Bad Money

…e time, no matter what my schedule is. It is an anchor in my life. Mostly sf and time-tested classics. I'm starting to read Aubrey-Maturin by Patrick O'Brian. I finished Master and Commander and I'm on the next one, Post Captain. I'm reading Bad Money by Kevin Phillips, which basically called the market failures early this year. I've got A Canticle for Leibowitz and Anathem, which I'm doing as a pair. I started reading Stephen King in chronological order a while back, and I'm up to Pet Sematary (early 80s). Also, Crockford's JavaScript book.

…ious as to how my nick would imply that I "live in a [sic] informational isolation and has no access to news..." I'm also looking forward to a book that Amazon touts "In Bad Money, Phillips describes the consequences of our misguided economic policies, our mounting debt, our collapsing housing market, our threatened oil, and the end of American domination of world markets. America’s current challenges (and failures) run striking parallels to the decline of previous leading world economic powers—especially the Dutch and British. Global overreach, worn-out politics, excessive debt, and exhausted energy regimes are all chilling signals that the United States is crumbling as the world superpower." Gee. Must be quite the fun guy to run into at parties. I'm not going to get into Russian corruption and associated risk involved with investing the…

…age [and uses it]. For English speakers the only source of information about international affairs, IMO, is books: Internet and TV are useless. For Daniel I'd recommend "Bad Money" by Kevin Phillips.