The Crisis and After?, Jacques Attali

"How did we get here? The world seemed to be doing very well; economic growth was the fastest in history, and everything indicated that it would continue across the globe, thanks to abundant savings and extraordinary technical progress. And now we are on the eve of a global depression, the most severe in eighty years. The purpose of this book is to explain, as simply as possible, this mystery, to resolve it, to prevent the crisis from spiraling into a global political catastrophe. And to ensure that we are never caught off guard again! "