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Robert J. Ringer Known best, symbolically, by The Tortoise that embellished his books and newsletters, this author of three No. 1 N.Y. Times Bestsellers (Looking Out for Number One, Winning through Intimidation, and Restoring the American Dream) and numerous other books, Robert Ringer, released Action in 2005. Once […]
The Age of Turbulence (TAT) chronicles Greenspan’s career and explains his beliefs in capitalism and outlines the seeds of turbulence that cloud the world’s future. His scholarship is irrefutable and his infinite abundance of hands-on experience with the world’s governments (from Nixon to date) and with the largest corporations is unprecedented; these, in concert, afford […]
Mark Steyn Regency Publishing, 2006 Mark Steyn’s political and societal commentaries have been published in leading newspapers and magazines around the world. His predilection is satire with a humorous twist, wherever possible, but it is his profound analysis of contemporary facts that arrests the reader and leads many to form new opinions on global issues. […]
By Senator Chuck Hagel Two-term U. S. Senator Chuck Hagel (Nebraska), who has often been mentioned as potential Presidential candidate, has written a candid, insightful and instructive commentary on America’s key issues – delving into Iran, Iraq, wars in general, the monetary system, the national debt, free trade, health care, mores, leadership and other pivotal […]
Adam Gopnik (2009) On February 12, 1809, two men, who changed the world, were born: Charles Darwin, in England, and Abraham Lincoln, in Kentucky. The erudite journalist, Adam Gopnik, has written a fascinating and entertaining comparison of the lives, prose and contributions of these giants. He begins observing poetically, “We are all pebbles dropped in […]
By Barry Sears, Ph.D. Barry Sears, Ph.D., is a widely published scientist and researcher. The Anti-Aging Zone (AAZ) goes beyond his NY Times No. 1 Bestseller, The Zone, by addressing much more than diet. It advances the cause of anti-aging medicine, the analysis of blood on a regular basis, to identify deficiencies in various vitamins, […]
A Digest of Robert Hagstrom’s Introduction Rene Descartes, the 17th century French philosopher, said “It is not enough to have good intelligence, the principle thing is to apply it well.” It has often been said that there three keys to wealth: making it; saving it; and investing it wisely. Many people are good at […]
Alice Schroeder With countless books devoted to “the Oracle of Omaha”, Warren Buffett, of which I have read several including one 1,500-pager, Snowball is likely the best, because it was written by Alice Schroeder, an accomplished journalist with an exceptional literary talent, who was the only person that Buffett ever asked to write about him, […]
Andrew Kilpatrick Of the legion of books about the iconic “Oracle of Omaha,”, this is the largest, a 1,600-page elephantine, unauthorized biography by Andrew Kilpatrick. This fact-filled tome was kindly given to me by an esteemed money-manager, John Pinto, and his Olympic Gold Medalist-wife, Donna deVarona, both longtime Buffett investors, whose photos grace p. 934. […]
Jim Rogers Jim Rogers is among the most successful investors of my lifetime. An early partner of George Sorros, he has made fortunes investing and managing money. From the hard money, Ayn Rand school of capitalism, like Allan Greenspan, he is best known as a devotee of a hard currency, precious metals and, above all, […]