Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal

ISBN-13: 9781605203157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str.

Danny Schechter; Robert Manning

Opis

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

DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth tellerin the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmakerwith the award-winning independent company Globalvision. A graduate ofCornell and the London School of Economics, Schechter was a Nieman Fellowat Harvard and a multiple Emmy Award winner at ABC News, where he wasamong the first to cover the S&L crisis. In 2007, his film IN DEBT WE TRUST wasthe first to expose Wall Streets connection to subprime loans, predicting the economic crisis that this book investigates. Schechter is a blogger, editor of Mediachannel.org, and author of nine books. He has reported from 53 countries, and lives in Gotham. He owns no derivatives or tranches.