Category: economy-and-finance
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond is a 2017 Pulitzer winner in the General Non-Fiction category, covering the problem of home eviction and homelessness within Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Although the author chooses to only cover eight or so people within this one city, his higher purpose is to generally highlight how…
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The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind digs into one of the most infamous and largest corporate business scandals in America’s history. This was such a wild ride. Everything from corporate greed, mismanagement, cowardice, rivalry, a toxic work culture, and a need to constantly prove profitability to the public led…
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins goes over, well, the confessions of a hit man. However, not the hit man that most are likely to envision first when they hear of that term. Yes, a hit man has a goal of taking out a selected target, usually via stealth with James Bond…
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