The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet
By Ann Pettifor
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By Ann Pettifor
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How everything from the price of food to energy and housing costs is fixed by remote, unregulated financial markets, and what can be done about it
The global market in money – housed in the offshore ‘shadow’ banking system – holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation’s taxman. Asset managers, private equity firms, and pension and sovereign wealth funds scoop up the world’s savings for investment and manage them as they choose, unaccountable to politic...
The global market in money – housed in the offshore ‘shadow’ banking system – holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation’s taxman. Asset managers, private equity firms, and pension and sovereign wealth funds scoop up the world’s savings for investment and manage them as they choose, unaccountable to politic...






















