This should be required reading for every politician in the world and everyone who ever plans to vote. Lanchester is absolutely right that the world of finance is too much of a mystery to almost everyone. This is a remarkably accessible guide to that world, the people who live in it, and its mystifying laws [...]
Simply put, the annual Economic Report of the President (ERP) should be required reading for every U.S. citizen, every year. The ERP provides a wealth of information and data about the nation’s economic activity. This type of information is perhaps no more critical than in times of economic downturn. Want to know more about employment [...]
I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this groundbreaking, new, investment book from two of most respected marketwatchers around today! Princeton economics professor, Burton G. Malkiel, and influential non-profit chairman, Charles D. Ellis, have put their brains together to come up with one of the most surefire investment strategies out there. [...]
When I first came across the first edition of this book in my local library in 1959, I was a teenager.Back in those days there were only a handful of books about the stock market.And I’ve read all of them during my junior high and high school years.This latest updated 623-page paperback (the index alone [...]
Niall Ferguson has written an easily accessible and very entertaining history of finance, ranging from the clay tokens of Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago to the hedge funds of today.The title of this book has apparently been modelled on Jacob Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man,”and like that book it will be made into a television series.Being [...]
