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What Every American Needs to Know About the War on Free Enterprise--and Freedom Itself America be warned. A new wave of financial reformers has infiltrated our public institutions at both the state and national levels. A growing army of self-proclaimed activists, philanthropists, and politicians has infiltrated not only the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the FDIC, the Treasury, and other regulatory agencies. This explosive new book from New York Times bestselling author Jay W. Richards reveals the shocking truth about The latest financial regulationswhat every consumer and businessperson needs to know The Dodd-Frank Reform Acthow it targets the wrong people and problems Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureauwhat theyre really up to Consumer credit and debtwhy we need to stop blaming the banks The war against free enterprisewhat you can do to fight back This startling account walks you through Americas government and financial industry from the inside outexposing the surprising history, the colorful characters, and the earthshaking events that got us where we are today.
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Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., O.P., is an Assistant Research Professor in the Busch School of Business and Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and Executive Editor of The Stream.Richards is author or editor of a dozen books including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012) . He is also the author of Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; co-author of The Privileged Planet with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez; and co-author with Jonathan Witt of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom that J.R.R. Tolkien Got and the West Forgot. His newest book is The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in the Age of Smart Machines. His forthcoming book (January 2020) , is Eat, Fast, Feast.Richards' articles and essays have been published in The Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Washington Post, Forbes, Fox News, National Review Online, The Hill, Investor's Business Daily, Washington Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, The Federalist, The American Spectator, The Daily Caller, The Imaginative Conservative and many other publications. His topics range from culture, economics, and public policy to natural science, technology, and the environment. He is also creator and executive producer of several documentaries, including three that have appeared widely on PBS--The Call of the Entrepreneur, The Birth of Freedom, and The Privileged Planet.Richards' work has been covered in The New York Times (front page news, science news, and editorial) , The Washington Post (news and editorial) , The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Nature, Science, Astronomy, Physics Today, Reuters, The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Enterprise, Congressional Quarterly Researcher, World, National Catholic Register, Catholic World Report, and American Spectator. An experienced public speaker, Richards has appeared on several hundred radio and television programs, including Larry King Live (CNN) , CBS Evening News, BBC, Huckabee, Dayside, Fox and Friends, Studio B with Shepard Smith (Fox News) , Bloomberg TV, Glenn Beck TV, Yahoo Finance, Life Today, PBS, CBN, and TBN, The Michael Medved Show, The Mitch Albom Show, The Thom Hartmann Program, The Dennis Prager Show, Linda Chavez, The Mark Davis Show, The Bible Answer Man, Janet Parshall's America, Al Kresta, Teresa Tomeo, Drew Mariani, Cardinal Dolan, and many others. He has lectured at conferences as diverse as the Western Economic Association, South by Southwest, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the Evangelical Theological Society; on dozens of college and university campuses around the world; at think tanks, including the Cato Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, Acton Institute, the Foundation for Economic Education, the New America Foundation and the Heritage Foundation; at numerous pu
