From the bookshelf

(A review of Rigged can be found here.)
The Barrel heard that this newly-released book was a #1 bestseller. It is...under the almost comically subdivided category of Business & Investing/Industries & Professions/Oil & Energy. What's funny is the number two book in that category is Daniel Yergin's The Prize, which was published when the first George Bush was in office. So there doesn't seem to be a lot of fresh competition.

What we first heard here at The Barrel was that Rigged was about the founding of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange. But if you look over the advertising blurbs on Amazon, it looks a lot more personal than that. In fact, the book also is a number 2 bestseller in the category of Business & Investing/Biography & History.

So we note the book here at The Barrel, because it's certainly a subject of recent buzz.