1. “Focus on Inequality and Income,” Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Directorate for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs, December 2014, http://www.oecd.org/social/Focus-Inequality-and-Growth-2014.pdf.
2. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, “Wealth Inequality in the US Since 1913,” NBER Working Paper No. 20615, October 2014.
3. Estelle Sommiller and Mark Price, “The Increasingly Unequal Income States of America,” Economic Policy Institute, January 26, 2015, http://www.epi.org/publication/income-inequality-by-state-1917-to-2012/.
4. “17 Things We Learned About Income Inequality in 2014,” Atlantic, December 23, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/17-things-we-learned-about-income-inequality-in-2014/383917/.
5. Federal Reserve Board of Governors, “Changes in US Family Finances from 2010 to 2013: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances,” Federal Reserve Bulletin 100, no. 4 (September 2014), http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2014/pdf/scf14.pdf.
6. Rakesh Kochhar and Richard Fry, “Wealth Inequality Has Widened Along Racial, Ethnic Lines Since the End of the Great Recession,” Pew Research Center, December 12, 2014, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gaps-great-recession/.
7. Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014).
8. Mohamed A. El-Erian, “The Inequality Trifecta,” Project Syndicate, October 17, 2014, http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/imf-world-bank-annual-meetings-and-inequality-by-mohamed-a--el-erian-2014-10.
9. Madeline Ostrander, “What Poverty Does to the Young Brain,” New Yorker, June 4, 2015, http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-poverty-does-to-the-young-brain.
10. Frank Bruni, “Class, Cost and College,” New York Times, May 17, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/opinion/sunday/bruni-class-cost-and-college.html.
11. McKinsey Global Institute, “QE and Ultra-Low Rates,” 2013.
CHAPTER 12: THE PERSISTENT TRUST DEFICIT
1. Ian Fraser, Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank That Broke Britain (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2014).
2. Joshua Zumbrun and Alaa Shahine, “Retired Bernanke Harbors Regret on Main Street’s View of Bailout,” Bloomberg News, March 4, 2014, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-04/bernanke-says-u-s-economy-seeing-progress.html.
3. Timothy F. Geithner, Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (New York: Crown, 2014).
4. Binyamin Appelbaum, “Yellen Says Restraining the Fed’s Oversight Would Be a ‘Grave Mistake,’ ” New York Times, July 16, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/business/yellen-says-constraining-fed-would-be-a-grave-mistake.html.
5. Panel discussion remarks quoted in Jeff Kearns, “Fed’s $4 Trillion Assets Draw Lawmaker Ire Amid Bubble Concerns,” Bloomberg News, December 17, 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-17/fed-s-4-trillion-assets-draw-lawmaker-ire-amid-bubble-concern.html.
6. Ibid.
7. Peter Eavis, “New York Fed Is Criticized on Oversight,” November 21, 2014, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/new-york-fed-chief-faces-withering-criticism-at-senate-hearing.
8. Liz Alderman, “Netherlands Asks Bankers to Swear to God,” New York Times, December 12, 2014, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/netherlands-asks-bankers-to-swear-to-god.
9. Mohamed A. El-Erian, “The Threat to the Central Bank Brand,” Project Syndicate, June 4, 2013, http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-growing-risk-to-central-bankers--credibility-by-mohamed-a--el-erian.
10. Guy Kawasaki, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions (New York: Penguin Books, 2012).
CHAPTER 13: NATIONAL POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION
1. “The Great Fracturing,” Economist, February 21, 2015, http://www.econo mist.com/news/leaders/21644147-britains-slide-six-party-politics-presages-instability-and-crisis-legitimacy-great.
2. Mohamed A. El-Erian, “I Don’t Know What Will Happen If We Default, and I Don’t Want to Find Out,” Atlantic, October 10, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/i-dont-know-what-will-happen-if-we-default-and-i-dont-want-to-find-out/280467/.
3. For an insightful discussion of the various components of this balancing act, see Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business (London: John Murray, 2014).
4. Mohamed A. El-Erian, “The Very Messy Politics of Economic Divergence,” Project Syndicate, March 2015, http://www.project-syndicate.org/com mentary/economic-divergence-global-politics-by-mohamed-a--el-erian-2015-03.
CHAPTER 14: THE “G-0” SLIDE INTO THE “INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC NON-SYSTEM”
1. The term was coined more than ten years ago by Jim O’Neil, Goldman Sachs’s chief economist at that time. It now refers to the grouping of countries consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
2. Mohamed A. El-Erian, “The Real Message of the BRICS Summit,” Bloomberg View, July 17, 2014, http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-17/the-real-message-of-the-brics-summit.
3. Mohamed A. El-Erian, “U.S. Opposition to Asian Bank Is Self-Destructive,” Bloomberg View, March 31, 2015, http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-31/el-erian-u-s-opposition-to-asia-bank-is-self-destructive.
4. Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends (New York: PublicAffairs, 2015).
5. Mohamed A. El-Erian, “Is the World Bank Losing Asia?,” Bloomberg View, July 10, 2014, http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-10/is-the-world-bank-losing-asia.
