Makers and Takers
The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by Rana Foroohar
Recommended by Tim O’Reilly and Tim O_x0092_Reilly
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Economics, Most Recommended Books, and Finance.
Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned?and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis. But what few of us realize is how the misguided fina...
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