
Book Review: Money and Power – How Goldman Sachs Came To Rule The World
The book cover – featuring a view of planet Earth presumably from a heavenly vantage point – offers the first hint that William D. Cohan’s
The book cover – featuring a view of planet Earth presumably from a heavenly vantage point – offers the first hint that William D. Cohan’s
Back in College, in social science classes, we learned never to rely on cultural explanations. Professors excised culturally deterministic phrases from our analysis: “The Spanish
In one obvious respect, The Big Short follows Michael Lewis’s winning formula for a blockbuster book on sports or finance: character sketches so compelling, funny,
You may, like me, be curious about what happened during the Great Credit Crunch. You may, like me, have the feeling we reached a financial
Since the beginning of the Great Recession, JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon has played the role of the United States’ Alpha Banker: snatching Bear Stearns’ franchise
Simply the best. In the short list of the best books about Wall Street, Liar’s Poker needs to be on top. Can you remember the
I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civil society. For reals. It’s also really fun for me.
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