This book successfully points out much of what has been done in the last 100 years to lead us past what is likely the point of no return, suggesting many ways to help and even curb the devastation, while discussing how things will be likely to go down in best and worst case scenarios. Great informative read.

His solution for everything seems to be less government. Unless you buy into Freeman Chicago school economic non-sense you won't like this book.

Looking forward to the updated version. Excellent! I am also interested in other titles mentioned in this book. Thank you for your insight.

I would not.

The genre is good just not this book.

Echo chamber book if I ever read one. Capitalism is part of the key but not everything. Look at countries with little to no taxes or regulation. Jamaica has little to no tax laws or regulations and is very nice to vacation too but few would look there for quality jobs.

He makes some great points. Hopefully it does not come true, but I believe he is right. The question is when?

I knew basics about our national debt, fiat currency, the gold standard, the fed, etc. but I cannot overstate the amount of detailed information in this book. Going to be a must read for my entire family. A huge bubble is going to burst in the future. This is what to read on educating yourself and begin to get ready. Read it NOW!

Peter Schiff is way more interesting and engaging on YouTube. This book just seemed to go on and on about his suggested solutions, which are from the realm of fantasies (e.g. abolishing taxes. Great idea, but will never happen, so why are we wasting time taking about it?)

not sure. i have two other books by Peter Schiff that i felt were very good. this one...not so good. i am pretty sure i will not purchase another book narrated by Oliver Wyman. His narration comes off as if he is reading to children or the coaxing of a small puppy to do the right thing.

nope..maybe further books by Peter Schiff

Sean Pratt

no character but i would cut his far right beliefs that attack seniors and people who live in poverty. Entitlement fraud costs us a lot less that what the financial professionals stoled when the housing bubble burst.

Does he really believe that any money the cuts he recommends will save will really help. I believe the CEOs will be the only ones that profit.

I wish that I had been exposed to some of these ideas about 15 years ago! Then I wouldn't have $50k+ student loan debt on my back...

Give this book to anyone looking to go to college, not knowing what they want a degree in. Better to not waste the money on a worthless degree and being stuck with tons of debt.

First let me say the inflection and emphasis the narrator uses made this very dificult to get through and actually made me keep having to remind myself to evaluate the content and not his smarmy sarcasm. On content, it seems like the author is not done crowing about how he saw the housing bubble for what it was and now wants to use that shop worn credibility to tell us how to fix virtually all of the economy. He stops short when taking on the massive expense and misuse of the military but all other institutions from Healthcare and education to the staples of taxes and Social Security. He shows the same pussyfooting lack of conviction on the military as most politicians do. All other government functions are fair game but not the military. For that we just need a few tweaks. I find myself agreeing with much of the assessment of the problems but the proposed plan to "fix" things is almost always either completely absurd or the chances of adoption are nihl. There is just no way what the author proposes will be adopted short of another revolution and a start from scratch. Some of his proposals are just bad all around like the total abolition of the FDA because it has many problems. Just abolish the whole agency because it drives up costs in drug development. He also ignores the human nature factor. Saying if you abolish employer health care will immediately cause employers to pass the savings on to their employees in cash right away is just ridiculous.