When the housing market collapsed in 2008, millions of Americans suffered financial loss-- while tycoons pounced to heartlessly seize thousands of homes, often using taxpayer money and the Obama administration's promise to cover their losses. Glantz recounts the transformation of straightforward lending into a morass of slivered and combined mortgage "products" that could be bought and sold, accompanied by a shift in priorities and a loosening of regulations and laws that made it good business to lend money to those who wouldn't be able to repay. Among the men who laughed their way to the bank: Trump cabinet members Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, Trump pal and confidant Tom Barrack, and billionaire Republican cash cow Steve Schwarzman. -- adapted from jacket.

Part I : Financial freedom -- Part II : Foreclosure kings -- Part III : The greatest thing I've ever done -- Part IV : The new redlining -- Part V : The big flip -- Part VI : Enter the Donald -- Part VII : President Trump