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"Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality?...as Jane Mayer shows in this powerful, meticulously reported history, a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the American political system...Their core beliefs--that taxes are a form of tyranny; that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom--are sincerely held. But these...

Celebrated economic policy maker and political theorist Robert B. Reich argues that the nation's 2008 economic collapse is the result of an increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top--and a middle class that had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living. To ensure that prosperity is widely shared, he continues, requires the implementation of a much broader safety net for the middle class financed by higher marginal...

"A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."Tara Westover, author of Educated. The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions...

Michael Lewis offers a critical look at the financial collapse of 2008 and reveals how the American economy shot itself in the foot. With cynical wit and humor, Lewis exposes the bungling villains who steered the economy toward a recession and chronicles the harrowing attempts of a few hopeless heroes who foresaw this tragedy. Presents an analysis of the economic crisis of 2008-2009, citing such factors as expanded home ownership and risky derivative...

From the former Treasury Secretary, an account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression.

In this blockbuster follow-up to the "New York Times"-bestseller "The Roots of Obama's Rage," D'Souza reveals how President Obama's recent actions prove his anti-colonialist roots and predicts how much worse America will be if President Obama wins a second term.

Predicts a worse crash if key economic changes cannot be made, arguing that American consumer habits are at the heart of today's problems and recommends that the nation declare bankruptcy and rebuild broken systems from scratch.

"Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to ... Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition--we're working harder than ever to avoid change ... Cowen [believes that] there are significant collateral downsides...

"By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into the equivalent of a medically induced coma. Nick Timiraos...draws on extensive interviews to detail the...the largest, swiftest U.S. economic policy response since World War II. Trillion dollar triage goes inside the Federal Reserve...to chronicle how its plainspoken chairman,...

An assessment of the U.S. financial crisis and its lessons explores its complex contributing factors while revealing some of its more devastating consequences, outlining potentially divisive solutions that may be necessary for recovery.