The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel: Stephen Leeb, Glen Strathy

In THE OIL FACTOR, Stephen Leeb accurately predicted the current oil shortage and showed how savvy investors could profit. But now the world is facing an energy crisis of unparalled scope and the recent surge in oil prices is only the tip of the iceberg. With meticulous research and analysis, Leeb shows [...]

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs: Melody Petersen

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Drug companies have institutionalized deception, said a former pharmaceutical executive at a 1990 Senate hearing. And former New York Times reporter Petersen details these deceptions with information that will be startling even to those who closely follow the news on big pharma. Her subtitle, [...]

Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations: Raymond Fisman, Edward Miguel

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Starred Review. In this surprisingly spry read, authors and economics professors Fisman and Miguel tackle economic development issues in Africa, Asia and Latin America, beginning with the question: after decades of independence and billions in foreign aid, why are so many developing [...]

Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser

On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry’s drive for consolidation, [...]

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story: David Einhorn, Joel Greenblatt

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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of the ongoing saga between author David Einhorn’s hedg fund, Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street, showing [...]

The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel: Stephen Leeb, Glen Strathy

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With a nineteen-year history of making bold yet astonishingly accurate forecasts, it is little wonder that when Dr. Stephen Leeb speaks, smart investors take heed. In his 1986 book, Getting in on the Ground Floor, Dr. Leeb prophesied the great [...]

In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India: Edward Luce

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A burgeoning economic and geopolitical giant, India has the 21st century stamped on it more visibly than any other nation after China and the U.S. It’s been an expanding force since at least 1991, explains journalist Luce, when India let go of much of [...]

The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time: John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith has been immersed in economics for most of his long and remarkable life. The purpose of this extended essay is to illuminate examples of “innocent fraud” or the gulf between perception and reality in the modern American economic system–a system he had a hand in creating during his tenure [...]

India Arriving: How This Economic Powerhouse Is Redefining Global Business: Rafiq Dossani

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"I find Dossani’s book to be refreshing in its candor and thought provoking." — Steve Hamm, BusinessWeek.com
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"I find Dossani’s book to be refreshing in its candor and thought provoking." - Steve Hamm, BusinessWeek.com
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India Arriving: How This Economic Powerhouse Is Redefining Global Business: Rafiq Dossani

Editorial Reviews
Steve Hamm, BusinessWeek.com
"I find Dossani’s book to be refreshing in its candor and thought provoking."
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"I find Dossani’s book to be refreshing in its candor and thought provoking." - Steve Hamm, BusinessWeek.com

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