13 Bankers

In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes.

Updated, with new analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.

“An enticing vision of a Wall Street confined… a safer, saner system that has learned from its mistakes.”-The Wall Street Journal

“A provocative prescription for avoiding a repeat of the panic of 2008 that brought the world to the brink of a second Depression.”-San Francisco Chronicle

“Two of the sharpest critics of the financial establishment. . . . This book puts America’s banking system on trial.”-Financial Times

“13 Bankers holds an explosive idea: Wall Street has hijacked our government. And without a total overhaul, taxpayers will endlessly foot the bill for its sins.”-Fortune

“A well-documented appeal to embrace once again Thomas Jefferson’s skepticism of concentrated banking power.”-The New York Times

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