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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 — 777 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 4.32 avg rating — 425 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) 3.91 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2020 — 9 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) 3.38 avg rating — 8 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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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank

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This was a scrap of history that escaped me; the moment of American foray into imperialism, reached so easily and without much second-guessing (outside of a sharp Mark Twain, years after the nation was already committed). I really enjoyed the depth h ...more
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If you want to know why you feel that America is mired in a pit of corruption, read this book.
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We just did a podcast on this. I really enjoyed the attempt to build an intellectual framework for the anti-monopoly movement.
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I was reminded of several books about the ivory tower, though this stood out, with its depictions that seemed eerily of the present day though it was written 20 years ago, touching on ideology, race, sex, and the self-flattery of the academy.
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Loved this partially but not solely for reasons of nostalgia. Sometimes the author takes flights of fancy fitting various artists into his "crypto-religious" narrative by cherry-picking a lyric or a stray line; he could have shaved 50 pages off this ...more
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