"When
plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men,
they create for themselves,
in the course of time,
a legal system that authorizes it,
and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Political economist Frederic Bastiat,
The Law [1850]
“I
used to think of Wall Street as a financial center.
I now think of it as a crime scene.” – Filmmaker Danny Schecter, Plunder (2009)
The
Author
DANNY
SCHECHTER, “The
News Dissector,” has spent decades as a truth teller in
the media. He
has worked in print, radio, local news, cable news (CNN and
CNBC), network news magazines (ABC) and as an independent filmmaker
and TV producer with the award-winning independent company,
Globalvision.
His
film “IN
DEBT WE TRUST” (2006) was the first to expose Wall Street’s
connection to subprime loans, predicting the economic crisis
that this book investigates.
