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This book is about the one percent – or, to be more accurate, about the 0.1 percent or indeed the 0.01 percent – that constitute the wealthiest individuals on the planet. To get straight to the point: It is a highly recommended book definitely worth reading, containing a plethora... Read More

Has the situation of Afro-American improved under the Obama Administration? The author, who is black himself, and who spent more than 20 years working as journalist for the Wall Street Journal, draws a bitter conclusion: At the time Obama started his first term in office, the... Read More

This is one of the best books I have read in recent years. It is a critical account about the present state of Europe, and is meant to serve as a warning to Americans not to keep going down the road of the European welfare state. The differences between Europe and the United... Read More

This is a new biography of one of the most important entrepreneurs and inventors of the 20th century, who for a time was also the wealthiest man in the United States. Henry Ford is considered the inventor of industrial mass production, because he made the automobile a mass... Read More

A few words for readers unfamiliar with the name Jim Rogers: During the 1980s, he and George Soros managed the Quantum Fund that earned its investors 4,200% of profit over a decade during which the US stock market gained a mere 47%. Even at the time, Rogers invested worldwide,... Read More

How does market sentiment among private and institutional real estate investors influence the performance of direct and indirect real estate investments? This is the question addressed by the doctoral thesis underlying this book, which divides into three essays. “The purpose of... Read More

“You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It’s the language of business and it’s an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting—how to read and interpret financi... Read More

This is simply a book with a plethora of quotes by Bill Gates. The arrangement of the quotes has struck me as odd, because they are alphabetically ordered by headline rather than being grouped into subject areas. But browsing through the collection will be worth your while,... Read More

Total Recall. My Unbelievably True Life Story, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012, 646 pages. For 35 years now I have closely followed the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I probably read every biography of his that has ever been written. There is no other living celebrity... Read More

When elected as the next President of the Unites States in 2008, Barack Obama seemed to many like a political messiah – and in Germany his positive image has never been contested in earnest. Stateside, however, things have radically shifted, as not just Republicans but many of... Read More