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"A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." -The New York Times
"A masterly account of the disproportionate power that the financial sector exercises in the economy and the disastrous consequences this has for society as a whole." - Forbes.com
"A credible explanation for the rise of economic populism in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Anyone seeking to truly understand the resonance of the anti–Wall Street vitriol of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump could do worse than to start here. -Fortune.com
“Foroohar demystifies the decline in America’s economic prominence, showing that the competitive threats came not from the outside—migration or China—but from within our borders. She explains how finance has permeated every aspect of our economic and political life, and how those who caused the financial crisis wound up benefiting from it.”
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics and former head of the Council of Economic Advisors
“A fast-paced, exciting, and well-researched tale that brings alive the shady dealings that have been part of the recent rise of finance (the takers). Wall Street has prospered beyond measure by consuming far too much of the value created by the real economy (the makers). Readers will be shocked by the shenanigans that are revealed, and then eager to help fix what has been so badly broken. It’s up to us—all of us.”
—John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO, Vanguard
“In this well-written, refreshing, and provocative book, Rana Foroohar analyzes how Wall Street went from an enabler of prosperity to a headwind to growth and a contributor to inequality. This engaging analysis identifies five key policy areas that will rightly be the subject of debate and, hopefully, some political action. This is a must-read for those looking to better understand how, why, and when financial engineering went too far, and what to do about it.
—Mohamed A. El-Erian, chief economic adviser, Allianz; former CEO, PIMCO
“From the leading edge of business journalism, Rana Foroohar has produced a powerful book about how financial manipulation has spread beyond the financial sector itself to colonize the American economy, to the enormous detriment of real, productive activities. By mapping the rise of financialization and its effects, Foroohar sheds light on almost everything we now see, from the inequality debate to presidential politics to America’s global competitiveness. A phenomenal achievement.”
—Charles Ferguson, producer, Inside Job
“As the next US election looms, one of the most important questions that voters will need to ask is what is wrong with the American economy—and what can be done to fix it. Foroohar’s book is required reading for this. With deft storytelling and clear analysis, she explains how America’s economy has become stealthily “financialized”—and why this process has been so debilitating for American growth, not to mention the lives of ordinary people. The 2008 financial crisis was one sign of this; however, the issues have not ended there. Foroohar not only argues that it is crucial that America tackle these woes but offers commonsense solutions for doing so. Politicians—and voters—should take note.”
—Gillian Tett, US managing editor, Financial Times, author of The Silo Effect
“There is no bigger question in public policy than whether the emergence of an ever-larger financial sector has made for a smaller and less equal society. Makers and Takers provides an intellectually compelling, and beautifully written, answer to that question, one which policy makers cannot and should not duck.”
—Andy Haldane, chief economist and executive director of monetary analysis and statistics at the Bank of England
“Rana Foroohar offers a sometimes maddening, thoroughly fascinating look at the financial sector’s outsized role in the US economy and what it means for America’s future. This is a critical story that speaks directly to the ways in which banks are stripping businesses of their potential—and to the income inequality that increasingly defines our times.”
- Ian Bremmer, Founder and Head of the Eurasia Group
“Foroohar is one of the rare journalists with the insider knowledge and contacts, as well as the deft writing touch, to criticize the “financialization” of the US economy in a way that will sound credible to Wall Street, and readable on Main Street. In this fast-paced book she makes a compelling case for how businesses have come to focus more on engineering their finances than engineering good products, and the negative effect this has on US growth and productivity.
– Ruchir Sharma, Chief Macroeconomist and Head of Emerging Markets, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Rana Foroohar was recently named global business columnist and Associate Editor for the Financial Times. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst.
Prior to joining the FT and CNN, Foroohar was for six years the assistant managing editor in charge of business and economics at TIME, as well as the magazine’s economic columnist. She also spent 13 years at Newsweek, as an economic and foreign affairs editor and a foreign correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. During that time, she was awarded the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting. She has also received awards and fellowships from institutions such as the Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs and the East West Center. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Foroohar graduated in 1992 from Barnard College, Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the writer John Sedgwick, and her two children, Darya and Alex.
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This is an important read for businessmen, investors and those interested in knowing the subject that deal with the economy. It is not an easy read or an easy subject, but if you are concerned about the quality of life it is a beginning to get to know the issues. The author presents a large landscape of issues. The challenge for the reader is to distinguish what is fact and what is opinion. I have been interested and sometimes involved in economic development and consider myself well read on the subject for over 40 years. In addition, I have invested in companies, real estate and have been a builder and subcontractor. I neither have the space or time to argue the importance during the most recent real estate bust or others that took place during my life time. Anyone who has been involved knows that some of the causes can be people borrowing more they can afford, builders leveraging the purchase of property at near peak prices and not sufficient reserves to hold out when prices drop to a time when values rise or the disintegration of a region because of economic change and the destruction of the family unit. Yes, large and small investors, who have reserves come forward to save much of this housing with an eye toward making a good profit as it relates to the risk. Much of this property does become rental, but not everybody should own property unless they understand the risk. The same for owning stocks. As you read into the second half of the book you will learn who the authors mentors are. Some of them can be found in side on the back cover. You must determine for yourself which of her view are that of a socialist, are left of center and how far. The same for some of her recommendations for the cure. However, I must admit that a fair balance among those that lead our country to allow the opportunity of each of us to obtain a reasonable standard of life based on hard work is failing. We need to bake more of the bigger and better pies as many people are doing, rather than divide up what we have.
If we are to have a conversation about the best way to move forward read the book so you'll understand a point of view. We have done much right as a people and some poor political decisions have sustained some damage, but compared to everywhere else in the world we're where an awfully lot of people want to be. Put the responsibility on both sides of the aisle in Washington. The wrong decision to lowering borrowing requirements and the wrong regulations/over regulations. DON'T READ THE SHORT VERSION IF YOUR SERIOUS ABOUT THE SUBJECT. UDERSTAND THE AUTHORS POSITION IN DEPTH.
My God, what a book! Want to know what's up with America? Why everybody seems so angry nowadays? It has nothing to do with Donald Trump, but with a frightening, deep, gradual, hard-to-spot shift in the economy from an emphasis on actually making stuff to making money off the people who make stuff, so they make less of it, at lower wages and higher rates of unemployment, shifting the US from a shining city on a hill to something closer to a third world country, with the super-rich in their gated communities or out cruising in their mega-yachts with their bought senators--and everybody else struggling to get by. Yes, this is a lot, but just read this book and you'll see I am not exaggerating. Remember the Great Recession? The whole deal is a terrible drain on national resources and on the national spirit, to say the least. It's called financialization, remember that term! It's how investment houses like Goldman Sachs have gained a strangle-hold on the American economy, putting the whole deal in service to them, rather than the other way around. Forhoohar's book is much more thoughtful, detailed, wide-ranging, historical and sophisticated than I can possibly capture here. And she lays out how we can make things right again. The simple fact is, forget all the political coverage, people, and read this if you want to know what's really going on.
I liked it. It's well and engagingly written, and doesn't require a PhD in economics (or whatever) to understand. I've always been personally quite conservative, but socially quite liberal, so a lot of what is written in this book rings true with me.
Foroohar covers a lot of ground, most of which un-brain dead, open-minded, curious people have probably heard at one time or another on the air, online, or in print (e.g., her Time Magazine articles). But she employs good, real-world examples and details (that you don't get in typical media sound bites). They expanded my understanding of the issues, but got a little redundant. My experience is that a lot of this type of books chop, hash and mince the points over and over and over again, which is too bad.
With less of redundancy, Foroohar could have more examples in greater depth (and still filled out the pages into a real book length). Or she could have provided more detail about her prescription for the future. I think the last chapter on the future is really superficial.
Thus only 3-stars. I still recommend that everybody read it, because it does contain good information, is easy to read and engaging. But just don't get too excited, because the content just isn't there to fulfill the title's promise.
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