Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - Caroline - GoodreadsI confess, I am writing this review before finishing the book because I'm not entirely sure that I need to. The core of this book is informative and horrifying, and has instilled even more paranoia in ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - Andrea - GoodreadsCould have been about 150 pages shorter. Too much repetition but good investigative writing. Ler resenha completa
Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - Louise - GoodreadsFascinating story of the subprime mortgage debacle. The author follows one of the main players, owner of several companies that targeted homeowners to become a billionare starting in the 90's. It's ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - Pat - GoodreadsAn eye-opening indictment of predatory lending and the corporate greed that served as the engine for our Great Recession. While I enjoyed the book, and while it proved its' case magnificently, I can't help but feel that this should have been a long essay rather than a 302 page book. Ler resenha completa
Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - Meepspeeps - GoodreadsHe does a good job of bringing me into the offices of predatory lenders and getting a feel for the degenerative culture, but I think The Big Short was a better story of some of the causes of The Great Recession. Ler resenha completa
Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - Carl Brush - GoodreadsIn The Monster by Michael W. Hudson we have, despite the fact that it's a careful ly researched piece of nonfiction, a true novel of corporate and political crime, crime that reaches to the highest ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - GoodreadsThis was a very entertaining and educating read. I don't know a lot about economy, but this book allows an almost casual access to the topic. An insider might be annoyed by the repetition of names he ...
Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - GoodreadsRead this book. The only way that we are going to get out of the current economic crisis is for people to educate themselves about how we got into this mess: otherwise, we will keep repeating our ...
Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - Jeremy Stephens - GoodreadsWhat I liked most about this book was how it helped put things in perspective- what really caused the 2008 recession and what illegal activities and irresponsible actions lead to so much suffering ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Comentário do usuário - GoodreadsHudson's book details the history of subprime lending in the United States, shows how deception played a key role in its boom years, and examines the ways in which major subprime players used their ...
