Although there are several good sources on the Internet for financial and economic information, if I had to pick my favorite it would be John Mauldin’s newsletter. The newsletter is free and is sent out twice a week, with John usually writing the Friday edition. You can sign-up for his newsletter at 2000wave.com.
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Despite having one of the least attractive book covers I’ve ever seen, Just What I Said is an outstanding collection of economic columns from one of the best, Caroline Baum.
Just What I Said: Bloomberg Economics Columnist Takes on Bonds, Banks, Budgets, and Bubbles by Caroline Baum is nice collection of economic articles from the period [...]
After reviewing Freakonomics last October, Derek tipped me to another book in that genre that I might enjoy.
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres was a better book than Freakonomics in my opinion. Super Crunchers was less about the answer derived from data analysis, it was more [...]
Maybe I’m the last one to finally read Freakonomics, but in my defense it was the updated version.
Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt is part fascinating and part tedious. The chapters dealing with crime are boring and make logical leaps that almost make you [...]
