Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

Phillips, Kevin

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9780143143284: Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

ISBN 10: 014314328X ISBN 13: 9780143143284

Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks, 2008

A cautionary survey of the role of America's financial sector in compromising the nation's economy and global future examines the sources of such issues as rising debt, high mortgage rates, and increasing oil prices, making sobering predictions about the downfall of America as a world power. Simultaneous.

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Review:

aA harrowing picture of national danger that no American reader will welcome, but that none should ignore. . . . Frighteningly persuasive.a
aAlan Brinkley, "The New York Times"
aAn indispensable presentation of the case against things as they are.a
a"Time"
aSobering . . . positively alarming.a
a"Los Angeles Times"

"A harrowing picture of national danger that no American reader will welcome, but that none should ignore. . . . Frighteningly persuasive."
-Alan Brinkley, The New York Times
"An indispensable presentation of the case against things as they are."
-Time
"Sobering . . . positively alarming."
-Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Kevin Phillips has been a political and economic commentator for more than three decades. A former White House strategist, he is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and NPR and writes for Harper’s and Time. His books include New York Times bestsellers The Politics of Rich and Poor and Wealth and Democracy.

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