xmas present (4.0)

I have heard Dave Ramsey on the radio and thought this would be a perfect present for my sister. His no nonsense approach is what she needs. Hope this helps her, but now she has to read it.

Total Money Makeover (5.0)

I highly recommend this book to anyone having issues with money - credit card debt. It is a great book and easy to read and understand. I have gotten organized since reading and am starting on the steps outlined in the book. I feel so much better knowing that I am on the road to being debt-free.

I love Dave Ramsey! (5.0)

I have heard people refer to Dave Ramsey's program over the years but this is the first book I have ever read of his. What he says makes perfect sense and is an easy to follow plan for the most part. He also has a nightly show on Fox Business and I am hooked. His show consists of callers with real-life financial problems and also callers who call in with their success stories. The book also has many success stories which truly give me hope that if I get on and stay on the right financial track and follow Dave's plan I can be completely debt free including a house with no mortgage one day too! For the cost of the book, I say go for it!

Family use (5.0)

Who doesn't like Dave Ramsey. My whole family loves it, and a daughter got her office into it, also. Dave can only help people with his common sense approaches to financial success.

Fantastic book! (5.0)

This book is a must buy for every person who has any debt whatsoever. It's not only informative but it's funny as well. I encourage everyone to buy this book and stick to the baby steps listed and you will be out of debt before you know it.

A Value Investing Classic (4.0)

Two of the core types of investing are value and growth investing. Value investing looks to find commodities at a price lower than their value while growth investing looks to find commodities with the potential to become larger. If you're interested in learning about value investing, this is definitely a book to check out.

Originally published in 1949, the Intelligent Investor helped paved the way for value investors like Warren Buffet, who writes a preface for this revised edition. Even though II was created over 60 years ago, it's core concepts are still useful and true today.

The biggest negative about this book is that it's relatively old. It was revised by Graham as recently as 1973 and includes updates by Jason Zweig but the majority of the content in the book was written over 40 years ago. Another downside is that it can be kind of grueling to read. That often comes with this subject matter but readability would help. At any rate, despite these shortcomings, the Intelligent Investor is a core book to learn about value investing.

Timeless investing wisdom from Buffett's mentor (5.0)

Warren Buffett always refers to chapters 8 and 20 on market volatility and margin of safety, so I read those with extra attention, but Benjamin Graham had a confidence of purpose and clarity of explanation that makes it easy to see why he developed such a (mostly posthumous) dedicated following. Investors (The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville for one famous example) who follow the philosophies that Graham touts in this book have become consistently successful. Classic.

A must have for a value investor (4.0)

Deep dyve into investing, but clear and easy to follow. Shows a clear and logic way to approach investing in public companies that also can be used to invest in private companies

Want to be Warren Buffett? (5.0)

A great introduction and education in investing. It doesn't guarantee to make you rich, but by reading it you should avoid becoming poorer. I have read other books and it probably should still be considered the bible of investing.

Still a good book but needs more (4.0)

This book is very fundamental to the concept of investing but should be used together with books from real traders and portfolio managers. The works of Linda Raschke and Toby Crabel are the finest in terms of learning to trade and make money. If you fan find these on Amazon or Ebay - go for it, even that they may be out of print. The author of this book is academician and the book reads as such. Some people swear by it as classic, i think it is useless used by itself. You need to back it up with the insight of others professional investors. Happy reading.

excellent read (5.0)

This was given as a gift to someone who loves history and the financial world! Great read!!!

Complex Subject Made Easy (5.0)

Mr. Ferguson has undertaken to tackle some pretty weighty subjects and yet made them thoroughly interesting and easy to understand. He is a joy to read as his writing is clear, precise and informative - all at same time. I recommend him to one and all!

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (5.0)

I found this book fascinating, and can only recommend it to anybody who wants to understand how today's financial system came about. It shows in an easy-to-understand way the roots and causes of current and past financial/economic problems and bubbles.

Chimera's Descent (3.0)

Professor Ferguson has written a thoughtful book, guiding the general public through the history of the financial world. The most interesting part is the first half where he takes us through the development of the financial instruments, such as currency, bonds, stocks, and corporations which are so common place today. We meet the entrepreneurs of the middle ages and colonial times, who developed the mechanisms to finance the exploration of the world, enabling the establishment of new industries in the Americas and Asia. Equally important is how these events of centuries ago established London as a financial nexus and the British empire as the greatest in the world. The story is not all good, these days were rife with gun-boat diplomacy, brutal colonialization, slavery, and narco-economics.

In the second part of the The Ascent of Money, Ferguson shifts gears into the modern era. He trods a lot of worn-out ground as he moves into the LTCM bail-out, George Soros' battles with central banks, the US S&L restructuring, micro-finance, the stock market collapses of the 20th and 21st centuries, and fiascos of the investment banks leading to the demise of Barings and others. His analysis of the LTCM is important as he shows their fundamental flaw in not considering enough financial history to really calculate the risks inherent in their leveraged positions. Ferguson wrote this in April 2008 so he does not have the history of the recent finacial debacle to consider but he is prescient in seeing things were already rotten.

The final section deals with his concerns about the current relationship between the US and the PRC. Clearly the trend of Chinese savers loaning massive sums to US consumers, property owners, and governments is not healthy. Unfortunately the situation is only getting worse as the US government embarks on new stimulus programs, funded by the Chinese. Ferguson suggests that we are entering a deflationary bubble (similar to the Japanese experience of the 1990's) that could continue for another decade.

The title says it all (4.0)

Another tour de force of world history, this time focusing on financial history, a topic that everyone who has been hit in some way by the current recession should be looking into. Once again going against the grain, Ferguson argues that money and the subsequent institutions and promissory notes that have been used to save or create more money are the keys to national wealth and expansion, not their destruction. In fact, whenever he traces the rise and fall of vast fortunes throughout history, it only serves to add to his argument that constantly evolving financial markets pave the roads towards progress. His narrative on chapter two about the French bond market bubble in the early 18th century is a good example of this. However, where Ferguson stumbles, in my opinion, is in his lack of explanation regarding basic economic terms and principles. He knows what he's subject and I got most of what he was saying, but there were times I was left scratching my head trying to figure out what he was talking about. If you don't know anything about business or economics, I recommend borrowing a basic econ. textbook or a dictionary on business and econ. terms. In conclusion, this is a wonderful book on the financial history of the world and very pertinent for our times.

Should be 80 Pages (2.0)

The author clearly loves to hear himself talk because he's filled up this book with a great many unnecessary pages and stories that just feel misplaced. There are a couple of meaningful chapters, but very few (15-17). It's also annoying that throughout he ties everything to luck. Overall, a disappointing read.

Painfully Self Serving, Narcissitic Pseudo Intellectualism (1.0)

I won't dignify this idiotic book with a thorough review. Read a total of 100 pages, and I'm exhausted. If you like hearing others pontificate on why they're smarter than you, this is a real treat. I can't add anything to what others who have rated this book likewise have already said.

On Average a 4, But the Best Insights are a 7/5 (5.0)

Before the banking crisis and stock market meltdown, the author came close to supporting the extreme view of quality guru Dr. Deming, that the most important things are "unknown and unknowable". Instead, he says that we average humans, the learned class and even the PhD quants on Wall Street, really have no good way of estimating, describing or evaluating extreme events that do not fit within the 95% limit of the typical bell curve. The biggest impact comes through breakthroughs, catastrophes or non sequitors. Paradigm shifts, quantum leaps, disasters, perfect storms, revolutions and crowd behavior can be studied, described and analyzed, but they cannot be predicted quantitatively or qualitatively. Their impact is even more difficult to predict, especially in the short-run. Hence, we should not be fooled into thinking that portfolio theory and hedges can eliminate most risk. It remains intrinsic. The author advises that individuals and investors should look for the unusual or outlier risks which can be identified and hedge against them as possible and preserve resources to invest in opportunities when game changing events do occur. This is an eye-opening book, which every investor, inventor, politician and entrepreneur should read.

Don't mistake middlebrow for Mandelbrot (4.0)

The prologue is a punch in the nose:: straight to the point. The rest of the book, despite its assertiveness, falls back to a more leisure pace. There is a lot of biographical reference and I agree with the reviewer that wrote that the author thinks very highly of himself.

The thesis is a controversial one:: In search of understanding on the workings of the world, scholars and curious people alike should screen out common occurrences and focus on outliers or "Black Swans".

The "Black Swans" as defined by the author are episodes that have the following three characteristics:

1 - Are rare
2 - Have tremendous impact
3 - Seem retrospectively predictable

This is especially true for phenomena that do not behave nicely according to the normal or Gaussian distribution - the bell curve. The author wittily calls this un-Gaussian world "Extremistan" the land tyrannized by the accidental. "Mediocristan" on the other hand is tyrannized by the ordinary. Apparently in this Taleb world democracy has not been invented. What can save your day is that the book shows you how to tell what phenomenon belongs to which country.

Taleb's book itself can be considered a Black Swan. Of course there is plenty of opposition::

1 - The excellent Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, states that the fates of civilizations are utterly predictable and due to geographical alignment of land masses and original stock of plants and animals;

2 - The weak (please this is NOT a recommendation) The Next 100 Years by George Friedman, is a rebirth of geopolitics and tries to predict the outcome of the 21st century. If Black Swans are what matters and if they are unpredictable The Next 100 Years is an exercise in futility. I believe the book is indeed futile but not because of Black Swans.

So what you can learn from the Black Swan is that you should not focus on facts but on the framework that allowed the facts to happen. This is why the author says you will understand more about the world by NOT reading the paper. Almost half a century earlier the beloved couple Will and Ariel Durant already knew about that when they summarized the ten volumes of their "The History of Civilization" in one hundred pages of "The Lessons of History", one of my all time favourites (yes this is a recommendation) - "most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice".

Afterthoughts::
1 - Taleb was raised in Lebanon and speaks French. The bibliographical reference includes a good number of entries from the great French school of mathematics which certainly helped to enrich the book.
2 - The book was published in 2007, the year the subprime crisis exploded. The book says nothing about the crisis. Was it really a Black Swan?
3 - Book sales may be from extremistan but book length is from mediocristan. Once upon a time we used to have Moby Dicks, War and Peaces but also Candides and The Princes. Nowadays a one-hundred-page book is pretty much unsaleable. Skinny books are constantly force fed like geese to produce foie gras. This is where all the Yevgenia, Nero and Il Deserto dei Tartari nonsense comes from. But remember:: paper was once tree - let's save the world.

Leonardo Alves - Brazil - 2010

a great bool (5.0)

absolutely one of the best books abouts risks and risk management ever written. A must for anyone who truly wants to know what is going on in the economy

Did not cover parts of the story that I wanted to know (2.0)

The book is aptly titled, as it is about the four men who controled the major banking systems of the world. However, from the reviews, I had expected more. I expected to gain a better understanding of the causes of the depression and how it either ran its course or was reversed by actions informed by policies. I just didn't get that second part from this book.

Here is what I got from the book: these four men did the best they could. It was not clear to them what could be done, and of course they were bound by the interests of their countries and of the banking system. The payment of reparations from World War I was a big issue (O.k., I need to learn more about this -- Germany started the war, then lost, but was unable to pay. But why did the Germans feel so wronged by being asked to pay?) Keynes came along and said and wrote a lot of things that were not terribly clear at the time, and may not be terribly clear now. Hoover and Roosevelt both probably got a lot right and a lot wrong. Most of the world went off of the gold standard, devalued their currency, and the book ends, presumbaly becasue the banking system is saved.

So, I probably expected more of the book than the author intended to cover. Here are some of the things I wanted to know. First, "Devaluing currency" sounds like inflation to me. Didn't devaluation reduce the value of the savings of the hardworking people who had done the right thing and saved? Second, to me the depression was not just about the banks. What did it take for jobs to come back and the standard of living to rise? The U.S. put people to work when we started supporting England's effort in WWII, then continued to ramp up production during and after the war. Was it the war that got us out of the depression (to the extent that a depression is defined by people not being able to find jobs, or not getting paid enough to support themselves)? If so, can we just periodically gather up a bunch of our stuff and burn it, as the Native Americans did in their Potlatch ceremonies, instead of having wars and getting so many people killed and maimed? Third, did the whole depression occur due to a failure of the banking system, and if so, is there anything we can do to keep this from happening withoug causing some other problem? The author addresses this quesion to some extent in his comment posted above.

I have read that Lords of Finance helps inform the current financial problems. What I take from the curent problem is that no one is willing to act while the bubble is growing. In this phase the speculators want the bubble to continue, the followers jump on so they won't lose out, and finally the prudent jump on because they see that they are losing real value. No wonder people don't want to work and save.

Another good business book (4.0)

This book is pretty good, but the best business book of the decade is Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle (John Rolfe, Peter Troob). It's an awesome, quick read and given that it was written almost a decade ago, but is amazingly prescient about just what a useless, self-serving job investment banking is, and how bankers add very little value to the world. The authors just released a new edition, with an afterword focused on the financial crisis. You can read it in one or two sittings, and its a real side splitter.

must reading for all those in finance (5.0)

I;M NOT A GREAT BOOK READER, BUT THIS HAS BEEN A REAL PAGE TURNER FOR ME. I LOVE IT!!!!

Disappointed (3.0)

Reading it last night, I found out that two pages had been torn out. I hope ther are not more further on.

An unlikely page-turner (5.0)

This is an incredibly well-written book. I never thought it could be possible to write a history book with heavy emphasis on world economics and make it read like a suspense novel. Nevertheless, Liaquat Ahamed does exactly that. Starting in 1914 and ending in 1933 (with Epilogue covering 1934 all the way into 1950s), this book is a fascinating account of the European and American world desperately struggling to get up on its feet after the Great War and failing miserably.

Economics and finances aren't exactly the liveliest subjects but Ahamed succeeds to make them interesting with analogies and anecdotes and by frequent infusion of political and historical perspectives, thus never bogging down in the dryland of numbers and statistics. However, what truly makes this book shine is is constant emphasis on the personalities of 4 main protagonists, central bankers of US, England, France and Germany. The four bankers that "broke the world" are shown with all their strengths and weaknesses, bringing them to life.

Dated Dated Dated (1.0)

For the 3rd time, I've tried to read this book. I can't. It's unreadable. Outdated, trite, and doesn't speak to me, here in the 21st century. Burn all your income bridges to reach a goal? How does that work in a recession? NOT.

Thank God, it took only 8 years. (5.0)

It took me 8 years to get the secret Napoleon Hill was talking about. I had purchased the book in 2003 and had been reading and rereading with curiosity about the secret. But curiosity didn't help me.

As Napoleon says you will get the secret only when you are ready for it. Thanks to the jolt life gave to me recently, I became ready for it unknowingly. And I had the AHA moment. I saw a brilliant change happenning within 12 hours. I had been trying for this change for 2 years.

Please keep reading the book. It has the magic recipe. But this recipe is too simple to grab your attention. But when you will be ready for it, this recipe would steal your heart.

Now I look at those 8 years and feel grateful that I didn't take more time to understand the book.

Wonderful (4.0)

Love this book !!!! It was written in like 1939. Must be like the first help book ever. He has some very good ideas n here and he gets me pumped up just by reading the book. On fire to take actions. I have a strange story. I play Texas holdem and had a bankroll that pretty much stayed around $800 online. When I first became ON FIRE and started the 6 steps within 2 weeks my bankroll was up to $4700. I had made almost $4000 in 2 weeks!! I will continue to read my 6 steps (desire statement) because I am becoming a believer.

Think and Grow Rich (5.0)

The book came in a very good condition, aand surprisely before time expected.
Thank you, I righly recommended this seller

Cheap printing job (3.0)

I have had other copies of this book. In the few chapters I've read so far, I've found several occasions where letters have been left off words. So it was obviously a rush job by someone without proper proofreading.

The message is unique, little weird in spots, but one of the great classics and relevant even though written years ago.

Worth reading (3.0)

This book does highlight the problems that our elected officals and we have been ignoring - that are deficit spending is at an unsustainable pace and our refusal to deal with the problem will lead to a severe economic shock before some sort of recalibration. I agree that stocks are quite risky and will be for some time.

That said, the authors don't do so well when they make specific, especially microeconomic predictions that don't make sense - i.e. oil at $20 / barrel but gasoline at $13/ gallon. That China will be worse off than the US after the crash. That we will have a single world currency (don't count on that one anytime soon).

Not a bad book but do take some of the specific predictions with a grain of salt.

Interesting Subject Weak Analysis (2.0)

I saw one of the authors on CNBC and decided to buy their book. In Aftershock we learn that within the next three years the feds monetary and the treasury's fiscal polices will lead to a US bond default and hyper-inflation. Their argument is not very convincing, but they foretold of the current economic crisis in their previous book, (at least this is what they claim) which gives them some level of creditability. They recommend not owning stocks and investing in foreign bonds, gold, and LEAPS (LEAPS are financial instruments that shorts the market) prior to the US bond default. Throughout the book they references their website [...], which are just excerpts from their book and the subject of their next book, "preparing for the post-dollar-bubble world". The book is a quick read, but I wouldn't recommend it.

"Don't Worry, Not a Single Penny of your Tax Dollars Will Fund the Bailouts." (5.0)

"That's right. The bank and corporate bailout money is not coming from our taxes. Instead we're just borrowing it from foreign investors. We're also printing some of it...Of course, we will never, ever have to pay it all back, because even if we tried (and we won't), we never could." That is why the U.S. Government will eventually be unable to borrow money and the nation will have to start living within it's means. That will be the beginning of the brave new world of life in America. This book is how we are speeding toward this "Bubblequake" and its "Aftershock." Although somewhat depressing (like all bad news is), this book also tells people what they can do to survive this worldwide depression and how to actually be able to make money during the painful readjustment of the world's economies. While this is a scary book because of what is happening all around us, it is also a hopeful book. The nation will survive after the country stops ignoring the basic laws of economics. The three authors are optimistic (maybe overly so) that the American people will be able to make the adjustments needed to achieve economic survival without having to become survivalists who have to grow their own food and defend their homes from roving mobs with guns. They feel that even dictators will be unable rise from the chaos because Americans will be changing its government officials as soon as it's obvious their policies don't work. There will be frequent changes in elected officials.
The nation will survive because basically the country is wealthy and will still be so after the economic bubbles have all popped and forced everyone and their government to live within their means.
These authors "are not bulls or bears or gold bugs, stock boosters or detractors, currency pushers, or doom-and-gloom crusaders," and "have no particular political ideology to endorse, and no dogmatic future to promote."
The goal of this book is "to tell you more details about the next round of bubbles to fall while there's still time to protect your assets and position yourself to survive and thrive in this dangerous, yet potentially highly profitable new environment...Although much of what we predicted in our first book that hasn't happened yet because most of the impact of the multi-bubble collapse is still to come. This is good news because it means you still have time to get prepared."
It's impossible to do justice to this book's message in a short review. The review copy I worked from is now practically destroyed by so many dog-eared pages and underline and highlighted passages. The three authors share a theory of the economy having being boosted by six economic co-linked bubbles. They are: The real estate bubble, the stock market bubble, the private debt bubble, the discretionary spending bubble, the dollar bubble and the government debt bubble. Four of those bubbles have already burst or are still in the process of collapsing. With the collapse of each bubble it puts more pressure on the remaining bubbles, and the two most important bubbles are in dire danger. The dollar bubble and government debt bubble collapses will change the face of America and the world. America will be bankrupt.
In their first book, "America's Bubble Economy" the authors accurately predicted the economic chaos of 2008 and 2009. This book picks up developments in 2010 and the following years and predicts the next economic bubbles that will pop. In the coming much worst economy, the book shows readers the best ways to protect, their jobs, businesses and assets. It explains how the housing crisis isn't "a sub prime mortgage problem whose contagion spread to other mortgages; it is a `housing price collapse.'" The number of home owners with mortgages that are underwater has risen from 14.3% in Q3 2008 to 33% in Q2 of 2009." Since 70% of the American Economy is based on consumer spending, the bubbles that have already popped or are still in the process of deflating won't be able to re-inflate. When the dollar loses it's value and the government can no longer pay its loans, and therefore won't be able to get any credit. America's golden age will be over.
Inflation, resorted to by the desperate government, will rack the nation bankrupting most businesses. "40 to 60%" unemployment may become the norm. There will be so many people seeking jobs that wages will tank. Everyone will be on Medicaid, not Medicare, and all the unemployed will be on welfare. The rich will have left the USA or be broke and all the government's taxes will come from the working people--the middle class. Since as much income as possible will be hidden, there will be national sales taxes and Value Added Taxes on every product or service. Family members will return home to live together with their extended families in order to control housing expenses.
After I finished this book I went home and made some of the changes suggested by this book. They include such obvious things as selling real estate if a buyer can be found and getting rid of variable rate mortgages if you can't sell the real estate. Variable rate mortgages are absolute poison. Selling off stocks is another suggestion. It doesn't have to be done all at once, it can be done over the next couple of years, but most stocks should be sold because the dollar bubble collapse will destroy stock market values. Collectables and art will be non-liquid and will drastically drop in value (90%) for the long term. Gold, and silver to a lesser extent, will retain its position as a hedge against inflation as well as a protection against the dollar bubble collapse. The authors also list the types of jobs that will be in demand during the coming perilous times. As one might expect some job categories will boom while the unnecessary ones will disappear. For example construction workers may want to start looking for jobs that repair existing structures rather than build new buildings. You'll have to read this book to get the answers to many of the questions that reading this volume will provoke.
The thing this reviewer liked the best about this book was the carefully explained logic of it's predictions. It provides a much better overview of the current economy. The readers will discover lots of new information that they've probably never heard or read before, but that the reader's gut instinct and personal experience will tell him or her is obviously true. While the authors may be wrong on some of their predictions, most of them will probably prove all too accurate. At the end of each chapter the authors list a website where more current information on that chapter's point can be gleaned before the next volume of this continuing series is published. This is a page turner, but it will be slow reading from the standpoint of having to constantly stop and make notes in the margin or pause to see how a particular point directly effects the reader's own situation. Reading this book will make you aware of economics like you've never previously been aware. Depending on your age, you may well recall your parents or grandparents advice that they'd learned during the Great Depression of 1929. The coming bubble bursts are going to be a more society-changing depression than the one 1929, although "few will suffer like they did in the Great Depression." The safety net will allow everyone to survive at a low standard of living. While the book didn't make this comparison, while reading it, I could easily visualize the United States as a colder, slightly wealthier version of Cuba. As I read it I also saw some visions of the movie "Dr. Zhivago" pop into my mind.

Should be Banned - (1.0)

Yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater is not allowed, and neither should publishing nonsense such as "Aftershock." The book is a collection of inconsistent blathering by authors who sometimes can't remember what they said from one paragraph to the next.

The purpose of "Aftershock is to detail the next bubbles about to burst - the 'Dollar bubble' and the 'Government Debt Bubble.' The authors begin by reciting their 'credentials' - having predicted the popping of the housing bubble, the consumer spending bubble, the private credit bubble, and the stock market bubble. (Never mind that they were all 100% correlated - you predict one, you get them all. More importantly, they apparently didn't have the courage or knowledge to act on their predictions - eg. leverage up and short every market in sight.)

Now they contend that Americans are in denial - full of cheer-leading. Largely true. Then they contend that the Federal Reserve's continuation of low interest rates may be due to fear that no -one will buy our bonds. Backwards - low interest rates make our bonds, and the dollar, unattractive - hence the sinking dollar. The authors also contend that the rest of the world (including Europe) will end up in even worse shape than us - with China doing worse than all but struggling third-world nations. The reason for China's 'weakness' - it's focus on exports to the U.S. Problem: The Chinese have redirected their economy towards internal consumption and are growing at an annual 8.5% - if only we could do so well!

They then contend that dollar inflation will create huge price increases on imported goods - perhaps even a $100,000 Camry! Except the latest [...] assessment of U.S. content ranks Camry as #1 in U.S. content, ahead even of the F-150. As for their inflation-adjusted $12-15/gallon gas projections, while world price plummets due to falling economies and demand (the U.S. is the biggest user) - that's about as likely as flying pigs.

More advice from the authors: Stay away from stocks (booming at this time) and real estate (starting back up). Sell your home now. Then, in the next paragraph keep your house and enjoy drastically reduced payments via inflation. Reduce your spending and save for future investments (after the prices have skyrocketed due to their projected inflation?).

Massive debts will force government into massive spending cuts, they say. Why - inflation makes debt repayment a breeze!

Bottom Line: Printing nonsense such as "Aftershock" contributes to economic ignorance and should be outlawed.

Excellent book (5.0)

I normally read 2 econ/market related books a month. Aftershock is one of the best financial books I have seen in a long time. It is easy read, full of solid facts and, predicts what is about to come- without double talk. Simply put, the authors are what you may call a "one handed" economists. They give it to you straight and put their credibility on the line. And they have the credibility to be believable. They are among the very few economists who, in 2006, in the "America's Bubble Economy", predicted the economic chaos that we are now in. They predicted the financial meltdown very precisely and told us exactly how it was going to happen! Now in the Aftershock they make their prediction for the next 3-5 years. It is not all doom and gloom. They tell you their reasons for the coming inevitable crises and show you, with very specific recommendations, how to protect yourself. They also tell you how it is going to end. This book is a Must read for anyone who is in the Market as well as those who care about their financial future. Highly recommended.

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Well-written and comprehensive (4.0)

This was our primary textbook for a recent MBA class in Managerial Finance. It was a pleasure to use because of the clear and logical organization of material. The author(s) are obviously experts in the field. When experts write textbooks I notice that one of their problems is distinguishing the dosage for topics that need to be parceled out. A poorly edited textbook may contain too many topics and/or too much detail. The danger, in short, is information overload. A poorly edited book will tend to jumble this information so that the student will be hard-pressed to identify the 20% that is essential versus the 80% that is not.

This was not the case here. Corporate finance abounds with numerous concepts so a subject matter expert will face that problem mentioned above. To the editorial team's credit, this did not happen.

It's a keeper. It will have a place in my library as a useful reference book.