Customer Review: THE PREDATOR STATE
Understanding the financial happenings is so important. We certainly didn't learn any of this in school; highschool anyway. I heard Kenneth Galbraith interviewed on KCET and placed my order, getting 2 gifts and reading one myself.
Customer Review: I wouldn't know whether this book is good or not. The reader seemed adequate, if not terrific. But, 3 of the first 5 discs had flaws and skipped and sputtered and made whole sections incomprehensible. We had a car trip ruined.
Customer Review: The tile says it all. This is a very good starting point for those looking to learn how to evaluate securities. I had my wife read it to give her a foundation from which to understand security analysis. We can now discus equities and their relative value and I really enjoy having a sounding board.... more info
Customer Review: This book is filled with great information you will find useful as well as having to find new things you never knew about. I will recommend this book to anyone and everyone.
Customer Review: Just finished the book and have to say the author's stories seemed very contrived. While many historical facts are presented like the Iraq War or the Control of Panama Canal, the author's stories of meeting "local people" seem made up and don't provide any useful evidence to the reader beyond... more info
Customer Review: Kindleberger who passed away before the current financial crisis wrote the best book I have read on financial crises. His analysis of boom and bust cycle is prescient. It is much superior to Morris' still excellent The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash... more info
Customer Review: If, as Robert J. Samuelson asserts, the "Great Inflation" has largely been forgotten, then this book renders an important service. It is hard for someone who lived through the years and events recounted here to believe that they have been forgotten, but perhaps it's so. Samuelson's book is generally... more info
Customer Review: This book by F.A. Hayek is eye-opening and terrifying in this age of Obama and Socialism (which is a code word for Marxism and Communism). In the book, you learn of the reasons for the failure of socialism and why it always fails and always will fail.
Customer Review: This book's subject matter is good. The problem-it reads like a bad research paper. It's so boring!!!!! If you're interested in stats on every page, have at it. Otherwise, check it out at the library and skim the main points.
Customer Review: As a person outside of the financial industry, I found the book to reveal an interesting glimpse into the history of the most venerated firm in Wall Street, from its humble inception to the present days. Along the way, you find glimpses of strong personalities that shine through the anonymity of... more info
