Former Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips believes that a perfect economic storm is rewing. He blames the explosion of debt, our use of fuzzy economic statistics, and rising energy costs for leading us beyond the precipice and into a major financial crisis. It’s all detailed in his new book, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, and he speaks with Faith Salie on Fair Game.
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