Book Reviews

If you are a long time reader (and I mean, back to the third post that I ever wrote; I’ve definitely grown a lot as a writer since then), you’ll know that I’ve been a fan of Trent Hamm and his blog The Simple Dollar since well before I started to write my own blog.  […]

I’m going to take a little detour from the discussions of money to talk about one of my other passions: books.  Yes, as you might guess from my (ideally) weekly book reviews, I enjoy reading and find it quite beneficial.  I’ve yet to read a book that didn’t provide me with some benefit, from learning

There aren’t that many economists who become celebrities; there’s something about the profession (or perhaps the people who gravitate to the profession) that keeps them from achieving the same level of almost certain celebrity as, say, athletes or actors.  One of the exceptions to this rule is Malcolm Gladwell, who has a tendency to write

Ah, the FairTax.  It seems I just can’t get away from writing about it in one form or another.  If you’ve never heard of it, I’ve already covered many of the most salient points when I first wrote about it.  Lately, I’ve gotten more jaded about the whole concept, and wrote about several of the