Rigged financial markets and hopeless under-regulation on Wall Street are not new problems。 In this book， Susanne Trimbath gives a sobering account of naked short selling， the failure to settle， and her efforts over decades to get this fixed。 Twenty-five years ago， Trimbath was working “backstage at Wall Street” when a group of corporate trust specialists told her about a problem in shareholder voting rights。 When she went to senior management at Depository Trust Company （DTC）， they brushed it off saying， “You can’t balance the world。” Ten years later， a lawyer from Texas would tell her that the same problem was about to blow up the financial markets: Wall Street brokers are using short sales and fails to deliver to grab the assets of American entrepreneurs。 This is a cautionary tale。 What started as a regulatory failure turned into a regulatory crisis。 Global financial markets may not survive what comes next。