Why, despite the existence of raft of potential international investment outlets, is a major share of global wealth and savings impelled toward a United States (US) Wall Street centered casino? Why has an increasingly gapping chasm crystallized between ever bloating global financial activities and the “real” world economy of production and trade? How is it that wealthy governments’ injecting trillions of dollars into stumbling financial sectors across the globe is failing to create new decent jobs? The present volume clearly answers these questions and more.

“This is the best researched and hardest hitting book yet written on what Westra so aptly refers to as ‘rotating meltdowns’ caused by High Finance’s irresponsible expansion of and gambling with debt.” ROBERT ALBRITTON, Prof. Emeritus, York University, Canada