Book Reviews, Business • By Mark Tier • June 14, 2012
Do you run your business?
Or does your business run you?
Book Reviews, Religion • By Mark Tier • March 19, 2012
When Moses led the Israelites from Egypt, they brought their monotheistic God, Yahweh, with them and proceeded to wipe out the Canaanites and occupy their lands.
That’s the standard story.
But to go by Robert Wright’s exposition in his book, The Evolution of God, it’s wrong on every count.
Book Reviews, Religion • By Mark Tier • March 19, 2012
“If God is good why does he permit suffering [and evil]?”
Book Reviews, Recommended Investment Books • By Mark Tier • April 20, 2005
Books About George Soros Far less, sad to say, has been written about George Soros, no doubt because both the man and his methods are far more complex and less accessible than is the case with Buffett. The best introduction is Robert Slater’s bio-graphy, Soros: the Life and Times of the World’s Greatest Investor. Slater emphasizes…
Book Reviews, Recommended Investment Books • By Mark Tier • April 20, 2005
The Seven Deadly Investment Sins need “powerful magic” to be exorcised — exactly what you’ll find in these three books.
Book Reviews, Investor's Edge • By Mark Tier • June 1, 2007
Will your portfolio survive the next “Black Swan”—a market meltdown that nobody had foreseen?
Book Reviews, Politics • By Mark Tier • March 20, 2005
Imagine we’re on a plane; we’ve crossed an ocean, we’ve landed; we’re taxiing up to the gate. As we file off the plane we have our passports ready.
But something rather strange happens: no one wants to look at them. We see no official-looking types of any kind.
Welcome to Freelandia, a country—perhaps it’s better to call it a place—which is truly free: there’s no government to invade and restrict our liberties. Of course, Freelandia doesn’t exist (yet) except in my imagination.
And in science fiction, the literature of the imagination
Book Reviews, Politics • By Mark Tier • March 20, 2005
Give Me Liberty is a collection of classic science fiction stories I co-edited with Martin H. Greenberg. It was published by Baen Books in January 2003