Other Comments about Danny Schechter:

"In the era of the incredibly shrinking sound bite, Producer Danny Schechter stands apart." - The Associated Press

"As News Dissector on Boston Radio, Danny Schechter literally educated a generation." - Noam Chomsky

"We need 50, 100, 1000 Danny Schechters. And we need everyone to take his words to heart." - Robert W. McChesney, Media Historian

About this edition

• Publisher: Cosimo Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605203157
• ISBN 13: 9781605203157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236