My favorite author strikes again!
Glenn Beck has apparently been reading up on one of my favorite authors: Thomas Sowell. Sowell just released a new book, "The Housing Boom and Bust" - and having read much of his other material, I can say his writing is thorough and detailed, yet accessible and understandable.
I highly recommend any work of Sowell's, but especially one so relevant to the issues we're facing today. This is a great "quick summary" video that includes snippets of Sowell discussing the housing market boom and bust:
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He has a really short book called "Cosmic Justice" that I thought was good. It's not about kids or economics! :-) In that one he discusses the opposing movements pushing for "equal justice under law" and "equal results under law", and he does a good job making his case that liberal judicial activists - as they push to enforce "equality" between any group, actually end up promoting and entrenching inequality in the law...