Books that have piqued my interest:
-Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy (Joseph E. Stiglitz)
-Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average (Joseph T. Hallinan)
-Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics (Anthony Zee)
-The Age of American Unreason (Susan Jacoby)
I was listening on the radio today about the looters in Chile, and it occurred to me that they are no different than the bankers who are buying insurance now, betting Greece will default on its loans and tumble into economic collapse. A whole caste of people who see tragedy and disaster, and their first and only reaction is, "how can I profit by this?"
Thy kingdom come.
- J
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