Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal

DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth teller
in the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmaker
with the award-winning independent company Globalvision. A graduate of
Cornell and the London School of Economics, Schechter was a Nieman Fellow
at Harvard and a multiple Emmy Award winner at ABC News, where he was
among the first to cover the S&L crisis.

In 2007, his film IN DEBT WE TRUST wasthe first to expose Wall Street's connection to subprime loans, predicting the economic crisis that this book investigates. Schechter is a blogger, editor of Mediachannel.org, and author of nine books. He has reported from 53 countries, and lives in Gotham. He owns no derivatives or tranches.