Intermarket Analysis is a bridge between TA and economics.
Simply and clearly written, the subject is expounded. There
are sufficient charts except for the last 3 chapters or so. Sam
Stovall's sector rotation is of particularinterest to me.

The idea can be repetitive but I do not mind it. The reasons
are firstly, itmakesreading easier (no need to flip back to
pprevious chapters) and secondly, it reinforces key ideas.

I have 2 questions. How high is hyperinflation and how low
constitutes deflation?

Any economist would consider markets related, often in very complex manner. This book takes up these theme and presents a lot of examples mainly from the 90s and onwards. The descriptions have an ad hoc feel to them. One is left wondering "so what?". In my view all this descriptive content has to lead up to some kind of useful theory for trading. Or at least an approach. This is unfortunately totally lacking. If markets are interrelated the easist way to show that is through correlation analysis. That is very crude but would be a beginning. The author could have provided past correlations in different periods so that the reader gets an understanding of what the relationships are and how they might change.

A lot of proprietary research is done in this area. Unfortunately it is not published and this book is probably the best available, for that reason I give it 3 starts. But once other books appearing this book can be passed over.

I have written several short reviews on trading books. The best way is to compare the score on the books I've read. Many reviews on amazon.com are just glorious 5 star reviews. I use all five categories; sorry but everything isn't "great". Books rated 5 are very good. Books rated 4 are good solid books well worth reading. Books rated 3 can be bought by some people who read a lot or have very specific needs. Books rated 1 or 2 I would not recommend buying or reading. Naturally all in my humble opinion.