Read any good books?

[lisa kit]

Trying to encourage the discussion and review of book titles.

[Jim Rock]

Never Again I read in summer, finshed "the War of the World" by Niall Ferguson just recently and that will put shivers down your spine seeing history reapeated again right now, "THe Faith of th American Soldier" by Stephen Mansfield was a sad book about how the Dems are trying to take God out of War and reading "History Rewritten" by Morris, a year late and not long ago The Political Zoo by Savage

2 mud flaps are about to read the telepromter in a minute--this guy has to be on TV every day

[Young Jeffersonian Republican]

I may decide to read Newt's book after I finish Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", but what are his ideas when it comes to tax reform?

[Terrence Abrams]

Newt's very solid on Tax Reform buddy, I think you'll like it.

A nice word of warning about Lisa Kit here. This young woman is very well educated and can digest big, thick, deep and technical books like candy for breakfast. If you ever want to debate her, come loaded for bear...

heheheh

[Frank Tentler]

I am currently reading "Team of Rivals." Contrary to the oft repeated mantra by the MSM and the left, Obama is not doing the same thing as Lincoln did when Lincoln selected his cabinet. It is obvious to me they haven't read the book.

[Terrence Abrams]

the movie was GREAT.

CookieMonsterSig said:

If you are looking for some political humor, I say turn to Christopher Buckley. He has written books like Thank You For Smoking (If you havent seen this movie, you need to ASAP), his latest book is Supreme Courtship.

Also, anyone interested in taking a look into my generation, there is a good book that I read that i think describes the 25 and under crowd, it is called Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics by Morley Winograd,

[Marlene H. Klim]

How about "If Democrats had any Brains, They'd be Republicans".

[Marlene H. Klim]

lisa kit said:

Try to give a little insight to the books premise.

Here is a good start. Liars Poker M. Lewis. An insight into wall street greed, the writer was an employee of Salomon Brothers. These guys would complain about only making 150 million a year on mortgage securities. One state wouldn't allow their mortgages to be packaged into bonds, so they lobbied congress to "over ride" the state law. This book shows tricks and tactics used by bond traders. He also states that the average trader has a 3 year career, and 7 years is consider a long time. Makes you wonder why certain settlements were granted @ 30 years of remaining on the job. Being a very popular book I hope someone else has some input on the text.

I am gonna have to read this one. Sounds good.

[Jim2000]

This one probably comes to mind since I just posted about Austrian Economics:

What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard

This ia very interesting look at just what money is, how it has evolved over the years, and how de-linking the dollar from gold partially (in 1933) and totally (in 1971) has devalued our currency. It is a bit unnerving to see just how much control the governement has over the value of our money.

You can actually listen to the entire book in MP3 format here.

[lisa kit]

I have been looking a good MP3 book source. Have an MP3 that plugs n the cig lighter, uses USB flash drives (<512mb), plays over the radio ($40). No skipping, fit 7 albums on 1 stick, very convenient.

[Jim Rock]

I have never read an Ayn work, I should because I been seing good reports all over

Young Jeffersonian Republican said:

I may decide to read Newt's book after I finish Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", but what are his ideas when it comes to tax reform?

[Jim Rock]

the War of the World dealt a lot about the gold and monetary markets of the Europe countries and the US. Before I read the book I could not understand how Soros had the power for Black Wed, now I think he has a hand in todays economic downturn

Jim2000 said:

This one probably comes to mind since I just posted about Austrian Economics:

What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard

This ia very interesting look at just what money is, how it has evolved over the years, and how de-linking the dollar from gold partially (in 1933) and totally (in 1971) has devalued our currency. It is a bit unnerving to see just how much control the governement has over the value of our money.

You can actually listen to the entire book in MP3 format here.

[lisa kit]

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk P. Bernstein

Artical excerpt : Jason Zweig, Money magazine
In Wall Street's herd of narrow and twitchy minds, he is patient wisdom personified. Over the vast sweep of his long career, he has probably learned more about more aspects of investing than anyone else alive. Even a summary of his career puts most "experts" to shame: classmate of John F. Kennedy at Harvard, intelligence officer during World War II, researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank, economics professor, money manager, pioneer in investment analysis, historian, expert on risk and author.


To any math nuts like myself, a must read. This book shows how mathmatics evolved From the gambler Cardano (where we get the name for playing cards) to the greatest mathmatician ever Gauss. This book explains how, until the use of the Arabic numbering system matamatics wasn't practical. One of my favorite parts was when Napoleon came upon Gauss's home town, when conquering Europe, and told his troops paraphrased "Spare this town for it is the home of the greatest mathmatician ever." It's been said if Gauss's work had been released upon his death, our mathmatics would be 25 years more advanced. Lucky for us, a great nephew recognized the potential of his work and got it to the right people. His works are the basis of our modern day electronics. Here is a cool math trick pointed out, take consecutive odd numbers 1,3,5,7... The total of those odd numbers will be the count of numbers (in the example 4 #s) squared. In example 4 squared is 16, 1+3+5+7=16. Is that not cool or what.

Reading these 400pgs will help U understand your risk a little better, instead of assuming its all in the hands of the Gods.