The Moneychangers Author:Arthur Hailey Viewed from the outside, First Mercantile American Bank - among America's top twenty - seems a cathedral of respectability, as sound and solid as Fort Knox. It's the kind of bank where the public deposits money confidently. Yet within FMA are corruption, double dealing, incompetence. — A fascinating glimpse into the world of money. . . Credit car... more »ds-the big-business pressures behind them, and their perils for the unwary; why bank money-traders "wear out" fast; "insider" financial newsletters - how they help the rich get richer; why U.S. currency is the easiest to counterfeit; how interlocking directorships cheat the public; some unpalatable truths about inflation; how prestigious institutions, apparently sound, can crash in ruins, suddenly . . . and more, much more.« less