Personal Finance for Dummies. Since moving to the US I don't know how anything financial works and since I've been here 15 years, figured it was about time. (=
Finally finished book five of Game of Thrones.
can't wait to get there!
Hah, try and read slow enough so you're done when book six is out because
five ends with more cliffhangers than a rock climbing convention at the grand canyon.
The New Empire of Debt by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin. Written in 2009 it explains the geopolitical and macroeconomic forces over the last 100 years that produced our real estate bubble and the 2008 financial crisis. The authors can be a bit snarky in their "I told you so" way, but the book is pretty funny to read (until the reality of what the Federal reserve has done to reduce the value of the dollar by 95% over the last 100 years)