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I'll say this: this book understands politics and public policy better than it understds Economics. Not to say that it gets Economics wrong, they don't. It's just that the evidence the use to prove their points is somewhat Shakey.

Now politics.... That hey get perfectly. It's scary how much they breakdown our system and it fails.

Overall solid, if sadly a bit dated (a expected trait from a 8 year old book).

Despite it's age, it's still pretty on point.

A spectacular book.

Honnestly, this is a fascinating book. For one, it's a entertaining and humorous book on Economics.... Which is a accomplishment I rarely see outside the works of Charles Wheelan.

And speaking of Charles Wheelan, this book also accomplishs something he fails to do in his political endeavors: it actually manages to hold a position of respectable principaled centristism. That's something I need more space to explain..

This story is absolutely captivating. It's amazing how some people can lie so well and justify it by their extreme level of their self-diagnosed brilliance.

It's also amazing how many good and smart people are drawn in to their act, and go down with the liars when the house of cards comes crumbling down.

Not a bad book. So far it brings up some cool Economics stories I haven't heard before, and seem to take a more nuanced position on market systems.

I know that this won't be my kind of book. It's primarily about where markets WORK vs where they fail. I support markets where they function, but in America the ONLY acceptable system is the market system. That's our default.

What a glorious book. It's wonderfully written (Roger Lowenste is an amazing writer) and brilliantly tells the often ignored and forgotten story of LTCM (a footnote and precursor story for anyone seriously studying the 2007-8 mortgage crash).

So far it's easily one of the best pre-crash finance/Business books (one I rank up their with Bookstabbers Demons of our own Design).

The book embraces public election financing. It's got a ton of flaws, but it at least gets this right..... Although it fails to identify legislation that creates a system they are advocating for (legislation that's existed since 2014, 3 years before the book was published).

That's pretty bad advocacy for a very necessary program.