Wall Street’s Assault on Democracy
Wall Street’s Assault on Democracy: How Financial Markets Exacerbate Inequalities
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031290933 | 341 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 26 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031290933 | 341 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 26 MB
The stock market’s one hundred percent rebound was triggered by a massive injection of capital by the US Federal Reserve and by fiscal stimulus measures that reached $16 trillion globally in only a year. It was the taxpayer who came to the aid of the shareholders. This imbalance between low- and high-income individuals has become unbearable and calls into question the mechanisms that allow such an abuse of financial power to exist. This abuse has allowed populism to flourish, in a world where humanism should prevail.