John R. Talbott

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John R. Talbott is a bestselling author and former Goldman Sachs investment banker whose newest book is entitled, How I Predicted the Global Economic Crisis*: The Most Amazing Book You'll Never Read. Called an “oracle with a track record” by Bloomberg News, his eight books on economics and politics have accurately detailed and predicted the causes and devastating effects of this entire financial crisis including, in 2003, The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, in 2006, Sell Now! The End of the Housing Bubble and in 2008, Contagion: The Financial Epidemic that is Sweeping the Global ...More Economy.

In addition, John acts as a financial consultant to families as they try to weather this economic crisis. More information on his One on One consulting operation can be found at www.stopthelying.com.

His newest book, How I Predicted, is a great introduction to Talbott’s writings as it utilizes excerpts from his previous books as well as new exposition to demonstrate that this crisis was completely predictable, that it was avoidable and that it was not caused by normal business cycles or poor people trying to buy homes, but rather by an unethical and possibly criminal conspiracy of bankers, their lobbyists and corrupt politicians.

In the new book Talbott examines why the doctrine of free markets works well for most industries, but fails miserably in the banking industry if left unregulated. And it shows that it makes little sense to attempt reform of Wall Street as long as the banking industry controls our congress through lobbying and campaign contributions. Progressives need to know that one of their own accurately predicted the entire mess we are in while libertarian and conservative economists completely missed it. If you don’t learn the real causes of our crisis it may end up costing you your job, your home, your savings and quite possibly, your country.

Formerly, an investment banker for Goldman Sachs and a Visiting Scholar at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, Talbott has since published peer reviewed academic research on democracy, inequality, AIDS prevention and developing country economics. He graduated from Cornell’s School of Engineering and received an MBA from UCLA. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Herald Tribune, The New Republic, the Huffington Post and Salon.com and he has appeared on television as a financial expert on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, CSPAN, MSNBC and CBS as well as on hundreds of radio programs.

To learn more about the financial consulting John does with families or to see his newest book, please visit www.stopthelying.com Media may contact John at johntalbs@hotmail.com to arrange interviews.

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