If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t understand why the economy is such a mess. What you do know is that gas costs almost $4 a gallon, every trip to the grocery store is a shock, your neighbor’s house is in foreclosure, your 401(k) is shrinking, and you didn’t go to Europe this summer because the dollar plummeted. You may have heard that something called Be (...)
September 12, 2008
Books
Greed 101
The Trillion Dollar MeltdownEasy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit CrashCharles R. MorrisPublicAffairs Books, $22.95, 224 pp.
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