Thieves of Bay Street : how banks, brokerages and the wealthy steal billions from Canadians

Summary: Thieves of Bay Street investigates Canada's biggest financial scandals of recent years. Readers will learn what banks do with investors' money and what happens when they lose it. They will meet the bogus investment gurus, the brokers who lose money with both reckless abandon and impunity, the bankers who squander money in toxic investments, the lawyers who protect them and the regulators who do nothing to keep them from doing it again. And most importantly, they'll meet the victims who are demanding that our vaunted banking sector finally come clean on its dirtiest secret.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307359643 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0307359638 (hc.)
ISBN: 9780307359636 (hc.)
Physical Description: 313 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-298) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Making out like bandits -- Rise of Bay Street, death of Main Street -- Pillaging Stelco -- Plundering Nortel -- How to corrupt a stock market -- Pauperism by a thousand cults -- Brokers gone wild : a rogues' gallery -- Bankers behaving badly -- Subprime horror : the Canadian connection -- Tales from the crypt : the rise of shadow banking -- The ghost thief -- Ponzi schemata -- No help in sight -- The enablers -- Kissing cousins : the regulators -- Not to be trusted.