Wall Street's White House: How Gary Cohn Wrecked The Global Economy And Parlayed It Into A White House Job - Paperback

by Michael Hudson (Author), Gary Rivlin (Author)

When the media talk about Donald Trump's economic adviser Gary Cohn, he's known as the "liberal in the White House," one of those adults in the room the nation ought to be grateful for. But before crafting that thank-you note to Mr. Cohn, make sure to read the real history, by Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporters Gary Rivlin and Michael Hudson, of his central role in both creating the conditions for the great financial collapse of 2008 and managing to score an eye-popping profit from it -- along the way turning bailout money into exploding bonus payments. When Wall Street critics lament that the bankers at the center of the fraud never faced justice, they're talking about people like Gary Cohn. Now he's setting national economic policy.

Author Biography

Gary Rivlin is a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. A former New York Times reporter, he is the author of six books, including, most recently, "Katrina: After the Flood." He shared a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Panama Papers. Michael Hudson is a Brooklyn-based reporter and editor who began investigating misconduct in the subprime mortgage industry more than 15 years before the 2008 financial crash. He is the author of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America -- and Spawned a Global Crisis (Times Books, 2010). He shared a 2017 Pulitzer Prize for his work for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the Panama Papers investigation. Hudson and Rivlin were part of a groundbreaking team of journalists who shared a 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for the Panama Papers investigation.