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10 August 2010 08:01
Inside the dark world of a journalist
Graham Linscott reviews "Someone Shot the Cook".
If the title suggests a combination of the chaotic and the bizarre, that is what is intended. The line comes from the apology of the maitre d' in a Beirut restaurant for the quality of the fare that day. The quirkiness runs through the entire book.
Phillip Moore has put together an unusual and highly entertaining collage of his varied experiences as a foreign correspondent over several decades. There is the hell of Beirut during civil war, people diving to the floor in the bar of the Commodore Hotel as the resident parrot very convincingly imitates incoming shells.
16 March 2010 13:37
The big short: Inside the subprime crisis
Michael Lewis author of David Shapiro's favourite book has released another book.
Henry Paulson didn't see it coming. Nor did Timothy Geithner foresee the meltdown of the financial markets. According to Standard & Poor's President Deven Sharma, testifying before Congress in the fall of 2008: "Virtually no one - be they homeowners, financial institutions, ratings agencies, regulators, or investors - anticipated what is occurring."
Why? Perhaps "it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them - to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch", says Michael Lewis, author of numerous best-sellers including 1980s Wall Street memoir
10 January 2010 21:32
Best books for investors to read in 2010
Some savvy and well read professional investors and academics make a few recommendations.
BOSTON (Reuters) - The credit crisis is just over a year old and already there are dozens of books on the market to explain its causes or cure its ills.
Most are not worth the time it takes to read them, according to a handful of money managers and market strategists who agreed to take part in an informal survey. The books either contain too few insights, they go over old ground, or they just get it wrong. -- "Too many of the books about the crisis are fluffy," said Yale professor and economist Robert Shiller, who was among the most vocal sages predicting the real estate bust. Of all the books he read last year, only a few were sufficiently serious. One ...
11 January 2010 00:25
Book urges couples to "Get Financially Naked"
How to talk money with your honey.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you're willing to undress in front of someone in a relationship, you should be able to undress financially as well, say the authors of a new book.
Money can be one of the most difficult subjects for couples to talk about, and "Get Financially Naked" aims to help them share not only details of their finances but also their thoughts, attitudes and fears about money. "People feel this intense feeling of shame around money," said co-author Manisha Thakor, stemming from people feeling judged by how much they earn, how much they know about finances and how they handle their money. The steep reces...
17 December 2009 23:39
What’s on your reading list?
A list of six must-reads.
If anyone needed a reminder that Christmas and NewYear holidays are almost here, Societe Generale has provided it. Analyst Dylan Grice has picked up the mantle of the departed James Montier to offer a seasonal reading list for those with a fixation about investment and economics.
True, some people might prefer to immerse themselves in a rollicking sea tale from Patrick O’Brian or a good old Sookie Stackhouse vampire mystery. But we know that Reuters blogs’ readers are a discriminating lot with a keen understanding of and ...
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