Doug Henwood, _Wall Street_ (Verso, œ---) Have you ever wondered what the capitalist press' financial pages go on about; or for that matter, their front pages? Like his invaluable newsletter _Left Business Observer_, Doug Henwood's _Wall Street_ provides leftists with a decoder ring to the arcane language of finance and money. While the usual market ideologues insist that financial markets always bring with them a rational allocation of resources, critiques in leftist circles have often settled for a much too superficial analysis: finance as simply parasitical upon the "real economy." Henwood provides a critical analysis of both the internal workings and ideologies of financial capital, of a sort rarely seen in socialist writers. While simultaneously providing a general introduction to the semi-technical details of capitalist economic theory, Henwood also shows what no economics text book will: the ways in which economic theory, and the practice of speculative finance, further specific class interests. Throughout _Wall Street_, Henwood's writing is as witty as it is clear; as both serious and difficult as his subject is, one cannot help but laugh through reading _Wall Street_ - David Mertz