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Books of March

A while back I wrote about so many books  ( so little time ) on my list. Another point of view - so many revelations waiting to be revealed to the ignorant me, lying on my desk gathering dust. So here are the two books I've on my March 2013 list: Crisis Economics - A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini I'm still reading it! I was curious about the financial crisis of 2008. It is perhaps the biggest event of my life. It has affected millions of my generation in a way no other single event has. Subprime, derivatives, CDOs and whole other "soup of alphabets" came into the life of ordinary men and women.  It was interesting to read how regularization and de-regularization throughout this century has brought us into this mess. Is there a single right way? Why did some of the best minds in economics screwed up (maybe the greed overcame everything else)? I hope I've an answer when I'm able to finish going through this crisis. It...