Category: economy-and-finance
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The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina takes the readers on a bleak and almost dystopian view of life out in the deep ocean. With almost four years of hands-on experience traveling to countries to report on the myriad of topics and stories for the book, it’s a sobering and also horrifying experience to really learn…
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All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera goes into great detail on how the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 came to be. It was either this book or “Too Big to Fail” by Andrew Sorkin. I chose the former because it’s supposed to go…
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age by Stephen Platt goes over one of China’s most embarrassing moment in its imperial history that still plays a role today in how modern China behaves. The Opium War fascinates me so much because I’ve seen it play a role is so…
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Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster’s Inevitable Bust by Alan Payne talks about one of the biggest corporate collapse in American history. After having read the book, I honestly don’t think the author could have come up with a better title for the book. While Enron was caught doing financial magic tricks to…
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Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order by Saleha Mohsin talks about a critical topic concerning both today and the future in regard to the world’s most used currency, the United States dollar. Over the decades, the dollar has been slowly used to transform both the economic landscape around the…
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson is an incredibly insightful book on just why is it that some nations are prosperous while many others are not. The authors go to explain how and why many explanations conjured up by economists regarding this topic get it wrong.…
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The Chinese Phantom: The Hunt for the World’s Most Dangerous Arms Dealer by a group of four German journalists aims to unveil to the world one of the planet’s most wanted criminals. With almost a $5 million bounty on the successful information leading to his whereabouts and capture, one would think that someone of that…
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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears by Farah Stockman follows the lives of three steel plant workers at the Rexnord factory in Indianapolis and how it affected them when the plant moved production to Mexico and shut down around 2017. After having just completed The Lords of Easy Money, I was fascinated…
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard goes in-depth about how one of the America’s central bank, with once having limited powers, has slowly over the decades extended their reach via monetary policies to affect pretty much everyone in the country for better or worst. It’s…
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The Big Fail by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera talks about how the United States government, along with the other big agencies there, are supposed to be best equipped to deal with a pandemic such as when Covid-19 struck, which generally failed the American public. It is truly fascinating to have experienced and survived my…
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