The Looting of America Or the Science of Gold
Author : Clarence D. Nagle
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File Size : 28,97 MB
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Category : Banks and banking
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Author : Clarence D. Nagle
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
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Category : Banks and banking
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Author : Mehrsa Baradaran
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1324091177
“[A]ccessible and intellectually rich . . . Essential reading to understand the economic state of the nation.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred) The celebrated legal scholar and author of The Color of Money reveals how neoliberals rigged American law, creating widespread distrust, inequality, and injustice. With the nation lurching from one crisis to the next, many Americans believe that something fundamental has gone wrong. Why aren’t college graduates able to achieve financial security? Why is government completely inept in the face of natural disasters? And why do pundits tell us that the economy is strong even though the majority of Americans can barely make ends meet? In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran, one of our leading public intellectuals, argues that the system is in fact rigged toward the powerful, though it wasn’t the work of evil puppet masters behind the curtain. Rather, the rigging was carried out by hundreds of (mostly) law-abiding lawyers, judges, regulators, policy makers, and lobbyists. Adherents of a market-centered doctrine called neoliberalism, these individuals, over the course of decades, worked to transform the nation—and succeeded. They did so by changing the law in unseen ways. Tracing this largely unknown history from the late 1960s to the present, Baradaran demonstrates that far from yielding fewer laws and regulations, neoliberalism has in fact always meant more—and more complex—laws. Those laws have uniformly benefited the wealthy. From the work of a young Alan Greenspan in creating "Black Capitalism," to Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell’s efforts to unshackle big money donors, to the establishment of the "Law and Economics" approach to legal interpretation—in which judges render opinions based on the principles of right-wing economics—Baradaran narrates the key moments in the slow-moving coup that was, and is, neoliberalism. Shifting our focus away from presidents and national policy, she tells the story of how this nation’s?laws?came to favor the few against the many, threatening the integrity of the market and the state. Some have claimed that the neoliberal era is behind us. Baradaran shows that such thinking is misguided. Neoliberalism is a failed economic idea—it doesn’t, in fact, create more wealth or more freedom. But it has been successful nevertheless, by seizing the courts and enabling our age of crypto fraud, financial instability, and accelerating inequality. An original account of the forces that have brought us to this dangerous moment in American history, The Quiet Coup reshapes our understanding of the recent past and lights a path toward a better future.
Author : F G Claudet
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781020173943
An informative and comprehensive guide to all things gold, offering insights into its physical properties, its extraction and refinement processes, and its value in different contexts throughout history. This engaging book is sure to fascinate anyone interested in the history and science of precious metals. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Paul Robert Walker
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0753465841
This book covers the entire period of the boom-and-bust of one of the greatest expansion periods in U.S. history--from the dangers of the journey to the rough and tumble of the mining settlements. Full color.
Author : Peggy Seagrave
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1789605237
In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This 'Black Gold' gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years.
Author : Arthur Lakes
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2018-10-10
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ISBN : 9780342065080
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Social sciences
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Page : 1556 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Political science
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Author : Julie Jones
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Indian goldwork
ISBN : 0821215949
Author : R. A. F. Penrose
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Page : 190 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Gold mines and mining
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