Satyajit Das, a former banker, is the author of "Traders, Guns & Money," "Extreme Money" and "A Banquet of Consequences: Reloaded."
A confluence of factors may presage a crisis on a scale not seen since the 1930s


"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" -- Rudiger Dornbusch. © Reuters
Satyajit Das, a former banker, is the author of "Traders, Guns & Money," "Extreme Money" and "A Banquet of Consequences: Reloaded."