The crisis gripping financial markets in late 2008 had brought about multiple bank failures,
both investment and commercial, in the USA and Europe, as well as insolvency of the …

An engaging look at what led to the financial turmoil we now find ourselves in Bailout Nation
offers one of the clearest looks at the financial lenders, regulators, and politicians …

Credit and debt appear to be natural, permanent facets of Americans' lives, but a debt-based
economy and debt-financed lifestyles are actually recent inventions. In 1951 Diners Club …

An in-depth exploration and exposé of the predatory nature of the student loan industry Alan
Collinge never imagined he would become a student loan justice activist. He planned to …

Robodebt describes the automated process of matching the Australian Taxation Office's
income data with social welfare recipients' reports of income to Centrelink. Discrepancies …

The book explores the role of governments and development finance institutions in
managing the markets in which the poorest countries operate. These institutions-the'Great …

The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of
exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between …

Increasing access to diverse types of credit and spreading indebtedness across many social
groups were significant economic developments of the twentieth century and into the twenty …

For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has
helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging …