The Great Economic Train Wreck

<p>We tend to think of dominos as standing the tiles on end and then tipping the <br> first one over toppling into the second which falls into the third until <br> finally all the dominoes have fallen. In 2008 the first of many financial <br> dominos began falling. Many were worried and looked to Washington for <br> leadership. Instead we saw only politics-as-usual. But as 2009 and 2010 <br> unfolded it became too benign to suggest our stricken economy was simply <br> toppled dominos. It was more accurate to describe our condition as an <br> economic train wreck. The financial chaos as a result of the crisis was <br> heightened by an extraordinary government intervention to triage the <br> shattered economy. Many feared with justification that we may be teetering <br> on the brink of this generation's Great Depression. The near-death experience <br> the U.S. economy has suffered forced Americans to turn inward and question <br> our leaders. Our worries have multiplied. Our free market system and <br> ultimately the American Dream itself now seem more vulnerable than ever. <br> More importantly we doubt ourselves and our leaders and long for our <br> life-before. This is a book that chronicles the unfolding disaster of our <br> nation's financial train wreck. For two crucial years Kevin Clark had <br> broadcast financial analysis that became a play-by-play of the economic <br> collapse. Now with hindsight he revisits recent history and brings what he <br> calls a Main Street perspective of this most critical moment in the modern <br> life of America.</p>