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A capitalist's lament, how Wall Street is fleecing you and ruining America, Leland Faust

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Leland Faust

how Wall Street is fleecing you and ruining America

Leland Faust unmasks Wall Streets unsavory tactics in powerful detail by giving readers a high-level view of how the financial services industry misleads them, overcharges them, and exposes them to needless risk. He documents the financial industrys alluring come-ons, airbrushed risks, high-stakes gambling, half-truths, misleading statements, outlandish predictions, tricks to overcharge customers, bad deals, and outright fraud by the most prominent and renowned of Wall Streets players. A Capitalists Lament is about what happens when financial firms and their employees forget whose interest they are supposed to protect. It shows how making foolish or wrong predictions is of no consequence to those who make them and how Wall Street luminaries with poor track records still garner celebrity status. Most of all, it spotlights how Wall Street manipulates the system and furthers its own interests at its customers expense and puts us all at great risk. Here is what you need to know to protect yourself from business as usual and get aheadinstead of getting taken