The Bankers - Shane Ross

The Bankers: How the Banks brought Ireland to its Knees - Shane Ross
2009, paperback

Two years ago, the Irish economy was still booming; now, it faces an unprecedented crisis. There is, of course, an international context for these developments, but the Irish story - a story of extraordinary collusion between banks, regulators and the government - is perhaps unique in its tawdriness.

This is the story Shane Ross - journalist, independent Senator, and longtime champion of citizens against misbehaving corporations - tells in The Bankers, going behind the scenes and the headlines to explain what happened, how it happened, and who made it happen. They're all here: Sean FitzPatrick and the other bank bosses; the property developers, who dominated the banks lending to a ruinous degree; and the politicians, who inflated the property bubble and have allowed the banks to dictate the terms of their bail-out. Shane Ross knows the stories of these people and what they got up to better than anyone, and in The Bankers he makes sense of a scandal that will haunt Ireland for years to come.

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