Financial Shock
Posted on May 19, 2009 in Books, Finance
I just finished reading the last pages of Financial Shock by Mark Zandi. Zandi is the head of Moody’s Econony.com and a man well seasoned in all things finance. Financial Shock can be best described as the definite guide to why and how our financial system got to the point it collapsed into the current financial crisis. Zandi writes the book in a rather...
Read MoreThicker Than Water
Posted on May 14, 2009 in Books
Thicker Than Water is the fourth novel in Mike Carey‘s Felix Castor series (See my thoughts on the earlier books here and here). Before I go on to talk about the book itself I just want to point out that although he series started off really good and has only kept on going better and better which is remarkable. I read the fourth book in three sittings, it was...
Read MoreDead Men’s Boots
Posted on April 20, 2009 in Books
I used my flight back to London this past Wednesday to finally finish off reading Mike Carey’s third Felix Castor novel, Dead Men’s Boots. As I’ve mentioned in my post about the previous books in the series; Castor is an London based exorcist who sort of reads like a less powerful version of John Constantine from Hellblazer. Castor is also less...
Read MoreFooled By Randomness
Posted on March 20, 2009 in Books, Finance
After reading Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan a few months back I kind of figured out that I might as well read Taleb’s first book on the subject, Fooled By Randomness as well. Both Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan make good points about the need of understanding the concepts of fat tale events. The book also makes good points about the things...
Read MoreThe Devil You Know & Vicious Circle
Posted on March 19, 2009 in Books
I’ve been a fan of Mike Carey’s writing for a few years now ever since I read his take on The Lightbringer in Vertigo’s Lucifer series and John Constantine in The Hellblazer series. So when I saw The Devil You Know sitting in a shelf at a local book store for under five quid I thought why not and picked it up. Devil You Know is the first book...
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