Book Spine Poetry: Time to Pay the Piper

It's Time to Pay the Piper

Help! I can't pay my bills

Empire of debt

Past due

Whatever happened to thrift?

Help! I Can’t Pay My Bills: Surviving a Financial Crisis by Sally Herigstad  332.024 H546h
     A CPA lays down the law on how to survive and recover from a financial crisis.

Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Crisis by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin             336.74 B716e

     The American economy: “You pay in cash. You pay in blood. And you pay with your own soul.” It’s all gloom and doom, at least according to Bonner and Wiggin.

Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy by Peter Goodman            330.973 G653p

     Goodman recounts how, “for two decades Americans binged on imports and easy credit, a spending spree abetted by ever-increasing home values - and then the bill came due.”   

     

Whatever Happened to Thrift?: Why Americans Don’t Save and What to Do about It by Ronald Wilcox  332.6 W667w

      Despite the benefits of saving for the future, many Americans simply don't save enough. Shame on us.