A former investment banker for Goldman Sachs and Visiting Scholar at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, John R. Talbott is the author of several books on economics and politics, including the prophetic The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, penned in 2003. Talbott has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the Boston Globe, and he has appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox, CNBC, and CBS.