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Greedy Bastards

“Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry” is a rant with policy undertones by a mad-as-hell Dylan Ratigan. Ratigan, host of MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show, is infuriated by government corruption and corporate communism, incensed by “banksters” shaking down taxpayers, and despairing of an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a…  More About: Greedy Bastards

Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works

From the moment President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, a steady and mounting avalanche of misinformation about the law has left a growing majority of Americans confused about what it is, why it’s necessary, and how it works. With cartoon illustrations by Nathan Schreiber, Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works presents solid information about…  More About: Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works

Living Large in Lean Times

“Living Large in Lean Times” is consumer advocate Clark Howard’s comprehensive guide to saving money, covering cell phones to student loans, coupon websites to mortgages, investing to electric bills and more. Howard, Atlanta-based host of a talk radio and TV show and founder of the website clarkhoward.com, has lots of consumer advice to share, His advice includes how to locate missing and unclaimed money in…  More About: Living Large in Lean Times

Scammed

Once upon a time store prices were simple and fair, businesses stood behind their products with guarantees free of fine print and loopholes, and companies genuinely seemed to care about their valued customers—but those days are long gone. In his new exposé, consumer advocate Christopher Elliot details the broken relationship between American consumers and businesses and explains how companies came to believe that fooling their…  More About: Scammed

The Filter Bubble

Eli Pariser sees personalization as the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years. In this investigation of the new “hidden” Web, Pariser uncovers how this growing trend threatens to control how we as a society consume and share information.

Though the phenomenon has gone largely undetected, personalized filters are sweeping the Web, creating individual universes of information for each…  More About: The Filter Bubble

Your Money: The Missing Manual

J.D. Roth is the creator of the popular GetRichSlowly.org personal-finance advice blog that opines on personal finance topics far and wide. The topics covered include advice on making sensible decisions on saving, spending, and investing, the best ways to set and achieve financial goals, setting up a realistic budget framework and learn how to track expenses, eliminating debt, using credit wisely, smart buying on…  More About: Your Money: The Missing Manual

Join the Club

You have the power to change the world. In Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg identifies a brewing social revolution that is changing the way people live, based on harnessing the positive force of peer pressure. Her stories of peer power in action show how it has reduced teen smoking in the United States, made villages in India healthier and more prosperous, helped minority students get…  More About: Join the Club

The Haves and the Have-Nots

Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you’ll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why—beyond the idle curiosity—do these questions even matter?

In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, an expert on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, writes about how wealth is—and always has been—unevenly spread throughout…  More About: The Haves and the Have-Nots

The Monster

The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis tells the story of the rise and fall of subprime lending by chronicling the rise and fall of two corporate empires: Ameriquest and Lehman Brothers. It is a true-crime exposé of the subprime salesmen and Wall Street alchemists who produced the biggest financial scandal in American history.

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BROKE, USA

This is a report from the economic fringes by Gary Rivlin, who spent two years writing this expose of the “poverty industry.”  While doing his research, Rivlin hung out at the annual check cashers convention, spent time in Tennessee with the small-town debt collector who founded the $40-billion-a-year payday cash advance industry, and met with a number of mercenary entrepreneurs who are getting tens of…  More About: BROKE, USA

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