Underbelly

Jennifer Taub's Other People's Houses  is likely to be about as good a book as we are going to get by way of overview of the woes o...

House of Debt  by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi seems to be receiving a warm reception.  Still, I'm not sure the reviewers have made clear wh...

We're back from socialist hell Paris where, I have to say, life seemed not  bit different the day after Marine Le Pen's 25-percent...

Gearing up to read Tim Geithner's tell-all about his years on the bridge in the storm, I dusted off the pixels on the memoir of his col...

The topic for the moment is Reckless Endangerment   by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, which came out in 2011, so I'm only three ...

Recall: my generation grew up in a world where deals chased money.  Since, oh, say, 1980, we've lived in a world where money chased dea...

Justin Fox's Myth of the Rational Market was much praised; I found it kind of meh , repeating and not necessarily improving on a lot o...

Halfway through Alan Blinder's After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response and the World Ahead --it's a rewarding r...

Chez Buce finally caught up with Charles H. Ferguson's Inside Job last night.  I see that   Rotten Tomatoes rates it   at 98 percent ...

I've just finished  Kirsten Grind's The Lost Bank about the collapse of WaMu and I'll give it a thumbs up--surely a worthy add...

In her memoir of her service as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair tells  cute one on herself on how she emerge...

At least in the spin of her enemies (she had a few) Sheila Bair came across as the Lucy Van Pelt of the mortgage meltdown: as head of the Fe...

Read a couple of interesting pieces this week on what makes Spain Spain ( link , link ).  Hint:  six letters, begins with "F" and...

I suppose I ought to say a word about The New New Deal , Michael Grunwald's chronicle of the notorious Obama stimulus.  It's a wort...

I've just now caught up with Noam Scheiber's The Escape Artists  and it is just as good as the reviewers say it was (for one of the...

Elevator pitch for Neil Barofsky's  Bailout : "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington starring a guy with as highly actuated sense of right...

You know about fantasy football and fantasy Supreme Court.   Barry Ritholtz takes it to a whole new level : Chris Whalen and Josh Rosner ...

Best short not-very-technical intro to the Euromess I've seen anywhere: link .

Who caused the great metldown? There's a school of thought that blames it all on the GSEs--FannieFreddie--and their cockamanie project ...

Still can't make up my mind just what to think of  Jeffrey Madrick's Age of Greed .  There were times when I found myself thinking t...