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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back – by Friedman and Mandelbaum – A Review By Bill Dahl

“The two of us are not pessimists when it comes to America and its future. We are optimists, but we are also frustrated. We are frustrated optimists.”

Reckless Endangerment – How Outsized Ambition, Greed, And Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner

“Will a debacle like the credit crisis of 2008 ever happen again? Most certainly, because Congress decided against fixing the problem of too-big-to-fail institutions when it had the chance.” p. 304.