2029 Financial Collapse: Lionel Shriver’s Dystopian Outlook on the US

Interview with Lionel Shriver, author of The Mandibles on the Big Picture. Full audio podcast can be heard on the Newshour page here or on iTunes here.

Those of us with a deep interest in economics and financial issues often try to peer into the future and speculate about what’s to come. Sometimes, this exercise is meant to produce tangible investment advice, but other times, we’re interested in something deeper to better understand the large-scale forces operating at the national level.

This time on Financial Sense, we speak with Lionel Shriver, author of a new gripping novel called The Mandibles, which speculates on what life might look like in the US in the decades to come.

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