'In his short book Debtonator, [McNally] contends that the advantage of debt over equity conferred by most tax systems (that offer tax relief on debt interest), as a result favouring corporate financiers, is not only hugely destabilising but another of the sources of wealth inequality seemingly hard-wired into our financial system... So by incentivising debt over equity have we turned ... Read moredebt into not just a symptom of our system but one of its shaping forces? Indeed we have.'
Merryn Somerset Webb, Financial Times; 'A brilliant analysis of current financial and social failures - why we must change the system before it's too late.'
Chris Gibson-Smith, Chairman of the London Stock Exchange. 'McNally advances a compelling argument for long lasting wealth creation through the use of equity as compared to the essentially nihilistic nature of debt. He uses some wonderful illustrations of how debt has got totally out of hand. I particularly liked his point that if you laid all of the world's debt in dollar bills from end to end it would stretch from Earth to Mars and back 50 times!'
RealBusiness.co.uk 'Andrew McNally has produced a readable and admirably short book arguing in favour of a much greater use of the other sort of funding - equity. Debtonator: How Debt Favours the Few and Equity Can Work For All of Us goes beyond simply recommending lower leverage because it makes a financial system more robust. He believes that wider use of equity is a path to greater prosperity for the many, not just the few.'
Simon Taylor, University Lecturer in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School; 'In this short book, the author pulls no punches about the level and consequences of the ever growing debt- mountain' - The Chartist Show Less