Comments on: Create your own economy cover up shock! Troppo exposé

By: MikeM

MikeM — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:59:54 +0000

There's an interesting piece in the current Vanity Fair about Michael Burry, a successful fund manager who shorted US mortgage-backed securities. Burry had always had difficulty relating to other people and put it down to loss of one of his eyes in childhood. Belatedly he realises after his four-year son is diagnosed as autistic that he is too - that his difficulties with people had nothing to do with the loss of his eye. "Betting on the Blind Side" is a chapter excerpted from Michael Lewis's latest book.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:45:07 +0000

I liked this quote in the book from Jonathon Sacks Britain’s chief rabbi.

It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.

By: Rafe

Rafe — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:18:20 +0000

He probably produces too many books, almost one a year lately, that is too much to expect ever one to be good. He wrote a great book on arts funding in the US – re the fusss on the $180 mil of public funding, he pointed out that the appropiation for military bands was near $200 mil.

On the danger of book blurbs, when Mary Martin had a mailing list about half the books that I purchased off the list turned out to duds. When the store came to Sydney about half the books that I bought did not look very interesting in the catalogue. Much the same with Clouston and Hall remainders.