In his most recent book, La fortuna  non esiste, Mario Calabresi describes the way ordinary people have managed to recover from financial disaster in 36 American states. It is a matter of moral strength and chance does not come into it.

The son of a Milan police commissioner murdered by leftist terrorists in 1972, Calabresi has worked in Italy and abroad for ANSA, La Repubblica and La Stampa. He became editor in chief of Turin daily La Stampa in April 2009.

Calabresi discussed the two-year experience in the US during the last presidential campaign: the statistical and sociological data he gathered, as well as the personal stories of people struck hard by the crisis, on which his book was built upon, giving a new perspective also on the political relevance of Michelle Obama strong personality, and explaining how his journalist investigation allowed him to identify in Miami the early symptoms of the forthcoming US real-estate market earthquake.