This is an eye-opening must-read blockbuster of a book showing how banks' money and power
corrupts Washington and our financial system. Compellingly and insightfully connecting the dots
Gerald Epstein details how the bankers' club is also a literal club beating down opposition
and hardworking Americans and concludes with a visionary plan for how the system can be
changed to benefit all Americans.--Dennis M. Kelleher President and CEO Better Markets
Busting the Bankers' Club reminds us that the United States has still not fixed the weaknesses
in its banking system to prevent financial meltdowns. Epstein exposes why the fault lines are
still there and what we can do to prepare for the next disaster when no amount of regulation is
sufficient.--Jennifer Taub author of Big Dirty Money and host of the podcast Booked Up with
Jen Taub An essential guide to all that's gone so deeply wrong in the US financial sector.
'Roaring finance' has destroyed the economy and upended the lives of working people (and too
often distorted the priorities of those who represent them). A 'bankers' club' now threatens
democracy by amplifying the power of Wall Street. Epstein offers a concrete road map for bold
yet achievable strategies to reclaim finance for the social good.--Ilene Grabel author of When
Things Don't Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of
Productive Incoherence Busting the Bankers' Club is a revealing look behind the curtain of the
banking industry's various crises and failures. Instead of focusing on the policies or
practices that lead to such disparate economic outcomes in our economy Epstein hones in on the
network of people from bankers to lobbyists to academic economists who tightly control the
credit and capital structure that rightfully belongs to the people. Epstein's account correctly
identifies an often-overlooked source of unfairness and also points the way forward through a
more democratic and just banking system run for and on behalf of the people. This book is a
must-read for students of finance and activists alike written by a foremost scholar in the
field. The book is timely necessary and enlightening.--Mehrsa Baradaran Professor of Law
University of California Irvine Gerald Epstein's Busting the Bankers' Club is an indispensable
guide to how the financial elite made banking a self-serving and unstable cartel and how to
turn banking back into the servant of the real economy rather than the master.--Robert Kuttner
coeditor of The American Prospect and Professor of Social Policy and Management Brandeis
University
