Table of Contents Executive Summary Key Points Introduction What ‘financialization’ is, and isn’t Class warfare by any other name Resource allocation and productivity In defense of profits The usual bogeymen Private Equity Hedge Funds High-Frequency Trading Banks Mergers & Acquisitions Dividends Stock buybacks Passive ownership/indexing Cures that are worse than the disease Monetary and fiscal policy getting a

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