In Big Dirty Money, the wealthy and powerful describe the shockingly real and tangible harm that befalls normal people when they turn to white-collar crime as a means of acquiring and maintaining riches, social standing, and political power. Profiteers are to blame for the mortgage crisis and the prescription drug abuse epidemic. They have also avoided paying taxes and denied communities access to public funding for infrastructure, public health, and education. Beyond the headlines, which abound, Taub tracks how we arrived at this point (basically, a post-Enron collapse of prosecutorial muscle, the emergence of the “too big to jail” syndrome, and the upper class’s growing implicit immunity) and offers remedies that can help apprehend and convict offenders.
Politics
Big Dirty Money
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“Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class.”– The New York Times
How the affluent and powerful exploit tax havens and legal loopholes to enrich themselves at the expense of regular Americans, and how this may be stopped.
