Pre-Owned Billionaires' Ball : Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality (Hardcover) 9780807003398

from 06nwingert

Billionaires' Ball is a detailed examination of how billionaires and other super-rich abuse the tax system to "earn" their money and screw the rest of us. Linda McQuiag and Neil Brooks make the case that the uber wealthy don't deserve their money because they don't earn it, especially in comparis...

from kurvanas

Billionaires' Ball is the latest (sad that the relentless lawless trend in America continues to generate the need for such examinations) book to examine the outrages and criminality that have beset Wall St in recent years. A very nice comparison to the Gilded Age and the policies that brought abo...

from Wabbit98

With a slumping economy, low wages and little growth; many people are wondering how did this happen? The authors of this work blame the bankers and the billionaires for the troubles. When it should be more the people who went after mortgages when they knew they could not pay it back, people who k...

from Illiniguy71

McQuaig and Brooks explain in detail just how unequal the distribution of both income and wealth have become in America in the last three decades, why this came about, and why it is so damaging to the country. All this they explain in a way that is clear, cogent, and understandable by any intelli...

from Illiniguy71

McQuaig and Brooks explain in detail just how unequal the distribution of both income and wealth have become in America in the last three decades, why this came about, and why it is so damaging to the country. All this they explain in a way that is clear, cogent, and understandable by any intelli...