For more than 25 years, Louis Rukeyser has been the host of Wall Street Week, the longest-running and most respected financial news show on television. Now Mr. Rukeyser shares his wealth of knowledge in an entertaining and informative book that contains more than 150 lists on all aspects of the business, financial, and political spectra.
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This pleasant browsing volume, from the host of PBS's Wall Street Week, is a mixed bag of frivolous and useful information. The 175 or so lists range from the silliest laws and regulations to the 20 healthiest places to live to best-performing stocks and bonds and Fortune's ten most- and ten least-admired companies. Lists are mostly from business or government publications like Fortune or the Statistical Abstract, interspersed with opinions from Wall Street Week panelists. Lots of sidebars compare prices for goods and services between 1947 and 1997. The entertainment value, low cost, and reading ease will make this a popular circulating item for public libraries and Rukeyser's TV viewers. It is clearly fun reading but an optional purchase.?Patrick J. Brunet, Western Wisconsin Tech. Coll. Lib., La Crosse
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Louis Rukeyser has been one of America's most respected voices when it comes to economics and investing. His PBS show, Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser, is a long-running hit. One of the things fans enjoy the most about the show is Rukeyser's ability to assemble intriguing tidbits of information to form a reliable economic forecast. His book of lists is a great way to get your hands on some of the same facts and stats."--Rocky Mountain News
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He was probably just funning us,
This review is from: Louis Rukeyser's Book of Lists: The Best, the Worst and the Funniest from the Worlds of Business, Finance and Politics (Paperback)
Some amusing stuff, marred by contributor William E. Simon's neanderthal offerings, e.g., "multiculturalism" as one of the "Most Destructive Ideas in Public Life" along with "No-fault divorce" and "The welfare state," etc. His list of "God's Greatest Gifts to Mankind" includes Jesus Christ, heaven, the USA and the Bible, no kidding.Initially I thought that Rukeyser had lost a few I.Q. points, but then I realized that he did include "the worst" in the title. Sometimes the way to really embarrass people is to just quote them.
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