My Mind on Mortgages

I’ve blogged a few times in the previous months about my recent fascination with the subject of “neuroeconomics”.  This is a field of study that looks at the role a person’s pschye, emotions, and/or subjective-self plays in making economic decisions.  I’m fascinated by this subject because of the gap between the body of fiscal knowledge [...]

My sister & brother-in-law gave me a subscription to Lapham’s Quarterly for my birthday last year.  If you’re not familiar with this quarterly periodical it is literary magazine founded by former Harper’s editor Lewis Lapham.  Each issue he picks a theme and then searches historical & contemporary literature for inclusion in the issue.  It’s a [...]

I’ve elected to do my book reviews a little differently.  In the past I’ve waited until I completed a book before I recorded thoughts and excerpts that I found interesting.  The problem with this approach is that it is very time consuming because I save all the work for the end.  Therefore, from now on [...]

I’ve been meaning to do a quick book review post on “The Big Short” for the past few months but these posts are kind of time consuming.  A couple weeks ago NPR’s Planet Money team did a ‘Deep Read’ interview with the author Michael Lewis.  If you’re not familiar with Lewis he is an author [...]

It feels good to be reading for recreation again.  Although, I’ve had trouble finding time to review the books I’ve read.  I completed Michael Lewis’s classic “Liar’s Poker” earlier this summer and am just getting around to posting this. If you liked the movie “Wall Street” or like reading about the greedy scum on Wall [...]

I just got done reading the third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Series (The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, & The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest).  I don’t think I’ll spend anytime reviewing them on this blog since they are not financially related AND because they’ve [...]

I am currently in the middle of preparing to sit for the CFP(R) Board’s CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(R) test in July 2010.  I have been at it since the Fall of 2009 and my efforts have prevented me from doing any recreational reading.   I’m looking forward to completing the test (and hopefully passing) and having my [...]

Apparently there is a new biography about Ayn Rand’s life out on the shelves.  I plan to purchase it in the near future.  Here is a link to the NY Times book review.  Maybe this will motivate me to finally get “The Fountainhead” up on my book review page.

After recently reading “Outliers”, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, I was inspired to read “Blink” which was the remaining of his I hadn’t yet read. I really like Gladwell for two reasons.  First, the subject matter he writes about is both relevant and interesting.  The stuff he covers is right under our nose all day everyday [...]

While strolling through one of the best second-hand book stores in NZ (Title Book Galleries) I ran across this title from Deirdre Kent, an unknown writer from NZ.  Being that I have an interest in economics as well as sustainability I thought it would be a good one for me to read. Kent’s premise is [...]