finance

Explains currency devaluation, its causes, and its effects.

This book gets past the overheated rhetoric and political posturing to explain clearly how and why governments borrow money, how and why they engage in deficit spending, and the short- and long-term effects such practices have on the economy.

Uses several of the author's newspaper columns in the New York Times to describe in chronological-order how George Bush's "boom economy" has failed.

Provides dozens of facts related to money, covering little-known facts about millionaires, currency, taxes, insurance, and spending.