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The First Book from n+1—an Essential Chronicle of Our Financial Crisis

HFM: Where are you going to buy protection on the U.S. government's credit? I mean, if the U.S. defaults, what bank is going to be able to make good on that contract? Who are you going to buy that contract from, the Martians?

n+1: When does this begin to feel like less of a cyclical thing, like the weather, and more of a permanent, end-of-the-world kind of thing?

HFM: When you see me selling apples out on the street, that's when you should go stock up on guns and ammunition.

The New York Times - Dwight Garner

…thoughtful, funny and unpretentious…the view from a man clinging to a palm tree in a hurricane…These interviews…began in 2007, when the subprime mortgage disaster become impossible to ignore, and continued through last year. They're an urbane if frazzled chronicle of shock and despair.