The official blog of Stathis Kassios for Business, Media, Economics & Arts

Ever wondered about global banking, trading and various financial products? Do you know all about bonds. equities, stocks, investment funds, short and long term contracts, credit default SWAPS (CDS), etc.?  Ever understood how the behavior of global markets can create an economic crisis like the one ''weak'' EU member countries have endured the past few years?  This is a highly suggested documentary. Only if you are curious enough to get a bitter glimpse of the global finance world and elite that affects your life more than you think it is.

This book by Tom Holland immediately caught my attention. Was I attracted by the darkish hard cover? The title ''Dominion, The Making of the Western Mind''? In any case, by reading a few pages, standing in a bookstore in Amsterdam, it took only a few minutes to decide this would be my next pick for reading a non-conventional book for the story of the making of the western mind since the birth of Christianity. And what a relief... Strongly suggested.  Here's an excerpt: '' Formed of a great confluence of traditions - Persian and Jewish, Greek and Roman, it has long survived the collapse of the empire from which it first emerged, to become, in the words of one Jewish scholar, 'the most powerful of hegemonic cultural systems in the history of the world'. In the Middle Ages, no civilisation in Eurasia was as congruent with a single dominant set of beliefs as was the Latin West with its own distintctive form of Christianity.' ' Order the book