{"product_id":"the-great-extraction-licensed-to-loot-top-20-who-made-off-with-your-tax-dollars-9798199186643","title":"The Great Extraction: Licensed to Loot: Top 20 who made off with your Tax Dollars","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Geelon Dusk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Commerce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE GREAT EXTRACTION: LICENSED TO LOOT\u003cbr\u003eTop 20 Who Made Off With Your Tax Dollars\u003cbr\u003eBy Geelon Dusk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the greatest transfer of wealth in modern history didn't happen through war, invasion, or revolution?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if it happened through contracts, privatizations, bailouts, lobbying, financial engineering, regulatory capture, and systems so complex that ordinary citizens never saw it happening?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, governments promised prosperity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorporations promised efficiency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarkets promised competition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet across the world, public wealth increasingly flowed into private hands while citizens paid the bill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Great Extraction: Licensed to Loot\u003c\/i\u003e, Geelon Dusk takes readers on a gripping journey through twenty of the most controversial corporations and institutions of the modern era. From defense contractors and Wall Street banks to infrastructure giants, commodity traders, privatized utilities, and global financial powerhouses, Dusk exposes the mechanisms through which vast fortunes were allegedly built at the intersection of state power and corporate influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside these pages you'll discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- How wars became business opportunities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- How privatization transformed public assets into private empires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- How banks manipulated systems ordinary citizens never understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- How infrastructure became the ultimate monopoly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- How commodity traders profited from instability and scarcity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- How financial institutions helped create a world where wealth moves freely while ordinary people remain trapped by debt, taxes, and rising costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not merely a book about corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book about power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the hidden architecture of modern capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the systems that shape your life, your taxes, your energy bills, your pension, your mortgage, and your future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative, unsettling, and relentlessly researched in style, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Extraction\u003c\/i\u003e challenges readers to ask one uncomfortable question: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen corporations become too big to fail, too connected to regulate, and too essential to replace-who is really in charge?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou may never look at governments, corporations, or your tax bill the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889802952855,"sku":"9798199186643","price":1297.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199186643.webp?v=1781177807","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-great-extraction-licensed-to-loot-top-20-who-made-off-with-your-tax-dollars-9798199186643","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}