Bad Money : The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (a Penguin Group Especial from Penguin Books)

from PointedPundit

Monday, June 23, 2008 Phillips Loses Sight of an Essential American Trait Bad Money By Kevin Phillips Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Viking Adult (April 15, 2008) ISBN-10: 0670019070 ISBN-13: 978-0670019076 Rating - 3 stars I have spent four decades reading Kevin Phillips' books. In other forums...

from cdeuker

Okay, we're all going to hell in a handbasket. Oil, bad mortgage loans, banking system that is not transparent. The Euro or the Yen will replace the dollar as the currency of choice. Our standard of living is actually falling. Education doesn't really help. Gloom and doom. Maybe it's all correct,...

from RoadReader

The book describes all of the faults with the current global and American economic crisis in great detail. Along with other elements of society that use ruses and deceits to bilk the average person out of their cash and dreams, the so-called 'money managers' have taken it upon themselves to insti...

from worldsedge

I have a grand total of two complaints to level against this work: First, it tries to cover too much territory for a mere 200 or so pages of text, excluding notes and index. Second, it appears Mr. Phillips doesn't quite "get" the Efficient Market Hypothesis, as discussed on pages 73-79 of the tex...

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Kevin Phillips has published 13 books relating to the subject of doom of the American financial system and as of this review almost 100 reviewers on Amazon have recommended this book and admitted Phillips shows no solution to the decline of the US economy, largely because we have left agriculture...