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    Architects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy--and How They Will Do It Again If No One Stops Them

    Architects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy--and How They Will Do It Again If No One Stops Them

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    by Peter Schweizer


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      ISBN-13: 9780061976308
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Publication date: 10/06/2009
    • Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 240
    • File size: 340 KB

    Peter Schweizer is the author of Extortion, Throw Them All Out, Architects of Ruin, and other books that have revealed political wrongdoing, and has been featured on 60 Minutes, in the New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the cofounder and president of the Government Accountability Institute, a team of investigative researchers and journalists committed to exposing crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction: A Failure of Capitalism-or Liberal Social Engineering? ix

    1 The Robin Hood Agenda 1

    How a Gang of Radical Activists and Liberal Politicians Set the Stage for the Biggest Bank Heist in History

    2 $4 Trillion Shakedown: The Left's Activist Jihad Against American Banks 28

    3 The Clinton Crusade: How Democrats Made Credit a Civil Right 46

    4 Cover Your Fannie: How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Were Taken Over by Liberal Activists 76

    5 The Golden Trough: How Liberal Politicians Used Fannie and Freddie to Rig the Real Estate Market While Lining Their Own Pockets 104

    6 Do-Good Capitalists: Bill Clinton's Seduction of Wall Street and the Birth of the Bailout Culture 120

    7 Minority Meltdown: A Tale of Two Bubbles 152

    8 Robin Hood Comes to the White House: How Barack Obama's Plans to Use Liberal State Capitalism Will Create the Next Big Economic Meltdown 167

    Acknowledgments 185

    Notes 189

    Index 211

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    In Architects of Ruin, New York Times bestselling author and conservative historian Peter Schweizer argues that the economic crisis was caused by liberals who used the power of government to create a subprime mortgage bubble that has ravaged the global economy. Rebutting charges that the financial collapse was caused by conservative deregulatory zeal, Schweizer, the author of Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, shows that it was actually the result of “do-good capitalism.”

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