The Leading Indicators by Gregg Easterbrook

The Leading Indicators

Gregg Easterbrook
Thomas Dunne Books
Nov 2012
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Tom Perrotta meets David Brooks in a powerful modern parable about one American family's fall from grace during the recession Margo and Tom Helot have the perfect life.  He works in finance; she's an enterprising stay-at-home mom.  They inhabit a fully redecorated home complete with expensive his-and-hers cars in the drive and situated in the peaceful, leafy suburb of a major American city. Day after day delivery trucks arrive bearing packages from the kinds of places all Americans wish they received packages: Williams-Sonoma, Bergdorf Goodman, Villeroy & Boch.  The family is rounded out by two delightful children with good grades, well on their way to top colleges.   Then it all comes crashing down around them: Tom's boss reveals that due to "regrettable oversights," their high-flying company actually was a fraud.
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Publisher Thomas Dunne Books
Published 2012
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