Book Review: The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas TalebI'm not sure why this turned up in the work book sale, as it's the 2010 edition; maybe it was filler in part of a package shipped for review, or discovered at the back of a cupboard somewhere. Anyhow, it had been on my Amazon list for quite a while ( Read more... )

Book Review: China and America - A Time of Reckoning, by Charles DumasThere's a book-swap shelf at work and unsurprisingly, although there's a range of general material, there are quite a few more specialist books in the realm of economics and finance. This slim volume dates from 2007-8 (with an "appendix", in fact about half the book, extracted ( Read more... )

Book Review: Empire of the Fund - The Way We Save Now, by William A BirdthistleI picked this up recently in a work book sale. At a glance I wondered at its American bias, but thought it would probably be readable nonetheless, which turned out to be right; whenever the text refers to 401(k)s or IRAs, a British reader might as well substitute SIPP or ( Read more... )

Book Review: The Storm, by Vince Cable, and After the Storm, by Vince Cable
I picked up After the Storm in a work book sale before Christmas, and it seemed a good idea to re-read the first installment. That turned out to be a good judgement, as Cable makes frequent references to it in his later book.

At the time I wrote quite positively about The ( Read more... )