Bear Trap
Here’s some breathless reporting about an anonymously authored book. Its an interesting discussion of a senior manager director...
Rules for Living from Nassim Taleb
The Author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan has some suggestions for you: Taleb’s top life tips 1. Scepticism is...
Book Review: Age of Turbulence
I would NEVER buy Greenspan’s book. I think he is responsible for so many of the recent financial woes — inflation & $145...
Bailout Nation: Treasury, SEC on Bailouts
I did three segments Tuesday on Yahoo Tech Ticker at the Nasdaq: Here is the last, on Bailouts, Fannie & Freddie: Click for...
Book Review: Confessions of a Subprime Lender
Interesting looking book flagged by the WSJ, called Confessions of a Subprime Lender. The story is told by Richard Bitner, who founded...
Deception and Abuse at the Fed
Bloomberg’s Caroline Baum reviews the book Deception and Abuse at the Fed: "Until the U.S. Federal Reserve took the...
Subprime Mortgages: America’s Latest Boom and Bust
Last year, Edward Gramlich published an economic takedown of the mortgage industry, titled Subprime Mortgages: America’s Latest...
Greenspan Quote of the Day
In Barbara Walters new memoir "Audition – A Memoir,” she discusses dating Alan Greenspan. We also learn that...
Book Review: The Bush Boom
I nearly fell off my seat laughing when I saw this review at Amazon: > The Bush Boom 53 of 67 people found the following review...
Real Price of Everything
Over the weekend, I was browsing in the Huntington Book Revue. I stumbled across a book that Michael Lewis had edited, called The Real...