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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (22 Jan 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 009952368X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099523680
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 30,447 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`a rollicking, acerbic account of the bubble and its collapse'
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`superb timing, trenchant analysis and richly deserved criticism of an Anglo-American political culture' --Irish Times

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read, 8 Feb 2010
By Peter Haydon "Priapus" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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The irony of the 2008 banking crash is that despite it being quite possible to name the individuals responsible (there are only a few thousand of them and we know where they all worked), they are all going to get away with it. Why? Becuase the pulic doesn't actually understand the sheer venality of what was going on.

Sure the man in the street is angry, and 'banker' is a dirty word at the moment, but isn't it odd how quickly and smoothly life has reverted to business as usual. This is because the man in the street cannot get his head around credit default swaps, securitised deriviates and all the other smoke amd mirror tricks that these crooks used to conjour money out of thin air. If the man in the street understood all this then the severed heads of the more egregious bankers' would be adorning the southern end of London Bridge.

The Gods That Failed is a guide to greed and forsensically disects the methods by which you - yes you - were ripped off by these people. If you are not feeling angry towards the bankers, you will after reading it, and if you are already feeling angry, it will make you realise that you are nowehere near angry enough.

Read and dissemninate.
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