Packed with data from dozens of academic studies, this book shows the hard facts about the failure of active management and the fund companies who profit from it despite the chronic underperformance.
Ya'alon, whose tour of duty as chief of staff was unceremoniously cut short by former prime minister Ariel Sharon in June 2005 due to his trenchant opposition to Sharon's planned withdrawal of IDF forces and Israeli civilians from the Gaza Strip, has written a book that sets out the facts of life clearly, credibly and passionately.
But Japan's government says the book contains disrespectful descriptions and distortions of the facts .
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It is one of the merits of this book that it lets the facts speak for themselves.
In fact, the first third of the book might as well be an annotated resume for Poizner, a recitation of facts with little or no real feeling, color or introspection.
See my latest book, The Power of Passive Investing, for all the facts and figures on index fund investing.
The more interesting bits of the book tend to be thrown in almost as incidental facts dictating Britain's momentous choice.
Mr Carter's denials that the book is in large part autobiographical fly in the face of the fictionalised facts.
There are lots of good ways to tick people off in a book: scandalous facts, inflammatory ideas and unmentionable truths are all good ones.
The facts of this case are prime reading material for any law school case book.
"As they say, nature abhors a vacuum, and the mind abhors chance, " says Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society and author of "The Believing Brain, " a book on how humans seem hardwired to find patterns in disparate facts and unconnected, often innocent coincidences.
This is a straightforward recital of the facts -- a more detailed portrait of his time in Massachusetts can be found in the essential book "The Real Romney, " written by two Boston Globe reporters, Michael Kranish and Scott Helman.
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