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	title:	Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
	author:	Kevin Phillips
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Penguin Books
	released:	March 31, 2009
	isbn:	0143114808
	isbn-13:	9780143114802

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Customer Reviews
An Overlong and Not Very Insightful Look at Excess Debt, Peak Oil, Bad Loans, Bubbles, and Reduced Credibility - Rated The short message from this book is that the U.S. economy is in trouble and that trouble is about to get worse. Why? Private and government debt and spending are out of control and the chickens haven't come home to roost yet in terms of higher interest rates and higher costs of imports, the government lies about inflation, the credit crisis isn't over by a long shot, peak oil production will cause prices to shoot through the roof, our manufacturing base is gutted, economic growth is going to be lousy, foreigners aren't going to keep taking dollars, and nobody likes us outside of the country. Are you ready to become a second-rate country? Unless you want to see some of the excellent tables and charts in the book that document these points, you don't need to read the book. Mr. Phillips doesn't add much to that brief message except to make continual references to prior histories of other nations. You would do better to spend your time working on solutions to the problems. The book is also very dated, focusing on the conditions of August 2007 and the levels of oil prices and debt problems then. As we all know, those were the good old days compared to June 2008. The writing style is also annoying in that Mr. Phillips doesn't assemble his points into a logical pattern to "prove" what might come next. It's an overly qualitative and anecdotal approach to issues that have quantitative implications. There's not a bit of advice in the book about what you can do to help secure your future: This book seems to be totally aimed at setting the agenda for the next president of the United States.

Customer Reviews

An Overlong and Not Very Insightful Look at Excess Debt, Peak Oil, Bad Loans, Bubbles, and Reduced Credibility - Rated 2/5
The short message from this book is that the U.S. economy is in trouble and that trouble is about to get worse. Why? Private and government debt and spending are out of control and the chickens haven't come home to roost yet in terms of higher interest rates and higher costs of imports, the government lies about inflation, the credit crisis isn't over by a long shot, peak oil production will cause prices to shoot through the roof, our manufacturing base is gutted, economic growth is going to be lousy, foreigners aren't going to keep taking dollars, and nobody likes us outside of the country. Are you ready to become a second-rate country?

Unless you want to see some of the excellent tables and charts in the book that document these points, you don't need to read the book. Mr. Phillips doesn't add much to that brief message except to make continual references to prior histories of other nations. You would do better to spend your time working on solutions to the problems.

The book is also very dated, focusing on the conditions of August 2007 and the levels of oil prices and debt problems then. As we all know, those were the good old days compared to June 2008.

The writing style is also annoying in that Mr. Phillips doesn't assemble his points into a logical pattern to "prove" what might come next. It's an overly qualitative and anecdotal approach to issues that have quantitative implications.

There's not a bit of advice in the book about what you can do to help secure your future: This book seems to be totally aimed at setting the agenda for the next president of the United States.