The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares.

The bezzle shrinks.” We are now at this stage of the cycle. Yet while the discovery of lies is shocking, it will inevitably confuse our understanding of the boom and bust.

The bezzle of the current bull market isn't stocked with Ponzi schemes and outright frauds, in my view. Rather, it is built on the notion that risky assets have become practically risk-free thanks ...

In this conversation with Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD, Doctorow presents his theory of mass platform collapse and his latest novel, "The Bezzle," a high-tech crime thriller about prison-tech and ...

In any case of embezzlement, there is a period when the embezzler has his gain and the victim feels no loss – a period of increased psychic wealth that John Kenneth Galbraith called "the bezzle." That ...

Galbraith described that increase in wealth as "the bezzle." In a delightful essay, Warren Buffett's business partner, Charlie Munger, pointed out that the concept can be extended much more widely.

As part of the fallout, Merryn Somerset Webb wrote in the Financial Times of how WeWork was an example of a term that John Kenneth Galbraith coined long ago: the bezzle. Galbraith developed the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The bezzle is shrinking. As markets fall, the skeletons hidden away in closets in the good times are being ...

The Financial Bezzle of the Western World is Lifting What Europe hasn't realized is that large parts of it are closer to being Argentina of 1999 versus a solvent "developed world" country ...

A useful and helpful side effect of the financial crisis is that the bezzle is falling. Originally Galbraith's phrase, it's akin to Warren Buffett's idea about who is swimming naked when the tide ...

Mr Galbraith continues: "Under these circumstances the rate of embezzlement grows, the rate of discovery falls off, and bezzle increases rapidly. In depression all this is reversed.