Book Review: Boomerang – Travels in the New Third World
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
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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