These have included the "economic hit men" who seduced, bribed and cajoled political elites in the first and third worlds to enter into a devil's bargain with financial markets (Perkins 2004), and the legions of small-time fly-by-night predatory mortgage salesmen who preyed largely on the racialized urban poor of America (and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere), hawking sub-prime mortgages (McNally 2011, 102–108; Taibbi 2010, 78–123).

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 153