Simon & Schuster / Business & economics

The Roaring 2000'S: Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in History

by Harry S. Dent

In his bestselling book, The Great Boom Ahead, published in 1993, Harry Dent, one of the world's most prescient economic prognosticators, stood practically alone in forecasting a new age of prosperity emerging...

Cold Case Squad

by Edna Buchanan

"Like all things good and bad in the world, it began with a woman..."

And so begins the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's Cold Case Squad, a new suspense novel that features a special homicide unit that breathes...

The Rent Is Too Damn High

by Matthew Yglesias

From prominent political thinker and widely followed Slate columnist, a polemic on high rents and housing costs-and how these costs are hollowing out communities, thwarting economic development, and rendering...

It's Still the Economy, Stupid: George W. Bush, The GOP's CEO

by Paul Begala

When he took office in 2001, George W. Bush inherited the strongest economy in American history. He inherited the largest federal budget surplus in American history -- and the prospect of paying off the entire...