I might be wrong, but this article from the latest NLR does not appear 
to be behind a paywall.

http://newleftreview.org/II/77/richard-duncan-a-new-global-depression

Richard Duncan
A NEW GLOBAL DEPRESSION?
Interview

You were one of the very few analysts to predict the full enormity of 
the financial crisis, writing as early as 2003 of a coming credit crunch 
that would have ramifications throughout the asset-backed securities 
sector, necessitating giant bail-outs for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and 
financial-insurance companies, and a possible meltdown in the 
multi-trillion-dollar derivatives market. This prescience was in stark 
contrast to the complacency of most mainstream economists. Could you 
describe how you came to write The Dollar Crisis—what was the course of 
your intellectual development and what did you learn from your 
experience as a Far East securities analyst?

I grew up in Kentucky and went to Vanderbilt University. My plan was to 
go to law school, but I didn’t get in. Plan B was to go to France for a 
year, picking grapes. I got a job as a chauffeur in Paris, driving rich 
Americans, and made enough money to backpack around the world for a 
year, in 1983 and 84. So I was lucky enough to see the world when I was 
very young. I spent a couple of months in Thailand, Malaysia and 
Singapore—and even a couple of months there was long enough to realize: 
go east, young man.

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