In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they were all foreclosure victims, and while struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act: closely reading their mortgage documents, discovering the deceit behind them, and building a movement to expose it. Fiscal Times columnist David Dayen recounts how these ordinary Floridians challenged the most powerful institutions in America armed only with the truth—and for a brief moment they brought the corrupt financial industry to its knees.

Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

Business & Money

Dayen, David

Real Estate

The New Press

NOW IN PAPERBACK The "gripping" (New York Times) and "Hitchcockian"(Publishers Weekly) story of how a nurse, a car dealership worker, and a forensic expert took on the nation’s largest banks A Kirkus Reviews and The Week best book of the year, David Dayen’s Chain of Title is a riveting work that recalls A Civil Action, Erin Brockovich, and Flash Boys, recounting how three ordinary Floridians—a car dealership worker, a cancer nurse, and an insurance fraud specialist—helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history, challenged the most powerful institutions in America, and—for a brief moment—brought the corrupt financial industry to its knees. Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they were all foreclosure victims, and while struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act: closely reading their mortgage documents, discovering the deceit behind them, and building a movement to expose it. Harnessing the power of the Internet, they revealed how the financial crisis and subsequent recession were fundamentally based upon a series of frauds that kicked millions out of their homes because of false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. As Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi noted: "Chain of Title is a sweeping work of investigative journalism that traces the arc of a criminally underreported story in America, the collapse of the rule of law in the home mortgage industry."

Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud

Biography & History

From the cars we drive to what toothpaste we use, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives “If you’re looking for a book . . . that will get your heart pumping and your blood boiling and that will remind you why we’re in these fights—add this one to your list.” —Senator Elizabeth Warren on David Dayen’s Chain of Title Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations. Today, practically everything we buy, everywhere we shop, and every service we secure comes from a heavily concentrated market. This is a world where four major banks control most of our money, four airlines shuttle most of us around the country, and four major cell phone providers connect most of our communications. If you are sick you can go to one of three main pharmacies to fill your prescription, and if you end up in a hospital almost every accessory to heal you comes from one of a handful of large medical suppliers. Dayen, the editor of the American Prospect and author of the acclaimed Chain of Title, provides a riveting account of what it means to live in this new age of monopoly and how we might resist this corporate hegemony. Through vignettes and vivid case studies Dayen shows how these monopolies have transformed us, inverted us, and truly changed our lives, at the same time providing readers with the raw material to make monopoly a consequential issue in American life and revive a long-dormant antitrust movement.

Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power

Economics

Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story tells the true story of how Steve Mnuchin has spent a career profiting from the pain and suffering of ordinary Americans. Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin story is authored by two extraordinary journalists, Rebecca Burns and David Dayen. From Mnuchin's beginnings at Goldman to his time as a Hollywood Producer, and from his coronation as America's "Foreclosure King" to his narrow confirmation to become Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Burns and Dayen show how Mnuchin has made a career - and a fortune - by bilking average American families.

Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story

Politics & Social Sciences

Burns, Rebecca

Politics & Government

Strong Arm Press

Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story tells the true story of how Donald Trump's treasury secretary has spent a career profiting from the pain and suffering of ordinary Americans.Fat Cat is authored by two extraordinary journalists, Rebecca Burns and David Dayen. From Mnuchin’s beginnings at Goldman to his time as a Hollywood Producer, and from his coronation as America’s “Foreclosure King” to his narrow confirmation to Trump’s cabinet, Burns and Dayen show how Mnuchin has made a career – and a fortune – by bilking average American families.

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Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud

Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power

Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story

Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story