The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means - Vince Cable

Vince Cable is a rarity among politicians. He has attained prominence despite seeming to lack the characteristics essential to political success: vanity, hypocrisy, self-glorification, slipperiness and overweening ambition. He has built an enviable reputation for foresight and clarity by the eccentric means of displaying those very qualities. The only reason he failed to become leader of his party, the Liberal Democrats, is that he modestly declined to stand. An economist by background, Cable was one of the few politicians - or economists for that matter - to forecast the current global financial upheaval. A book by him about that upheaval was ...  Read the complete review