Synopsis

Praise for BAILOUT NATION

"A beam of enlightened thinking in a sea of delusional complacency."
—Nouriel Roubini

"If you want to know how we got into this mess, then Ritholtz's Bailout Nation is where you should begin. He chronicled the collapse from the beginning with a rare clarity, and that shines through in this book."
—Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail

"One of the biggest myths of the great credit debacle of 2008 is that nobody saw it coming. Bull. Barry Ritholtz did. In Bailout Nation, Ritholtz throws our current travails into historical relief. For those who want to know how we got to this miserable place—and who want to have fun doing it—this is essential reading."
—Daniel Gross, Newsweek and Slate

"Highly entertaining rants against the stupidity of our biggest financial institutions. Ritholtz brings intelligence and moral outrage to this book."
—Rex Nutting, MarketWatch

"Nobody in the financial punditry world has been 'righter' about the economic crisis unfolding than Barry. If there was such a thing as a financial pundits Hall of Fame, he would have to be an inaugural inductee. Ignore Bailout Nation at your own peril."
—Tobin Smith, founder, ChangeWave Research, and Contributing Market Analyst, Fox News

"Bailout Nation provides an easily understandable and vividly descriptive road map as to how our domestic economy got into the rut we are now in ... It is a must-read for serious students of financial history ... and for all investors in bonds and stocks who want to preserve and grow their capital in the future!"
—Doug Kass, Seabreeze Partners, Real Money.com, CNBC

Biography

Barry Ritholtz is CEO and director of equity research at FusionIQ.com, an online quantitative research firm. He regularly appears as an expert on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, and PBS, and he is the author of the topranked financial weblog, The Big Picture, hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “what the in-crowd knows.”