Upside Down

In his follow-up to the award-winning Maxed Out book and documentary, James D. Scurlock tackles another national scandal leading up to a crisis far bigger than the financial industry meltdown of 2008. In the same infectious prose as Maxed Out, but requiring only a third of the pages and a single, metaphor-laden jaunt to Las Vegas, Scurlock reveals how free money has become the new easy credit—and how this has turned the economy, and the country, upside down.