The Dendreon Effect: How Felons, Con-Men and Wall Street Insiders Manipulate High-Tech Stocks

Wall Street has become a villain again. In Hollywood films.To a few muck-raking journalists. For angry protesters. But the problems in the American financial system run much deeper thanbig banks. Or greedy individuals. The corruption is institutional.Mark Mitchell knows how this vast corruption has come about. Heknows that the truth is easy to see...if people are willing to look.In this book, Mitchell gives readers an example of how key elementsof the U.S. financial system have been "captured" and debased byself-interested parties. He tells the story in vivid detail, focusing onone small pharmaceutical company. And the market manipulatorswho tried to bring it down.Why is this story so important? Here's Mitchell's "If you're a journalist at a major publication, you're afraid to considerthe possibility that the United States is beginning to look, in somerespects, like a Third World country. It's impossible for you to conceive that parts of the American government...have beencorrupted. ...You don't want to hear that some of the most powerfulhedge funds in the nation have ties to the Mafia."