Book Review: Deep Value
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David Merkel
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:39 AM EDT
This is a book that starts with a simple premise: buy stocks at a fraction of the per share intrinsic value of the company, conservatively calculated. Neat idea, huh, and it is called value investing.
Blanchard & Krugman Are Trying To Understand Effective Demand
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Angry Bear
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Monday, September 1, 2014 8:05 AM EDT
I watch as grand economists explain the current economy… in particular, Olivier Blanchard and Paul Krugman. They miss the eventual fight of labor to increase their share…
Understanding Piketty, Part 4
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Angry Bear
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Friday, August 29, 2014 3:58 AM EDT
We now come to the exciting conclusion of Thomas Piketty’s monumental work, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. This is not an exaggeration: the final part of the book contains findings that I consider to be simply bombshells in their significance.
Book Review: Hormegeddon
Article By:
Casey Research
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Monday, August 25, 2014 2:15 PM EDT
Is our civilization suffering from too much of many good things and headed for a catastrophic correction or collapse?
Book Review: Investor Behavior
Article By:
David Merkel
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Friday, August 22, 2014 3:26 AM EDT
Ordinarily, I read all of the books that I review, but when I don’t, I tell my readers. This book I started to read, but I found it so dry that I started skimming it. It’s not that I don’t know the material; it is that I do know it.
Book Review: How To Avoid Financial Tangles
Article By:
Bankers Anonymous
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Friday, August 15, 2014 4:16 PM EDT
If you ever read any novels by Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, or Charles Dickens you quickly realize that the most important goal of 19th Century English life was securing – through a fortunate birth or a strategic marriage – a steady income based on the rents of private property.
Helen Davis Chaitman Reviews In Bed With Wall Street
Article By:
Larry Doyle
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Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:03 PM EDT
I truly appreciate reading the thoughts of highly intelligent professionals. I appreciate even more reading the thoughts of those highly intelligent professionals who stand up and speak out in courageous fashion on the serious issues of the day.
Understanding Piketty, Part 1
Article By:
Angry Bear
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Thursday, August 14, 2014 4:56 AM EDT
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most important book on economics published in this century.
Helen Davis Chaitman Reviews "In Bed With Wall Street."
Article By:
Ilene Carrie
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:29 PM EDT
Renowned attorney and author Helen Davis Chaitman gives Larry Doyle's book "In Bed with Wall Street" a very favorable review.
The Davis Discipline – A Good Book And An Amazing Life
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Bankers Anonymous
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Friday, August 1, 2014 3:29 PM EDT
The Banker recommends reading John Rothchild's "The Davis Discipline." Learn about how Shelby M.C. Davis accumulated extraordinary wealth. Never heard of Shelby M.C. Davis? Read on.
Book Review: Surveillance Nation
Article By:
David Merkel
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 6:47 AM EDT
We need to be concerned about what data the government gathers on us, because it may infringe upon our constitutional rights.
Fatal Risk: Beach Reading - A Great Book To Start Even If You Don't Quite Finish
Article By:
Bronte-Capital
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:37 AM EDT
For me (and because I was familiar with the broad details of the crisis anyway) the best book of the crisis is Roddy Boyd’s Fatal Risk.
In this article: AIG
Book Review: Reducing The Risk Of Black Swans
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David Merkel
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Friday, July 25, 2014 8:25 AM EDT
This is a very short book. I read the whole thing in 40 minutes. It has one main idea: what if you could create a less variable portfolio that returns as much as the traditional 60% S&P 500, 40% Barclays Aggregate blend? Wouldn’t you want that?
Book Review: Panic, Prosperity, And Progress
Article By:
David Merkel
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Friday, July 25, 2014 5:03 AM EDT
This book will point out that how an asset is held will make a difference in its future performance. When there is not a lot of debt behind an asset, there may be good prospects.
Book Review: The Automatic Millionaire By David Bach
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Bankers Anonymous
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Friday, July 25, 2014 3:30 AM EDT
A few weeks back I sent out a proposal to few prospective agents, expecting at least one would recognize the genius – and their own self-interested business opportunity – in my personal finance book proposal.
Book Review: The Risk Wise Investor
Article By:
David Merkel
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 4:30 PM EDT
What do you think about first when you look at an investment? Do you think of how much you might make, or how much you might lose?