A banquet of consequences: the reality of our unusually uncertain economic future

“The current environment of zero-cost money, concentrated bank power, and anaemic
productive growth has coalesced not by accident or economic cycle but by wilful choice. Das
warns that without significant change, the only possible future holds dire consequences for all
but an elite few. His tone is as urgent as the problem. All central bankers, politicians, and
citizens should heed his words.”
Nomi Prins, author of Other People’s Money and All the Presidents’ Bankers

“Written with passion and insight, and laden with facts, the book provides a clear explanation
of the economic, social, and political issues that lie ahead, and the difficulty in solving
them.”
Jon Markman, Forbes columnist and president and publisher of Markman Capital Insight

A Banquet of Consequences is an intricately researched, decisively written and devastating
analysis of today’s economy. Satyajit Das connects disparate strands of a story, and in doing
so delivers a damning critique of global economic policies of the last 50 years. He argues that
governments and citizens of every political hue are now so addicted to growth and resistant to
change, that a prolonged period of chronic stagnation, sustained by large infusions of
monetary morphine and continuous interventions, or an unavoidable financial, political and
social breakdown are the only possible outcomes.