Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Raveendra N. Batra (born 27 June 1943) is a U.S. economist, best-selling author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his book The Great Depression of 1990 in which he predicted a sharp rise in the US stock market in the 1980s, followed by a cataclysmic drop and a depression in or around 1990. Batra''s main thesis, also in his recent work, is that Financial capitalism, which breeds excessive inequality and political corruption, inevitably succumbs to financial crisis and economic depression. The solution is a social system envisoned by his spiritual mentor P.R. Sarkar.