The Rainwater Prophecy

Richard Rainwater doesn’t want to sound like a kook. But he’s about as worried as a happily married guy with more than $2 billion and a home in Pebble Beach can get. Americans are “in the kind of trouble people shouldn’t find themselves in,” he says. He’s just wary about being the one to sound the alarm.

Rainwater is something of a behind-the-scenes type
…The next blowup, however, looms so large that it scares and confuses him. For the past few months he’s been holed up in hard-core research mode