Sense on Cents

From despair may come opportunity but, as Phil Trupp’s Ruthless so cogently details, from despair can also come real inspiration.

The trying times that have resulted from our economic crisis have generated the opportunity for many analysts, bloggers, authors, and publishers to produce works which would help people truly understand the fundamentals of our economic crisis and how they developed. All too often, I have seen these works try to go inside Wall Street and disect the inner workings of our financial architecture. Regrettably, all too often, these works merely look to expose or excoriate those within our financial industry while they do not truly educate investors and American citizens at large. While some of the works are somewhat enlightening, I had yet to read or witness a body of work that connects the massive failings on Wall Street to the personal lives of those on Main Street. Until now. (more…)