In August of last year I read an interesting book called The Great Depression Ahead by Harry Dent and posted the following blog. Dent’s book summarized that demographic changes and technology cycles predict business and economic trends and that between now and 2014 the stock market will correct to around 3,500 (the market today is [...]
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Financial Armageddon – Reader Discretion is Advised
Posted in Books, tagged Aftershock, America's Bubble Economy - Profit When it Pops, Cindy Spitzer, David Wiedemer, Federal Reserve, Harry Dent, Robert Wiedemer, The Great Depression Ahead on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Mockingjay – Great Series
Posted in Books, tagged anti-war, Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mockingjay the last of the Suzanne Collins novels in my mind is the most thought provoking of the three. This novel tracks the war that breaks out between the repressive regime and the rebels and the book has an underlying anti-war theme. Below I have listed a few statements that had the most impact on [...]
Catching Fire – Love This Trilogy
Posted in Books, tagged Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay, President Snow, Suzanne Collins, Young Adult Fiction on January 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Catching Fire the second Suzanne Collins book was another exciting quick read with lots of action. I finished it in a couple of days and am now waiting on a friend to loan me the third and final book in the trilogy, Mockingjay. If your not a big reader I would definitely recommend this series. [...]
Hunger Games – May the Odds be Ever in Your Favor
Posted in Books, tagged class warfare, Katniss Evergreen, Panem, Susan Collins, The Hunger Games on January 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Last Friday night a friend from work (thanks Ashley) let me borrow her copy of The Hunger Games, the first book in the Susan Collins trilogy and I had finished it by Sunday night. I literally could not put the book down it was that good. The story takes place in a post apocalyptic world [...]
Striving for Perfection
Posted in Books, tagged Apple, Atari, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak on November 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A couple weeks ago while on the flight back from Savannah I borrowed the current number one best seller, Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson from my niece Amy and finished it last night. While reading the book I would often think back to the huge bulky desktop computers we had at work in the early [...]
From Grandpa’s Bookshelf: Optimism Amidst The Great Depression
Posted in Books, Family, tagged Akron, Books, Family, Gilbert Neal, Grandpa's Bookshelf, Great Depression, Imperial Electric Company, John Hearty, Optimism, Thought Starters on November 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
1939 was not a great year. The Great Depression had lingered for 10 years, with no end in sight. In Europe, the growth of Nazi Germany and then the invasion of Poland brought on World War II. Aggressive totalitarian regimes were found across the globe. You would not have blamed someone of that time for [...]
The Trophy Kids Grow Up
Posted in Books, tagged Millennials, Ron Alsop, The Trophy Kids Grow Up on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I finished a book written by Ron Alsop titled The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation is Shaking Up the Workforce. The reason I decided to read the book is typically when I get together with my older friends no matter what their occupation they have some pretty interesting [...]
A Candidate for Everyone ?
Posted in Books, tagged A Mormon in the White House, Bain and Company, Federal Government, Hugh Hewitt, Mitt Romney, Republican Party on November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I just finished reading a book written by Hugh Hewitt who is a talk show host on the East Coast and he makes a compelling case as to why Mitt Romney would make an excellent president. The reason I decided to read the book is because I have had friends on both sides of the [...]
A Return To Fear And Loathing
Posted in Books, Politics, tagged Books, Edmund Muskie, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, Hunter S. Thompson, Politics, Scoop Jackson on November 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The Washington Post‘s Ruth Marcus wrote a recent column about the upcoming 2012 campaign where she used the magic words “fear and loathing” to describe what she believes will be a grueling, hard-fought battle. I’m sure she used those words advisedly, because for any political junkie “fear and loathing” immediately conjures up memories of the [...]
Buying The President’s Books
Posted in America, Books, Humor, World, tagged America, Books, Dreams from My Father, Federal Budget, Federal Spending, Humor, News, President Obama, The Audacity of Hope, United States State Department, World on November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes it is the little stories that are the most instructive. I think that may be the case with the story about the State Department, through various U.S. embassies, spending more than $60,000 on books authored by President Obama. According to a federal database, the American embassy in Paris spent more than $8,300 on Dreams [...]
From Grandpa’s Bookshelf: Grandma’s Book Of Sayings
Posted in Books, Family, tagged Books, Family, Grandpa's Bookshelf, Invictus, Maude Neal, Poetry, Sir Humphrey Davy, William Ernest Henley on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Years ago, when Grandpa Neal moved into a retirement community, I inherited every volume on his bookshelves. I took them because I love books and because I think the contents of bookshelves say a lot about their owners. Recently I stumbled across a slim volume from their bookshelf. Inside were pages of Grandma Neal’s handwriting, [...]
Does History Repeat Itself ?
Posted in Books, tagged Don Peck, Pinched on September 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My friend Heather turned me on to listening to NPR radio recently and the first day I tuned in they were talking to author Don Peck on Talk of the Nation who wrote a book titled Pinched – Downturns can leave Americans Pinched for years. So I got the book from the library and found [...]
Bursting Bubbles
Posted in Books, tagged demographic trends, economic bubbles, economy, home prices, stock market, The Great Depression Ahead on August 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
With the wild stock market swings in recent days I thought it might be helpful to recommend a book I just finished today, The Great Depression Ahead by Harry Dent. It is an excellent book which is simple to understand that everyone who is an investor should read with an open mind of course. Mr [...]
Potter’s End
Posted in Books, Movies, tagged Alan Rickman, Albus Dumbledore, Bellatrix Lestrange, Books, Citizen Kane, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Gone With The Wind, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Helena Bonham Carter, Lord Voldemort, Michael Gambon, Movies, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Harris, Rupert Grint, Severus Snape on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, will be released to a breathless public. It will be the last installment of the Harry Potter series of movies — movies that, since the first film was released 10 years ago, have generated huge sums for Warner Brothers and theatre owners everywhere. The Harry [...]
The Ohioana Book Festival, Coming Soon
Posted in Books, Columbus, Ohio, tagged Books, Columbus, Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, Ohio, Ohioana Book Festival on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Those who like books — and who could be more erudite than the hardy handful of readers of the Webner House blog? — have a treat in store. The 2011 Ohioana Book Festival is coming to the Fort Hayes campus in Columbus on Saturday, May 7, 2011. It’s going to be another great program — [...]
