Wall Street by Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis a former Wall Street trader laid bare Wall Street’s eighties excess in his book Liar’s Poker his new book The Big Short is about the recent banking crises. When he speaks it’s worth listening. “Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for the crisis: they really did this,” he argues. “And what [...]
The Lost Generation
Baby boomers took all the good jobs, the free education and the cheap housing and left their kids with nothing but the credit crunch and the bill for their pensions.
Our parents had free education, fat pensions, and second homes. We’ve got student debt and a property ladder with rotten rungs. Thanks very much, says Andrew Hankinson.
