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: ‘Tectonic Geodynamics’

Updated 08 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Tectonic Geodynamics’

Authors: Thorsten Becker and Claudio Faccenna

Over the past half century, major achievements have been made in the study of Earth’s surface structure and kinematics and the internal dynamics of the lithosphere and mantle.

Many of these advances have relied on the integration of data and models from plate tectonics and geodynamics, yet traditional divisions persist in how these two disciplines are taught and practiced. 

This textbook bridges the gap, connecting geophysical and geological approaches to understand the physical processes that shape our planet’s evolution.