Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock

Description: Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer When this book exploded onto the political scene in November 2011, it shocked the nation and shook Washington to its core. It shone a necessary spotlight on legal loopholes that allowed members of Congress to get rich off insider information. Now with a new Afterword. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description THE BOOK WASHINGTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO READ How is it that politicians often enter office with relatively modest assets, but then, as investors, regularly beat the stock market and sometimes beat the most rapacious hedge funds? How did some members of Congress know to dump their stock holdings just in time to escape the effects of the 2008 financial meltdown? And how is it that billionaires and hedge fund managers often make well-timed investment decisions that anticipate events in Washington? In this powerfully argued book, Peter Schweizer blows the lid off Washingtons epidemic of "honest graft." He exposes a secret world where members of Congress insert earmarks into bills to improve their own real-estate holdings, and campaign contributors receive billions in federal grants. Nobody goes to jail. Throw Them All Out casts light into the darkest corners of the political system -- and offers ways to clean house. "Throw Them All Out is filled with stories of petty theft and so-called honest graft . . . Unsparingly bipartisan in [its] criticism of Washington . . . Mr. Schweizer has performed a valuable service to his country." -- Washington Times Back Cover THE BOOK WASHINGTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO READ How is it that politicians often enter office with relatively modest assets, but then, as investors, regularly beat the stock market and sometimes beat the most rapacious hedge funds? How did some members of Congress know to dump their stock holdings just in time to escape the effects of the 2008 financial meltdown? And how is it that billionaires and hedge fund managers often make well-timed investment decisions that anticipate events in Washington? In this powerfully argued book, Peter Schweizer blows the lid off Washingtons epidemic of "honest graft." He exposes a secret world where members of Congress insert earmarks into bills to improve their own real-estate holdings, and campaign contributors receive billions in federal grants. Nobody goes to jail. Throw Them All Out casts light into the darkest corners of the political system -- and offers ways to clean house. " Throw Them All Out is filled with stories of petty theft and so-called honest graft . . . Unsparingly bipartisan in [its] criticism of Washington . . . Mr. Schweizer has performed a valuable service to his country." -- Washington Times PETER SCHWEIZER is the William J. Casey Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also president of the Government Accountability Institute, an organization he launched to research and investigate crony capitalism. His books have been translated into eleven languages and include Do As I Say (Not As I Do) , Reagans War , and Architects of Ruin . He lives in Florida with his wife and children. Author Biography PETER SCHWEIZER is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and he is the founder and director of the Government Accountability Institute. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek/Daily Beast, and elsewhere. His books include Throw Them All Out, which exposed congressional insider stock trading and led to the passage of the STOCK Act. Excerpt from Book Introduction The Government Rich The mere proposal to set the politician to watch the capitalist has been disturbed by the rather disconcerting discovery that they are both the same man. We are past the point where being a capitalist is the only way of becoming a politician, and we are dangerously near the point where being a politician is much the quickest way of becoming a capitalist. Description for Bookstore HMH hardcover, 2011, Previous ISBN: 978-0-547-57314-4 Details ISBN0547970161 Author Peter Schweizer Short Title THROW THEM ALL OUT Language English ISBN-10 0547970161 ISBN-13 9780547970165 Media Book Format Paperback Residence Tallahassee, FL, US Birth 1964 Year 2012 Imprint Houghton Mifflin Place of Publication Boston Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-08-07 NZ Release Date 2012-08-07 UK Release Date 2012-08-07 Pages 240 Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc DEWEY 364.13230973 Audience General Subtitle How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest o Illustrations Illustrations; Figures Imprint US Harper Paperbacks Publisher US HarperCollins Publication Date 2012-08-01 US Release Date 2012-08-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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