Foreword.
I.O.U.S.A. Cast of Characters.
Acknowledgments.
Part One: The Mission.
The Mission.
Chapter 1 The Real State of the Union.
Chapter 2 The Budget Deficit.
Chapter 3 The Savings Deficit.
Chapter 4 The Trade Deficit.
Chapter 5 The Leadership Deficit
Epilogue.
Part Two: The Interviews.
The Interviews.
Alice Rivlin.
William Bonner.
Robert Rubin.
Peter G. Peterson.
Ron Paul.
Paul A. Volcker.
Dr. Alan Greenspan.
Warren Buffett.
James Areddy.
Paul O’Neill.
Arthur Laffer.
Steve Forbes.
Additional Resources.
Index.

Addison Wiggin is the Executive Publisher of Agora
Financial, an investment research firm based in Baltimore,
Maryland. Agora publishes The Daily Reckoning, a financial
newsletter with more than 500, 000 readers in the United States,
Great Britain, and Australia, and is translated daily into French,
German, and Spanish (www.dailyreckoning.com). It has received
praise from mainstream publications, including Money, New
York Times Magazine, and Market Watch.com. Mr. Wiggin is the
coauthor with Bill Bonner of the international bestsellers
Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt, and
author of The Demise of the Dollar . . . And Why It’s Even
Better for Your Investments. He is also the Executive Producer
and a writer of the feature-length documentary film I.O.U.S.A.,
which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance
Film Festival.
Kate Incontrera is the Managing Editor of The Daily
Reckoning. Ms. Incontrera was also an associate producer and
writer on the critically acclaimed documentary film I.O.U.S.A.
Before joining Agora Financial in 2004, Ms. Incontrera studied
writing at the University of Cambridge and Towson University in
Baltimore, Maryland.