What We Are Reading Today: Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone

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Updated 24 October 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone

Authors: John W. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai

We interact with the financial system every day, whether taking out or paying off loans, making insurance claims, or simply depositing money into our bank accounts. 

Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone exposes how this system has been corrupted to serve the interests of financial services providers and their cleverest customers—at the expense of ordinary people.

John Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai diagnose the ills of today’s personal finance markets in the US and across the globe, looking at everything from short-term saving and borrowing to loans for education and housing, financial products for retirement, and insurance.

They show how the system is “fixed” to benefit those who are wealthy and more educated while encouraging financial mistakes by those who are aren’t, making it difficult for regular consumers to make sound financial decisions and disadvantaging them in some of the most consequential economic transactions of their lives.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Updated 15 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Environmental attorney Christen Civiletto relates how the major chemical kingpins of the 20th century relentlessly and indiscriminately laid waste to Niagara Falls in her eye-opening, harrowing, intimate new book, “Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls.”

Expertly interweaving environmental crime, history, and memoir, “Thundering Waters” exposes the astonishing story of exploitation and ongoing abuse lurking in the shadows of one of the world’s most treasured natural wonders.