This item makers and takers the rise of finance and the fall of american business by rana foroohar hardcover 1545 only 4 left in stock order soon ships from and sold by gama1521. Buy makers and takers the rise of finance and the fall of american business by foroohar rana isbn 9780553447231 from amazons book store everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the great depression the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis. Makers and takers is that rare work of journalism that both appears at a fortuitous moment in history and captures the essence of that moments core narrative foroohar chronicles the rise of the financial industry and its destructive impact on the global economy and she has the credibility and the chops to pull it off over the past 15 years shes covered the financial industry for newsweek and time shes been the global economic analyst for cnn for the past three years as well