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I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.: 26 (Agora Series)

I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.: 26 (Agora Series)

by Addison Wiggin (Author), Addison Wiggin (Author), Addison Wiggin (Author), Kate Incontrera (Contributor)

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The United States has been spending its way deeper and deeper into the red, and saddling future generations with the mess but who's paying attention? To answer that question, this companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A. talks with some of the most revered voices in the nation, including Warren Buffett; former Treasury Secretaries Paul O'Neill and Robert Rubin; and Pete Peterson, CEO of The Blackstone Group. Defiantly non-partisan, the empowering solutions outlined in these pages are a must-read for any American concerned about the current state of affairs.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Wiley
Published: 29 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 0470222778
ISBN 13: 9780470222775

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Praise for the theatrical version of I.O.U.S.A.: I.O.U.S.A. is a clear, cogent and compelling primer on contemporary American economics and the not-so-small matter of how we ended up at the edge of a precipice. -- Toronto Star The buck stops here in this sobering but disarmingly irreverent look at the national debt. -- Hollywood Reporter I.O.U.S.A. | 3.5 Stars! ...it accomplishes an amazing thing. It explains the national debt, the foreign trade deficit, the decrease in personal savings, how the prime interest rate works, and the weakness of our leaders. -- Roger Ebert An alternately amusing and alarming primer on America's off-the-charts fiscal irresponsibility. -- Variety Equal parts enlightening and alarming, I.O.U.S.A. highlights our unwise preference for short-term reward over long-term planning. NY Times For anyone seeking a clearer understanding of the financial state of the union -- and strong enough to take the sobering news -- [I.O.U.S.A.] is a good place to start. LA Times Some even wonder if it might do for the economy what Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth did for the environment... I.O.U.S.A is a bold attempt to highlight a potentially huge problem. -- The Economist
Author Bio
Addison Wiggin is the Executive Publisher of Agora Financial, an investment research firm based in Baltimore, Maryland. Agora publishes The Daily Reckoning, a financial newsletter with more than 500,000 readers in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia, and is translated daily into French, German, and Spanish (www.dailyreckoning.com). It has received praise from mainstream publications, including Money, New York Times Magazine, and MarketWatch.com. Mr. Wiggin is the coauthor with Bill Bonner of the international bestsellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt, and author of The Demise of the Dollar . . . And Why It's Even Better for Your Investments. He is also the Executive Producer and a writer of the feature-length documentary film I.O.U.S.A., which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Kate Incontrera is the Managing Editor of The Daily Reckoning. Ms. Incontrera was also an associate producer and writer on the critically acclaimed documentary film I.O.U.S.A. Before joining Agora Financial in 2004, Ms. Incontrera studied writing at the University of Cambridge and Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.