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Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? This book answers this great economic question, revealing how today's government policies and spending benefit the wealthy. Johnston shows how, under the guise of deregulation, a whole new set of regulations quietly went into effect--thwarting competition, depressing wages, and rewarding misconduct. Revelations...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Language
English
Description
In this account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. In behind-the-scenes detail, he reveals proof of the extreme degree to which our government officials bent over backward to serve the interests of Wall Street firms at the expense of the broader public--and...
Author
Series
Worldwatch paper volume 133
Publisher
Worldwatch Institute
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
[U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of the Chief Economist]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive review of changes in the condition of production agriculture in the United States since the date of enactment of Title I of the FAIR Act, the Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA).