"John Talbott's predictions have been spot on."--Newsweek Magazine
"Talbott is an oracle with a track record: His previous books predicted the collapse of both the housing bubble and the tech-stock binge before it."--Bloomberg News
“Talbott is one of only six forecasters in the country that got things right. In 2006, he called the peak in home prices, and then in the beginning of 2012 the trough.”--Wall Street Journal
“You need not
embrace John's political bombast, but you ignore his financial
prescriptions at your peril. For over a decade, he has made
consistently prescient observations about future developments that were
ignored by the vast majority of establishment analysts and
pundits...until they happened. John is a brilliant unconventional
thinker. His concept of measuring investment returns in terms of ounces
of gold instead of units of paper currency could revolutionize
investment practice much as Einstein's general relativity revolutionized
cosmology.”--Peter Fahey, Retired Partner, Goldman Sachs
"Finance is based on trust. But what do you do if you cannot trust
financiers? Talbott, who has long been an acute observer of what's wrong
with our financial system, proposes provocative answers."--Daron
Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT and winner of award for best young economist in the US
"John Talbott, a Wall Street insider, blows a deafening whistle of
financial corruption and government malfeasance. His grave warnings
about Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue come with strong advice about
how to protect ourselves from the next terrible economic storm -- Uncle
Sam's going broke."--Laurence Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston
University and co-author of The Clash of Generations
"Brutally honest, and genuine, Talbott identifies the key problem our
society and economic system face; corporations, especially banks, have
way too much political power and cannot be trusted with investors’ money
as governments, regulators, and even academics betray their
responsibilities to the public. Talbott calls it like he sees it."--Anat
Admati, Professor of Finance and Economics, Stanford Graduate School of
Business
"John provides a shrewd discussion of money and politics—and the
deleterious effect the latter has on the former—and gives a
provocative study of the dangers of impending runaway
inflation."--Publishers Weekly
"I only wish I had discovered John years earlier - it would have saved
me hundreds of thousands of dollars I lost in the stock market crash.
Better late than never - I am following his advice now and sleep very
well at night, feeling confident that I am no longer trusting my
investments and financial future to so-called investment advisers on
Wall Street."--Larry S.
"In a world full
of shysters and liars it is so refreshing to see that all is not lost,
there is still integrity even in this present financial darkness through
John''s insights."--Elizabeth R.
