While working for the <i>Financial Times</i>, investigative journalist Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the cr¿ de la cr¿ of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse''s mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, and a reach much too close to home. Owing to the very nature of the <i>Financial Times</i>, however, Kennard was not able to publish these findings as part of his day job. Enter <i>The Racket</i>, now in a fully updated second edition. This tell-all book, reported from all corners of the world, will transform everything you thought you knew about how the world works¿and in whose interests. Kennard reports not onl