Template for dealing with debt crises

  Bridgewater, billionaire founder Dalio, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, explains in his book a detailed study of economic history, and make us understand the economic mechanisms that drive big credit cycles. The downside of risks of having significant debts depends a lot on the willingness and ability of policymakers to spread out…

Companies more powerful than governments

Levels of income inequality and corporate concentration in the US  have reached extreme levels  not seen since the Gilded Age, as our antitrust and monopoly laws, have just become just as weak and inefficient. Standard Oil and US Steel were more powerful even than the government. Today the so-called FAANGs of the tech sector is…

Sensual dynamic between two young women

Jo a Norwegian narrator and biology student, struggles to find her  niche in the fictional city of Aybourne. As Jo is studying abroad where everything feels alien to her including the slippery and fluid food. “ I remember everything at home as being textured, here I chewed and only the sugar crunched”. The book first…

Who’s more rich and powerful

  Oliver Bullough argue in his latest book Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World  and How To Take It Back, that the current financial system is broken and is actively damaging society, corruption and ideptocracy is not a symptom of a bust society but is a root cause. Oliver Bullough a former…

What makes a good leader

      Books became the greatest of companions for both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. In his new book “Leaders:Myth and Reality”,  Stanley McChrystal admits to an intensive reading habit  by devouring history, biography and memoir before during and after his time as an army cadet at West Point and worked his way to…

Turning on the robots

Computer scientist Kate Devlin in her latest book about intimacy, technology, computers and psychology, Loneliness and companionship, law and ethics, privacy and community, explain how to be a human in the world of machines. Devlin charts her survey of the history of humanoids with the Greek myth of Laodamia, who commissioned a bronze likeness of…

Gandhi lived the great 20th century life

Ramachandra Guha tells the epic story of Gandhi’s life and how he changed the world with his arguments and example. A deeply affecting biography of Mohandas Gandhi, the lawyer who sailed from India to South Africa to advance his career, and returned to his homeland to become the Mahatma. Guha charts the journey of Gandhi…

Precision decision making

Charles Darwin before he published On the Origin of Species wrestled with the predicament to marry or not to marry? Steven Johnson’s classic Where Good Ideas Come From Inspired creative people all over the world with new way of thinking  from innovation and important skill of complex decision-making. You can model the deliberative tactics of…

Her insomniac highs and her dawning sleeplessness

Sleep disorder is a common problem thought to regularly affect around on in every three people in the UK and is predominantly common in elderly people. Sleep is a great commodity and we should protect, analyse and invest in it so that it promises us a full night’s rest. Most people affected by insomnia are…

Shooting star from heaven

  “I took New York life like a star shooting through the heavens” Bill Cunningham, a highly respected New York Times fashion photographer and critic’s  memoir discovered among the possessions reveals a life of live of beauty and exceptional surfaces. Cunningham’s early career as a milliner, Fashion climbing throws light into how its author rose…