Fate of the states
Subtitle: the new geography of American prosperity
By: Meredith Whitney
Publisher: Portfolio/Penguin
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781591845706
Subjects: Economic policy; Financial crises; Recessions; U.S. states; Economic conditions
Description: Reveals how cities and states are suffering from a more dramatic economic decline than most people realize, predicting a devastating imminent municipal crisis while sharing recommendations for preventing a broader catastrophe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. [209]-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: The fall --; title: It starts at home --; title: Housing revisited --; title: States gone wild --; title: Pensions: the debt bomb nobody's talking about --; title: The negative feedback loop from hell --; title: The new American poverty -- -- Part II.; title: The rise --; title: A new map of prosperity --; title: State arbitrage --; title: David takes on Goliath: new political precedents --; title: The way forward.