TY - BOOK AU - Schweizer,Peter TI - Architects of ruin: how big government liberals wrecked the global economy--and how they'll do it again if no one stops them SN - 9780061953347 AV - JC 574.2 S413a 2009 U1 - 320.51/30973 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Harper KW - Democratic Party (U.S.) KW - Liberalism KW - United States KW - Fiscal policy KW - Economic policy KW - 2001-2009 KW - 1993-2001 KW - Politics and government KW - 1989- N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-210) and index; The Robin Hood agenda : how a gang of radical activists and liberal politicians set the stage for the biggest bank heist in history -- $4 trillion shakedown : the left's activist jihad against American banks -- The Clinton crusade : how Democrats made credit a civil right -- Cover your Fannie : how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by liberal activists -- The golden trough : how liberal politicians used Fannie and Freddie to rig the real estate market while lining their own pockets -- Do-good capitalists : Bill Clinton's seduction of Wall Street and the birth of the bailout culture -- Minority meltdown : a tale of two bubbles -- Robin Hood comes to the White House : how Barack Obama's plans to use liberal state capitalism will create the next big economic meltdown N2 - Conservative historian Peter Schweizer argues that the economic crisis was caused by liberals who used the power of government to create a subprime mortgage bubble that has ravaged the global economy. Rebutting charges that the financial collapse was caused by conservative deregulatory zeal, shows that it was actually the result of "do-good capitalism."--From publisher description ER -