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David Dayen is a journalist who writes about economics and finance. He is the author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award. He is a contributing writer to Salon.com and The Intercept, and a weekly columnist for The Fiscal Times and The New Republic. He also writes for The American Prospect, Vice, The Huffington Post, In These Times, Naked Capitalism, and more. He has been a guest on MSNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Current TV, Russia Today, NPR, Pacifica Radio and Air America Radio. He lives in Los Angeles, where prior to writing about politics he had a 15-year career as a television producer and editor.
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	Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud 4.22 avg rating — 794 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power 4.30 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style by Kate Aronoff (Editor), Peter Dreier (Editor), Michael Kazin (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacobin Italia n°3. Il nemico capitale della democrazia by Salvatore Cannavò (Editor), Luca Addante (Contributor), Marco Bertorello (Contributor) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story by Rebecca Burns, David Dayen (Goodreads Author) 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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This won't let me rate it because it's pre-publication but I'll give it a 4 out of 5. The phenomenon the book describes is real: over-educated people in traditionally exploited jobs, living in an economy that doesn't work for them, and radicalized by ...more
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At one level, this is a book that counts up the usage of the words "creativity" and "innovation" in public press releases over the past 50 years. At another, it defines something real: the persistent demand that the only thing that matters to the U.S ...more
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Comprehensive study of the man whose legacy spans decades of political louts. In it we learn that Cohn was a terrible lawyer technically and more of a courtroom bully, while also making most of his fortune as a crooked businessman. Bird doesn't pull ...more
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I could have been spared the coming-of-age story, which seemed like a self-justification that wasn't needed. The work proved itself; the sensitivity about being a kid or the progeny of famous journalists or "not into journalism" (which was impossible ...more
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Read this for work purposes but it was 750 freakin' pages so I did want to mark it! An authoritative biography of one of our most interesting and accomplished Americans. ...more
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