Radical Problems, Simple Solutions: How Markets Can Help Fix the Retirement Crisis and Solve Wealth Inequality

Drawing on his 35-year career in financial services public relations in New York City and on an eclectic mix of sources ranging from Milan Kundera and Burton Malkiel to Leonard Mlodinow (author of The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives) and the 1980 Bruce Beresford firm, Breaker Morant, author Mike MacMillan argues that the confluence of new technology and low cost financial products has dramatically altered the investing landscape for everyone.

Not just another recounting of the savings and retirement crisis, this book brings the subject to life in part through the eyes of a new generation of innovators working to introduce the previously disenfranchised to the benefits of stock ownership. A humorously insightful mash up of ideas, and at times laugh out loud funny, it offers a roadmap for employing free market solutions to help solve the challenge of wealth inequality.

MacMillan has found a revolution hiding in plain sight.

Mike MacMillan is a highly successful public relations entrepreneur and freelance writer with a career-long focus on the financial services industry. He built and ran an award-winning New York City-based financial services public relations firm for 22 years, providing counsel to more than 30 mutual fund companies with assets under management ranging from $2 billion to in excess of $500 billion. Since selling that business he has embarked on a second career as a freelance writer. In that role he has authored stories on a range of companies, people, and subjects including a profile of Mandy Cohen, current head of the Center for Disease Control, and Dale Folwell, Secretary of the Treasury for the State of North Carolina and a current candidate for governor. In addition to his writing, MacMillan has served as an adjunct professor at University of North Carolina's Hussman School.