"When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change"

By Mohamed A. El-Erian
McGraw Hill, 2008

A brilliantly prescient overview of the global economic and financial world without technical geekiness and numbing charts. Mr. El-Erian, as well qualified on this topic as any, provides a very readable explanation of where we are today and a very credible view of where we are heading.

Unicorn Rating: 5 out of 5

"The End of Wall Street"

by Roger Lowenstein
The Penguin Press, 2010

A very readable and thorough account of the Great Meltdown which, we hoped was titled prophetically. Since we know now that Wall Street is the same gang of thugs, thieves and miscreants they always have been, we can recommend this as the best reckoning of how we got where we got that’s been published.

Unicorn Rating: 4 out of 5