Authors and Acknowledgements

Authors

Dennis Keegan is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of the Auspex Group, a hedge fund headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. Previously, he served for fifteen years with Salomon Brothers Inc., in New York and London. During his career with Salomon Brothers he headed U.S. proprietary trading, European fixed income arbitrage, and foreign exchange. He was chairman of Salomon's risk management committee, co-head of global fixed income, and co-chief executive of European operations. Mr. Keegan earned has bachelor's degree in economics at UCLA, and an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. He currently serves on the Anderson School's Board of Visitors.

David W. West is Founder and CEO of Civicom, an advanced telecom and web-conferencing services company. He is former general manager of a division of Nestlé, the world's largest food company, where he championed a number of highly successful new businesses. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he also received a "Making a Difference" Award for his pioneering work in corporate philanthropy.

 

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Jim Nelson Black for his important contributions to this project both as a researcher and as a writer-editor. Also, this book was assembled under unusual time pressure due to the time sensitivity of its content and we owe a big thanks to our wives and families for putting up with much as we worked on the book while simultaneously running our companies.



 

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Contrary to what you've heard...

  1. The U.S. economy has been very healthy
  2. China is not an economic threat to America
  3. "Tax cuts for the rich" and war spending have not caused disastrous budget deficits
  4. Defense spending is down, as a percent of GDP
  5. Top earners are carrying more of the tax load than ever
  6. The middle class has benefited from the growing economy
  7. Income disparity has not skyrocketed in recent years
  8. The federal debt is not cause for alarm
  9. The U.S. has been increasing in global economic importance
  10. American manufacturing is healthy
  11. NAFTA has been good for America
  12. Offshore outsourcing is good for America
  13. The dollar is not extremely weak, and currency weakness is not necessarily bad
  14. We are not in Iraq because "Bush lied."
  15. Iraq is not destined to fail
  16. The effort in Afghanistan has been an inspiring success
  17. Gas prices are not up because of Iraq or a conspiracy
  18. The U.N. Oil for food scandal was proven and huge
  19. Bush's foreign policy was neither "go it alone," nor a failure.
  20. Katrina did not expose federal incompetence and apathy.
  21. America's carbon emissions trend has been better than Europe's.
  22. The American health care system is the envy of the world.
  23. How public opinion polls can mislead
  24. Wake up America

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"If you only read one book this year, read this one.”
— Congressman Tom Price

“…the discussion is pointed, accurate, and insightful."
— Michael Fossel,  Michael Fossel, M.D., Ph.D.; Author of Reversing Human Aging

“Keegan and West show clearly how the dominant media culture is damaging our economy by creating a false sense of impending doom.”
— Jed Babbin, Editor of Human Events; author of "In the Words of our Enemies"

"West and Keegan have it right on health care. The free market is the best path to a good health care system."
— Richard L. Scott, Founder of Columbia Health Care (now FCA), Solantic, and Alijor.com

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