The Introduction to the Evil Axis of Finance

This short "teaser" contains the Introduction to Richard Westra's longer work, The Evil Axis of Finance, along with the Table of Contents for same. It is sufficiently intensive and comprehensive to stand alone, yet whet the appetite of readers for the main course, the book itself. The Evil Axis of Finance responds to the following issues, largely left untouched by commentators and scholars alike: why, despite a raft of potential international investment outlets, is a major share of global wealth and savings still impelled toward a US Wall Streetcentered casino? Why has an increasingly gaping chasm crystallized between bloating global financial activities and the “real” world economy of production and trade? How is it that wealthy governments’ injection of trillions of dollars into stumbling financial sectors across the globe is failing to create decent new jobs? This book connects the dots linking the 2008 meltdown—and over a decade of dress rehearsals for it—to a rigged global financial game that is unraveling the very foundations of modernity.