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Currency Wars

the Making of the Next Global Crisis
Jul 31, 2014lmm789 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I'm with StarGladiator. Rickards writes like a person with autism - obsessed with a very narrow, self-serving view that raises serious questions more about the quality of his research than his subject. Which is worse - his plain bad writing or the self-congratulatory style typical of yesterday's bankster lawyers, who have used their Industrial Age monopoly, not talent, to pretend that reading and writing are somehow rocket science and far more valuable than actually knowing how to make something useful. They are worse than economists. To understand what is broken in today's economic system, the preferred text, in my view, is Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. One needs a strong stomach to overcome Black Swan's enormous ego but the guy at least is real. He has been a player. Rickards is just yesterday's wanna-be.pundit who fizzles rather than sizzles. Currency Wars is like the stale odor of a tea party fart that lingers after the explosion.