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READ THIS BOOK, TOO!

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And Understand America a Little Better The Big Short by Michael Lewis. I'm a little late, since it's been the top biz book on the NYTimes list (still up there close). It's been praised and berated with vigor. But, MAN, it's a killer book. When you read it, not only will you understand the causes of the Great Recession better than you did before, but you will have an insight into us human folk with another layer of delusion ripped away. And it's a hoot to boot, a fun book to read. The characters are great (notwithstanding that they are real), and the narrative plays at full throttle. Imagine, a page-turner about synthetic CDOs and that ilk! It'll put a different light on Tuesday's headline from the Christian Science Monitor, " How Wall Street uses your money to lobby against you. " Enjoy.