Reviews for Finance Your Retirement: A Complete Guide to Spending, Saving and Making the Most of Your Pe...

The average rating for Finance Your Retirement: A Complete Guide to Spending, Saving and Making the Most of Your Pe... based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-29 00:00:00 Joseph Hardisty Martin Wolf is known to be "one of the" globalist..promoting free trade and all..this book seems to use a lot of technical terms and numbers, and data especially to prove the unbalance of the world economies..but looking closely..when the title has an intention to fix global finance, it simply does not..Martin tends to shift a lot of focus on the developing nations such as China as one of the culprits that affect the world balance..but I thought he was the one asks for globalization in the first place just like Stiglitz...these are the people so called experts who promotes something without Plan B, so when SHTF, they are also the one came out to provide solutions..a very similar pattern with Thomas Friedman. Truth is that there is no fix when one promotes drastic market opening and with each countries public and economic policies are so different: intricate balance must be conducted without "hey I have solutions for you all"....

Review # 2 was written on 2017-07-05 00:00:00 R C Thompson Jr Martin Wolf proposes the development of national financial systems (long-term finance denominated in domestic currency) as a solution for global macroeconomic imbalances. This solution seems to make sense, especially for large emerging markets (small economies do not matter for global imbalances, anyway). The essence of finance is explained very simply and nicely. His writing style is ok, often clear, but not always. He uses a lot of statistical evidence, but sometimes he repeats the same argument over and over again. When I got the book (2nd edition, published in 2009 and 2010), I thought it was much more focused on the recent events (global financial crisis). Wolf must have tortured himself a few months after the first edition was published. In this 2nd edition he includes a final chapter on the crisis, which complements all his arguments. This actually makes it an interesting read.