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The payoff : why Wall Street always wins /

Beginning in January 2009, The Payoff lays bare Washington's culture of power and plutocracy. It's the story of the twenty-month struggle by Senator Ted Kaufman and Jeff Connaughton, his chief of staff, to hold Wall Street executives accountable for securities fraud, to stop stock manipula...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Connaughton, Jeff, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, CT : Prospecta Press, [2012]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Financial crises > United States > History > 21st century.
Securities fraud > United States > History > 21st century.
Political corruption > United States > History > 21st century.
Lobbying > United States.
Kaufman, Edward E., > 1939-
Stock exchanges > Law and legislation > United States.
Financial institutions > Law and legislation > United States.
Investment banking > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The Accidental Senator
  • Hunting for Financial Fraud
  • "Please Stay Involved in Politics"
  • Where are the Cases?
  • Lehman and WaMu
  • What Had Gone Wrong?
  • Wall Street Vetoes the President
  • Inside the Influence Industry
  • Capital of Hypocrisy
  • The Blob
  • The Rise of the Machines
  • The Flash Crash
  • Waterloo
  • Battling the Megabanks
  • Still Too Big to Fail.