books about: situations

books about: situations

books:

Situations

The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy

David M. Smick

Portfolio Hardcover, 2008

World Economics for Dummies 101A
The world is curved is filled with easily understood facts and figures but will astound the unknowing person. We are being kept in the dark by the drive by media and this book will shed light on our faultering economy. This is a good read.

Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

Kevin Phillips

Viking Adult, 2008

Best Book Around on the Financial Crisis
There is simply nothing better for understanding the mess we are in and what we will have to address if we really hope to dig our way out of this very deep hole. Required reading for all Americans. It is surprisingly readable for the information and deeper ...

The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It

Robert J. Shiller

Princeton University Press, 2008

Financial Democracy
For Prof. R.J. Shiller, the root of the subprime mortgage crisis in the US is a myth, the belief that real estate prices must strongly trend upward for demographic reasons. He proves that the price of real estate, to the contrary, is trending lower. What went up are ...

I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.

Addison Wiggin, Kate Incontrera

Wiley, 2008

It's About Your Children's Future
If you're concerned about your children's future and you want to understand how America's debt problem will affect their ability to live in a world of opportunity and prosperity, you must read I.O.U.S.A. immediately. Inside you will travel a straight forward and very ...

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

George Soros

PublicAffairs, 2008

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
Book Review submitted by: Stephen J. Hage, SteveH9697@aol.com Books about economics and finance, for most people, are as appealing as having a root canal done without anesthesia. This is not one of those books. The subtitle: The Credit Crisis of 2008 And What it ...

Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve

William Fleckenstein, Fred Sheehan

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Brilliant study of a failed system
In this fascinating book, financial journalist William Fleckenstein studies the record of Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. Between 1937 and 1987 there were no bubbles, but Greenspan helped to create two bubbles in ten years - in ...

Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Vintage)

Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 2008

Remarkably erudite description of where the economy was, and why it is, where it is, now
Reich breaks up the US economy, since the end of World War II, into two eras: The first is the 'Not Quite Golden Age', which ended in 1975. This era was marked by a shared gains across nearly all participants and stability. The problems were built in ...

Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the ...

Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann

Harper, 2008

Dick Morris Speaks the Truth
I have been a liberal most of my life, but this book, has been very convincing, a lot of it is true, and it explains why so many Democrats in recent years have been changing their positions to Republicans. You could consider me a progressive Republican, I believe in ...

When All Hell Breaks Loose

Cody Lundin

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007

Great Place to Start in Survival Books
Perfect starter book on survival. Unlike some reviewers, I loved the cartoons. We need to maintain a sense of humor, no matter what. I think I will give copies of Cody's book to all the young people in my life. For food storage, the Mormons wrote the book. Check out ...

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Van Jones

HarperOne, 2008

The Green Collar Economy
The subtitle says it all for this highly-readable book. Van Jones' articulate prose and common-sense approach to turning our ecomonic challenges into an opportunity for a green growth boom is a must-read for anyone who wants to live and thrive prosperously on a clean ...

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

Hooman Majd

Doubleday, 2008

Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
In the preface, writer Hooman Majd is described in oxymoron as the only person in the life of this particular friend as 100 percent American and 100 percent Iranian. In quoting a Sufi poet Sanai, Majd notes: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,/there is a ...

Power to the People

Laura Ingraham

Regnery Publishing, 2008

Many Sermon Topics
The book was well written and organized in a topical way so as to make it easy to actually teach straight from it. Her writings are such that it will make a great resource for future sermon preparation. The stats, quotes, etc are priceless. The book will endure for a ...

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why

Amanda Ripley

Crown, 2008

Worth reading- good book with practical usefulness
This book is worth reading and can help people in many ways, such as to better understand behavior in emergency situations, be less judgmental of other peoples reactions in emergency situations and be better prepared if an emergency happens to you. Ripley managed to ...

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Joe Bageant

Three Rivers Press, 2008

A Must Read
This was a "must read" before this year's election and now moving forward to get our nation working together, its message is even more critical.