The National Debt

"Lawrence Malkin has produced the ultimate oxymoron: a book of readable economics."
-Professor Murray Weidenbaum, President Reagan's former Chief Economic Advisor

What, exactly, is the National Debt-and to whom do we owe the money-two trillion dollars worth? That's a pile of one thousand dollar bills 134 miles high, and climbing. Just paying the interest costs is equivalent to the entire federal income tax collected west of the Mississippi.

How did we get into such a fix? This book explains wh...