Michael Panzner is the author of the new best-seller, When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era. He’s a former Wall Street insider himself and one of the very, very first writers to accurately predict where the economy was headed in his 2007 book Financial Armageddon. His views are refreshingly “agnostic” when it comes to matters of liberal vs conservative, and this prevents his analysis from being muddled by an ideological lens. Visit his Financial Armageddon blog. (Note: There are several spots of troublesome audio, but it’s worth getting past them to hear what Michael has to say in this fascinating discussion.)