Don Kasprzak

Conversations regarding Globalization, Internet2 and Education

April 25, 2012
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Opening The Vault On The Financial Crisis

Great Britain slipped into recession again this week. Its worth another view of how close we came to economic collapse: [youtube width="512" height="288"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVV6dzDOgQ0[/youtube] The HBO movie was good.  The book was so much better….and rather shocking.

January 1, 2011
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Favorite book of 2010

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves is clearly my favorite (for all the wrong reasons — you know economy on the brink of collapse) book in … Continue reading

July 22, 2010
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My latest read – On the Brink

A financial crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson faced the largest crisis in our country’s modern history with a great opportunity.  His first hand account of the near collapse of our financial economy is detailed … Continue reading

July 3, 2010
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My latest read – House of Cards

After ripping through Too Big to Fail it seems natural to continue understanding the collapse of Bear Stearns with House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street to get a bit under the hood of … Continue reading

June 22, 2010
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My latest read: Too BIG to FAIL

I humbly believe Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves is not only a great read and one of the best books written about … Continue reading