Collusion : how central bankers rigged the world / Nomi Prins.
By: Prins, Nomi [author.].
Publisher: New York : Nation Books, 2018Edition: First edition.Description: xix, 358 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781568585628.Other title: How central bankers rigged the world.Subject(s): Banks and banking, Central | Financial crises -- Effect of monetary policy on | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009Genre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HG1811 .P75 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012990 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-341) and index.
Introduction -- Mexico : there's no wall against US financial crises -- Brazil : national politics meets the Federal Reserve meets China -- China : dragon rising -- Japan : conjured money incubator -- Europe Part I : the Trichet files -- Europe Part II : the Draghi files -- Conclusion : the end is just the beginning.
"Central banks and institutions like the IMF and the World Bank are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates by using the flow of money to control global markets and dictate economic policy both at the domestic and global level. These public institutions have become so dependent on funding from private banking and the revolving door between the two worlds is so smooth that public and private banks are effectively working toward the same goals. Packed with bold-faced names from the world of finance--from Janet Yellen, Mario Draghi, and Ben Bernanke to Christine Lagarde and Angela Merkel--Collusion sheds a bright light on the dark conspiracies and unsavory connections between what is ostensibly private and public banking and how it affects us"--