• Bad Money

  • The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money
  • By: Kevin Phillips
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (62 ratings)

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Bad Money

By: Kevin Phillips
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Publisher's summary

The best-selling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put America's global future at risk.

In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing cost of scarce oil. The current housing and mortgage debacle is proof once more of Phillips's prescience, and only the first harbinger of a national crisis. In Bad Money, Phillips describes the consequences of our misguided economic policies, our mounting debt, our collapsing housing market, our threatened oil, and the end of American domination of world markets. America's current challenges (and failures) run striking parallels to the decline of previous leading world economic powers - especially the Dutch and British. Global overreach, worn-out politics, excessive debt, and exhausted energy regimes are all chilling signals that the United States is crumbling as the world superpower.

"Bad money" refers to a new phenomenon in wayward megafinance - the emergence of a U.S. economy that is globally dependent and dominated by hubris-driven financial services. Also "bad" are the risk miscalculations and strategic abuses of new multitrillion-dollar products such as asset-backed securities and the lure of buccaneering vehicles like hedge funds. Finally, the U.S. dollar has been turned into bad money as it has weakened and become vulnerable to the world's other currencies. In all these ways, "bad" finance has failed the American people and pointed U.S. capitalism toward a global crisis. Bad Money is the perfect follow-up to Phillips's last book, whose dire warnings are now proving frighteningly accurate.

©2008 Kevin Phillips (P)2008 Penguin

Critic reviews

"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)

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