Washoe County Library System

The United States of America is in danger of becoming a Third World nation. The evidence is all around us: Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the jobs that have formed the backbone of our economy; our education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow's workforce to land good 21st century jobs; our infrastructure is crumbling; our economic system has been reduced to recurring episodes of Corporations Gone Wild; our political...

Frontline investigates the inside story of how Washington has failed to solve the country's problems of debt and deficit.

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.

"The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories-why they're wrong, the harm they've done, and the theories that would vastly improve on them. Jeff Madrick-former New York Timesbusiness columnist and now Harper's economics columnist-mounts a comprehensive case against prevailing mainstream economic thinking, illustrating how it has damaged markets, infrastructure, and individual...

"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.

The founder of Oscar Capital Management and SkyBridge Capital draws on insights and stories from his long-term relationship with Donald Trump to explain how the current administration's economic policies are promoting a thriving Wall Street.

Surveying the current state of American society and economy, this companion to The Seventeen Traditions offers 17 solutions, including cracking down on corporate crime, rebooting civic education, and innovating new programs to create job growth, to save the country before it's too late.

In this revisionist history of the American state, former Reagan budget director and bestselling author David Stockman shows where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored. He argues that Washington -- and especially the Federal Reserve -- have fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts. These policies have converged to bloat...