There is no one quite like Kevin Phillips. As a political strategist, he earned fame and presidential recognition as the author of The Coming Republican Majority, but since then his astute political and economic commentary has cut across party lines, excoriating leaders on both sides for ineptitude and cowardice. Bad Money might be best seen as the even more focused sequel to his American Theocracy. Clearly, Phillips thinks that the situation has grown worse since that 2006 book: "The parallel to the historical Achilles heels of previous leading world economic powers -- global over-reach, worn-out politics, excessive debt, financialization and exhausted energy regions -- are chilling." No simple jeremiad, Bad Money is an alarum against the politics of evasion.
Language
English
Format
MP3 Book
Release
April 15, 2008
ISBN 13
9781429592147
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
There is no one quite like Kevin Phillips. As a political strategist, he earned fame and presidential recognition as the author of The Coming Republican Majority, but since then his astute political and economic commentary has cut across party lines, excoriating leaders on both sides for ineptitude and cowardice. Bad Money might be best seen as the even more focused sequel to his American Theocracy. Clearly, Phillips thinks that the situation has grown worse since that 2006 book: "The parallel to the historical Achilles heels of previous leading world economic powers -- global over-reach, worn-out politics, excessive debt, financialization and exhausted energy regions -- are chilling." No simple jeremiad, Bad Money is an alarum against the politics of evasion.