It is not often I want to read a whole book when I believe I can get most of the information piecemeal on the 'net. However, I'm happy to have made this book as an exception. Ratigan writes a book that easily could have been titled Greedy Bastards for Dummies. He discusses all the issues of the day in the least boring writing I have read in a long time. He makes everything, economics, politics, foreign trade, health care, and all the rest with which all Americans should find necessary to better understand before the decide for whom they should vote, what they should stop complaining about, what they should start complaining about.
While I have read a great deal about sub-primes, swaps, and all that stuff for the past three or so years, I can say that I finally understand it from a different perspective....that of just how greedy the greedy bastards really were and are. A few years back I read a study of CEOs and found that the majority (not all!) are sociopaths. That should surprise no one. History bears that out by their behavior and phenomenal drain of corporate profits. It is apparent whose team they are on and it is not that of the American citizen. It also makes me wonder about the characters in some of those 'think tanks' as well. Since medicine has cures leprosy, is there not a free island where lobbyists can be sent?
At any rate, if you want to read a fast 227 pages of words the equivalent of a gourmet meal of your favorite food, read this book.
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The latest book by Jon Ronson, author of "The Men Who Stare at Goats", is "The Psychopath Test". In this book, Ronson contends that 4% of CEO's are psychopaths. Now 4% is rather high, but it is far removed from a majority.
What I want to know is what percentage of politicians suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It would not surprise me if a majority of pols have NPD.
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