The Looting of America

How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About It

by Les Leopold

On YouTube: Taxpayer Money Going to Wall Street Bonuses

With 30 million people either out of work or forced into part-time work, Wall Street awarded itself $150 billion in bonuses—that's the equivalent of $500 from every man, woman, and child in the United States. Author Les Leopold, executive director of the Labor Institute and Public Health Institute and author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About It explains in this segment from Russia Today.