Planet ponzi pdf free download

How politicians and bankers "stole your future. What happens next. How you can survive.

Mitch Feierstein

[TAM PRESS
LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY AUCKLAND JOHANNESBURG

Contents
Acknowledgments 1 The scheme . xi 1

Part One: Washington

2 3 4 5 6 7 The price of liberty Future-money in happyrland A hole as big as the world How to win friends and influence people The $50,000,000,000 egg After Beachy Head,--" 21 29 50 64 76 83

Part Two: Wall Street

8 9 10 A statistical anomaly A house for Joe Schmoe How to hide a neutron bomb in ten easy steps Collecting nickels in front of steamrollers I'm short your house A brief flash of reality Planet Ponzi comes to London 91 101 114 149 171 179 190

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Part Three: The Wider World

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 The rise and rise of Planet Ponzi Giants unicycling on clifftops The aureus and the as Choosing second A van for Fukushima The man who ate a supermarket Doing a Caporetto Crunching the numbers 197 213 230 239 249 258 268 275

Part Four: Solutions

23 24 25 26 The end of days What is to be done? Gold, wheat, and shotgun shells Mr Smith goes to Planet Ponzi 299 303 315 327 333 343 361

Afterword Notes " Index