TY - BOOK AU - Skene, Leigh TI - The Impoverishment of Nations: the issues facing the post meltdown global economy SN - 978-1-84668-332-9 (pbk.) U1 - TRRC 330.90511 LEI PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Profile Books KW - Put not thy trust in fiat money KW - Credit and financial markets KW - The global financial system N1 - Include bibliography reference and index material. N2 - Early in 2007 Leigh Skene warned of the danger of a meltdown in global markets. Now, while governments spend furiously to rescue the global economy, he again challenges received wisdom. In The Impoverishment of Nations, he prescribes a different solution, outlining a plan to deal with a very different economic future, following the financial crisis that ended the longest period of prosperity for some five hundred years. We have entered a period of uncertainty, which has placed a huge burden on public finances. Governments have spent 10 trillion on bailing out financial institutions a ER -