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Clearly exposes the battle between personal gain and individual integrity and provides a comprehensive overview of whitecollar crime in american society. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read inside job. Farrell talked about new evidence that casts doubt on the adolf hitler suicide story related article. Fitts documents how trillions of dollars went missing from government coffers in the 90s and how she was personally targeted for exposing the fraud. The young who feel the need to rebel and become farleft need to read his true account. An academic paper in the early 1990s had predicted the behavior of the banks when it came to relying on the government to absorb their. Civil unrest can severely disrupt your life for days, even weeks. White collar crime and the looting of america 6th edition. Bush catherine austin fitts blows the whistle on how the financial terrorists have deliberately imploded the us economy and transferred gargantuan amounts of wealth offshore as a means of sacrificing the american middle class. Review the looting of america by paul lappen submitted on february 02, 2010 the looting of america. Instead, readers will discover how wall street undermined itself and the rest of the economy by playing and losing a highly lucrative and dangerous game of fantasy finance. Land flipping and dirt dealing 101 clintonian land scamming the dirt dealing gurus hand book this site is by no means exhaustive and is merely a sampling of the many. Inside job gives a perfect insight into the notso perfect world of corporate america, blatantly under the influence of gary hank paulson, ceo of goldman sachs. The result of leopold s work, the looting of america.
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