I began with so much sympathy for the ideas in The Price of Inequality, by Nobel-Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, so why did I grudge-read the book the whole way through? I concur about the causes and problems of persistent and rising inequality in the United States, and I suspect Stiglitz and I would vote

Would you like to understand where Mitt Romney’s economic ideas come from? As soon as Edward Conard hit the book-selling circuit with Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong, I started to get messages from my reliably liberal friends.  Conard made the cover of The New York Times Magazine, –

I never intend Bankers Anonymous as a “How to invest” site,[1] but B$A readers may safely approach The Intelligent Investor as a “How Not to Invest,” a more profitable set of rules in the long run, in my opinion.  I prefer The Intelligent Investor to any modern investment book I’ve ever read, and I recommend it as

Most of the books I review on Bankers Anonymous purport to give insight, for the non-financier, into how Wall Street works, a main theme for this site.  This book review, however, aims to give Wall Streeters insight into the life of the woman who cleans your house. Barbara Ehrenreich engaged in stunt journalism in order