What they do with your money : how the financial system fails us, and how to fix it /

What they do with your money : how the financial system fails us, and how to fix it /

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Author / Creator:Davis, Stephen, author.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) : illusttration.
Language:English
Subject:
Financial institutions -- United States.
Financial institutions.
United States.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11909752
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Other authors / contributors:Lukomnik, Jon, author.
Pitt-Watson, David, author.
ISBN:9780300223811
0300223811
9780300194418
0300194412
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-268) and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 12, 2016).
Summary:Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren't told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance industry does a good job, but as this book shows, it too often fails us. Financial institutions regularly place their business interests first, charging for advice that does nothing to improve performance, employing short-term buying strategies that are corrosive to building long-term value, and sometimes even concealing both their practices and their investment strategies from investors. In their previous prizewinning book, The New Capitalists, the authors demonstrated how ordinary people are working together to demand accountability from even the most powerful corporations. Here they explain how a tyranny of errant expertise, naive regulation, and a misreading of economics combine to impose a huge stealth tax on our savings and our economies. More important, the trio lay out an agenda for curtailing the misalignments that allow the financial industry to profit at our expense. With our financial future at stake, this is a book that analysts, economists, policy makers, and anyone with a retirement nest egg can't afford to ignore.
Other form:Original 9780300194418 0300194412

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