Michael Silverstein, a former senior editor with Bloomberg News, has written a dozen books, serious and comic, fiction and non-fiction, in poetry and prose, on a variety of subjects ranging from politics, to the financial derivatives market, to the environment, to solar energy, to parking ticketing. His work includes three comic novels and one alternative history novel. Literally hundreds of his articles and Op Ed pieces have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Constitution, Christian Science Monitor, et. al. He’s been a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator on National Public Radio. Favorable reviews of his past writing have appeared in media such as The New York Post, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, etc.
The Devil's Dictionary Of Wall Street by Michael SilversteinAmbrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary was a delightful collection of quirky definitions, naughty verse and satirical pieces skewering an overblown and profoundly corrupt Gilded Age. Michael Silverstein's new The Devil's Dictionary Of Wall Street applies the same approach to today's overblown markets and their puffed up denizens. Its hun