A Book Review by Chuck Brackney

The primary draw for citizens of Colorado in this recent book by financial analyst Meredith Whitney is her contention that the future of financial prosperity in the United States has shifted from the coastal areas like the northeast and California to a “central corridor” of states, running from Texas northward to North Dakota, including Colorado.

Whitney, a former senior analyst with Oppenheimer & Company, is credited by a number of financial industry observers with being among the first to predict that trouble in the housing and mortgage markets would lead to problems in the wider economy. She was named by Time magazine as one the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009. (more…)