Empire of Pain is a multi-generational biography of the Sackler family; it is an expose on one of the biggest business and medicine scandals of the last few decades; and it is a warning about how the tools that the government and our scientific and academic institutions can be manipulated to do people harm for profit.
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Book Review: Active Value Investing
I read a lot of books about finance and investing, and this is one of the best. I seriously put this on par with Benjamin Graham (The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters), and John Mihaljevic (The Manual of Ideas). It is that good.
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Book Review: How to Prepare for Climate Change
I enjoy watching David Pogue host episodes of Nova on PBS. He is great at taking complex science and making it accessible and interesting to the view. His new book, How to Prepare for Climate ChangeL A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos, is along those same lines.
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Book Review: Kleptopia
Tom Burgis has done amazing research into the web of kleptocrats that has risen out of the fall of the Soviet Union. Most of the focus is on Russian mobster Semion Mogilevich and the Kazakh Trio of oligarchs that own Eurasian Natural Resources Company.
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