In a book (read it here) that’s starts with a lack of humility that we’d expect from anyone in finance these days, Andrew Lees argues that the productivity gains that the Western-World has seen are built principally around the exploitation of energy. And explaining how the availability of lower-cost skills in other countries [...]

I once went to lunch in Singapore with this rich Chinese guy. When the waiter came around to take the order, the RCG stood up, grabbed the waiter by the arm, and led him off on a walk around the restaurant. I was mystified enough that it showed, so one of the other guests explained [...]

The Perfect Spy is about as close to a perfect book as I have ever encountered. Now that that’s off my chest, it should be no surprise that I enjoyed The Mission Song.
Not for its story, which is passable at best. Not for its descriptions of Kivu or for the angst Bruno Salvo feels or [...]

This is one hell of a good book. The cops are rugged as rock, the villains are loveable as teddy bears, and you can feel the grease on the platters and the gunsmoke in the foyer as you read.
One of the better cops-and-robbers books I’ve read in a long, long time.
The scene where the protagonist [...]