A Wall Street Journal
Business Bestseller

Reviews

Johnson and Kwak shot to prominence a couple of years ago after co-authoring 13 Bankers, a searing and readable account of the financial crisis, and their latest book is equally lucid—and alarming.

Gillian Tett, Financial Times

An account every citizen should read to understand how the national deficit affects our future.

—Kevin G. Keane, San Francisco Chronicle

A thorough, scholarly account of how the country got into this predicament and how it can dig its way out.

—James Pressley, Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Johnson and Kwak bring dispassionate insights to bear on the bedeviling question of how to fix our fiscal mess before it gets fixed for us

—Steve Weinberg, USA Today

An excellent explication of how sheer ignorance of history (not to mention economics) can lead to policy prescriptions sure to lead to disaster

—Menzie Chinn, Econbrowser

Media

Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2012

The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, April 5, 2012

Fresh Air, WHYY, April 5, 2012

On Point, WBUR, April 11, 2012

Fox Business, April 5, 2012

MIT News, April 7, 2012

Marketplace, April 10, 2012

BBC News, April 10, 2012

Focus, Illinois Public Media, May 2, 2012

The Joy Cardin Show, Wisconsin Public Media, May 3, 2012