Author: Gary Wei
Publisher: Portfolio Trade
Keywords: fakers, charlatans, ripping, thieves, muckraking, street, versus, america, wall
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1591841631
ISBN-13: 9781591841630

Gary Weiss, one of the business world?s most dogged investigative reporters, has written the definitive book about the dark side of Wall Street?not just a few bad apples, but the whole rotten barrel. This is the outrageous, riveting, darkly funny story of what really happens in every corner of the financial system: from Internet tip sites and boiler rooms, to fee-happy mutual funds and hedge funds, to the bluest of blue-chip securities firms. With vivid anecdotes and character studies, Wall Street Versus America will show you how investors are consistently victimized?while sleepy regulators, b

Author: Cecelia Tichi
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: personal, takes, america, muckraking, excess, exposes
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2003-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0812237633
ISBN-13: 9780812237634

From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century—mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently needed change. The compelling narratives of the muckrakers—Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker among them—became bestsellers and prizewinners a hundred years