From The Daily Beast, an interview with Edmund Phelps; and an interview with Claudia Goldin, author of The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century. A review of The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession by Andrew Gamble. A review of Wall Street: America's Dream Palace by Steve Fraser. A review of Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street by Kate Kelly. A review of Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett (and more and more and more). A review of Daniel Gross' Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation. A review of The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy (and more). From FT, a pugnacious pundit Wall Street can't ignore: Meet Charlie Gasparino, the CNBC reporter who has broken many stories about the financial crisis, and discover why everybody listens when he talks. An interview with economist Claudio Katz: "The solution to the crisis of capitalism has to be political". Here are ten things you can do to stimulate a new economy.
