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Book Review: The Rent is Too Damn High by Matt Yglesias

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Tweet Generally, our living situation plays a very large role in life. Location, rent, transportation, and probably most important, with whom we share our space with are all personal factors that drive our housing decisions and circumstances.  Yet, along with the personal factors above that play a part, there is also a broad swath of [...]

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Review: Confidence Men by Ron Suskind

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Tweet Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind’s most recent work, Confidence Men, tears down the walls of the White House to readers to give an inside glimpse of President Obama’s handling of the domestic and economic policies in the first years of his term. The book paints a picture of an inexperienced President encountering an economic [...]

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Book Review: Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Tweet Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed may very well be the best book I have or will read this year. That seemed to be the reaction of most critics since the book’s publication last year. The book debuted during the midst of the 2008 Financial tsunami that threatened [...]

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Review: The Case Against the Fed by Murray Rothbard

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Tweet This review was orginally written by me on January 2nd, 2009 for another website.  I’ve decided to repost it since the next review will deal heavily with the Federal Reserve and Banking as I plan to finish and review Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Hardcover) shortly. This is another enlightening [...]

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