I listened to this on tape and it took me across the great states of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and ND. It's long. It's very good. I learned a lot about the internal machinations of the post 9/11 moments. I always wondered about Tony Blair and this makes his story more clear.There were s...
Once upon a time, I stumbled onto this book on the bargain shelf at Barnes & Noble. Since it cost practically nothing and looked mildly interesting, I bought it. It went in my TBR bookcase where it languished for years. Oh, occasionally I would pick it up, blow the dust away and read the blurbs a...
The amount of fraud that went on at Prudential-Bache as related by this book is absolutely shocking. Even more outrageous is the fact that so many defrauded investors were "paid back" cents on the dollar through class action suits that they didn't participate in. (Apparently, to opt out of a clas...
This book presents Andy Fastow, Enron CFO, as the principal architect behind the fall of Enron, diminishing the legitimacy of the US financial institution, feeding the CA energy crisis and international problems, specifically in India and Latin America.Fastow created accounting entities which wer...