"A giddy romp through the old-boy networks and unending power plays of Wall Street, Corporate America, and Capitol Hill" from the author of Collusion (Barron's). Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Economist, Barron's, Library Journal, and The Progressive Critical, independent voices are seldom found within the citadels of international finance. That's what makes Nomi Prins unique. During fifteen years as an executive at skyscraping banks like Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers, Prins never lost her ability to see the broader picture. She walked away from the game in 2002 out of disgust with the burgeoning corporate corruption, just as its magnitude was becoming clear to the public. In this acclaimed exposé, Prins provides fascinating firsthand details of day-to-day life in the financial leviathans, with all its rich absurdities. She demonstrates how the much-publicized fraud of recent years resulted from deregulation that trashed the rules of responsible corporate behavior, and not simply the unbridled greed of a select few. While the stock market roared on the back of phony balance sheets, executives made out like bandits and Congress looked the other way. Worse yet, as the new foreword to the paperback edition makes clear, everything remains in place for a repeat performance. "The most revealing description yet of what it is like to work for the mighty Goldman Sachs." ―The Economist "A great crime story in which the culprits get away with larceny on an epic scale." —William Greider, New York Times–bestselling author "Exceedingly well-documented [and] fascinating." ―Library Journal