Jim discusses the coming crises that will be caused by excess leverage in financial systems, the potential fall of the US dollar as the global reserve currency, and the virtues of gold. Jim’s banged this drum for more than a decade, and there is very little insight into when events will occur which makes the book read like a sermon. There is some interesting discussion about the ascension of the USD to reserve currency status. The last chapter is a spoiler for Lionel Shriver’s The Mandibles.