Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The game is rigged, and the grass roots of America know it. Increasingly, the rewards have gone to the top while the risks have been borne by middle- and lower-income people. #2 The old view was that anyone could make it in America with enough guts and gumption. But now, according to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, a majority of Americans believe the nation's wealth should be more evenly distributed. #3 The American economy is in trouble because so much income and wealth have been going to the top that the rest of us no longer have the purchasing power to keep it going. #4 The higher you go in corporate America, the less relationship there is between risk and reward. executives whose pay is linked to the value of their company's shares protect their wallets by simultaneously betting on the prices of their company's shares dropping.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The train that transported the Orient Express passengers left from the Gare de l'Est just after 18:30 every Tuesday evening. The train's sixteen elegant wagon-lits were pulled by a steam-powered locomotive. The train's attitude of optimism was widespread in the early twentieth century. #2 The Orient Express crossed the French frontier at Strasbourg, and passengers could see the snow-fields of the northern Alps reflected in the sky, pink and pastel, gashed by gold. #3 The cause of the First World War was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. Their murder was an accident, but their nationalististic motives were clear. #4 The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was an insult to the honor of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and it was both a threat and a promise of war. The Austro-Hungarian government considered the assassination an insult to its honor and a threat to its security.