Is it time yet to start pulling together books about last week’s catastrophe on Wall Street? Publishers are uneasy about making plans too soon, but the city’s finest financial journalists—and their literary agents—are eager to get moving.
“There are probably two dozen writers in search of a book, but if you Read More
POP! WHY BUBBLES ARE GREAT FOR THE ECONOMY
By Daniel Gross
Collins, 232 pages, $22.95
Daniel Gross’ counter-intuitive argument goes something like this: Grand visionaries, or possessed business people (though it’s sometimes hard to distinguish the two), come up with a brilliant idea—be it the telegraph and railroads in the 19th century, or Read More
The Eater: Daniel Gross
The Bet: “John Snow will have a replacement, and he may very well come from the corporate world. But if it’s an A-list Wall Street CEO, I’ll buy a copy of Dow 36,000 and eat the first chapter.”
The Meal: Paper soaked in balsamic vinaigrette
The Video: Read More
A reader clips and forwards:
It’s ironic that much of the expanded coverage of both the Times (Thursday Styles, House & Home, Real Estate) and the Journal (the Friday weekend section, the Saturday edition) is dedicated to the sort of high-end consumption that reporters can’t really afford. As a result, there’s a nose-pressed-to-the-glass quality to Read More
