The New Robber Barons: How Bankers Created an International Oligarchy

With Trillions On the Table, Nobody Plays Fair, and Everyone Plays For Keeps

The New Robber Barons, continues financial expert Janet Tavakoli's chronicle of the global financial crisis captured in her web-based articles from the September 2008 meltdown through February 2012, picking up where her mainstream print book, Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street (Wiley, 2009), ended. She exposes the criminogenic environment that enabled international oligarchs to solidify power.

Tavakoli's conclusions were eventually confirmed by Congressional investigations.

This print edition is for readers who do not wish to sift through web content, and who do not wish to read in eBook format, both of which are alternative options.

The original commentaries are unrevised so that readers experience the real-time thought process. Some background was repeated in commentaries so that they could read as stand alone articles as events unfolded.