Review:Contrarian investment guru Doug Casey used to say, "You know the time to dump an investment is when it makes the cover of Time Magazine." I don't rememeber if it was 2004 or 2005 when Time's cover story was "Will Your House Make You Rich?" Casey was right, the time had come to get out of real estate, although profiting from that move was as treacherous as playing a game of high stakes craps in a casino used to fleecing its players.

In a story revealing one man's prescience about the hou... Read more

Review:Jim Collins is at it again. Collins, along with co-author Morten Hansen and a team of over 20 researchers, spent roughly nine years trying to determine why some companies thrive during chaotic, uncertain and unstable times while other companies do not. If you have read some of Collins' earlier books, the theme in "Great by Choice" certainly won't surprise you. In "Built to Last," published in 1994, Collins, co-author Jerry Porras and their research team wrote about what makes for a "visionary... Read more

Review:I feel that this book captured the real spirit of Sam Walton. Why I liked it so much is the simple fact that I got a glimpse of how Sam thought and conducted business. Would definitely recommend to anyone interested in starting their own business, or to those who are just interested in this giant thing called WallMart and its founder Read more

Review:Great book for someone wanting to start a company amd make it visionary. I like how they explain all their research findings and put it all together to show the importance of establishing your companies core values. Overall great read. Read more

Review:Read this and find out who really rules the world, if anybody. Covers 1913 to 1945. Four men (two replaced by death) make most of the decisions that shape the world. Not always well organized, but educational. Read more

Review:optimistic view of the likely trajectory for humanity in the next hundred years. tears down a lot of nonsense that surrounds climate change alarmism and renewable fuels. no politically correct nonsense in this book thank God! Read more

Review:Very well done and informative for anyone over 30 or 40. Has lots of insight into 'the business' and some thought generating information on different aspects of the Narco trade including sound logic for legalization of cannabis. Not sure I agree with doing so, but the argument has compelling elements. Good read to keep a sense of what is going on in a world that is different from mine specially if you have teens or kids in their 20's. Read more

Review:The writer is from South Korea (or his parent). He gave a different perspective regarding copy right issues, corruption in developing countires. He wrote that corruption is a means for developing countries to move ahead. Poor system of taxation and resources redistribution prompt lowly paid civil servants to collect "tax".

He also blame the World organisations for doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. Read more

Review:Surowiecki takes some excellent science, basic and interesting findings on behavior and cooperation, and wires them into one of the most ridiculous ordering of facts and arguments to ever pass as quasi-science.

The basic structure of the book is:

1. Interesting result proving crowds are awesome and experts are nearly meaningless
2. Note about all the factors that could make this finding meaningless
3. Conclusion which assumes away often relevant issues

Aside from we... Read more

Review:Reads like a potboiler or thriller: you really feel like YOU ARE THERE during the frantic deliberations which took place as Wall Street threatened to tumble during the Great Recession. The dizzying whirl of dealmaking as every bank/firm attempts to combine with every other one; the life-or-death decisions made by Hank Paulson & Tim Geithner; the sad fall of Dick Fuld as the government lets Lehman go to the wolves: it all makes for a meticulously researched pageturner. As an ex-Wamulian, I ... Read more