If you want to see what is going on now, how it has occured and what the future holds, I recommend you read

"America's Financial Apocalypse: How to Profit from the Next Great Depression." by M. Stathis

This book was written in 2006 (with a condensed version in 2008) and it is hands down the most insightful out there.

A condensed version?? Right there, I can see a Recession in progress!

Well, would you prefer the condensed version of the apocalypse? Or the long-drawn-out version?

I.e., would you rather go out with a bang? Or a whimper?

Fire? Or ice?

Our choices seem to be rapidly becoming very limited.