Upton Sinclair: The Moneychangers - An Historical Novel Of The Financial Crisis Of 1907
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Jesses-Cafe-Americain
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 2:34 AM EDT
It had all worked out beautifully, according to the schedule. The stock market was falling to pieces—some of the leading stocks were falling several points between transactions, and Wyman and Hegan and the Oil and Steel people were hammering the market and getting ready for the killing.
Book Review: Frank Newman's "Freedom From National Debt"
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Global Economic Intersection
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8:10 PM EDT
The book focuses on U.S. treasuries and popular misconceptions of the public. With a slim 77 pages it is a quick read, but I did found myself in strong disagreement with one chapter in particular.
Bad Business Is Good Business
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Rolf Norfolk
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Friday, July 11, 2014 3:12 AM EDT
I'm reading Michael Crichton's "Airframe" (1996) and it contains a passage that has resonances far beyond the airline industry.
The Katsuyama Revolution Continues
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Bankers Anonymous
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Monday, July 7, 2014 12:41 PM EDT
The Wall Street Journal carries an update this morning on the main protagonist of Michael Lewis’ recent book Flash Boys, Brad Katsuyama and his newly launched exchange known as the Investor’s Exchange (IEX).
Book Review: Flash Boys By Michael Lewis
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Bankers Anonymous
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Saturday, June 28, 2014 3:09 PM EDT
Michael Lewis wrote Flash Boys to alert the non-finance world about the scourge of high frequency traders front-running investors and fracturing traditional capital markets. Here’s my beginning list of further questions to explore and answer after reading Flash Boys.
Book Review: All The Math You Need To Get Rich
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Bankers Anonymous
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:09 AM EDT
I learned from my wife the concept of the “feedback sandwich,” by which she means if you want to give someone an important piece of critical advice, it’s often most strategic to cushion the blow with a compliment to start, and a compliment to finish, with the criticism nestled in between.
Book Review: Inside The Black Box
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Bankers Anonymous
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Sunday, June 1, 2014 4:35 PM EDT
I read Rishi Narang’s Inside the Black Box as a kind of primer on quantitative trading, in advance of reading Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys. Narang provides a simplified ‘how to understand’ or ‘how to evaluate’ quantitative trading firms.
Sheila Bair Recommends Geithner’s Book, Warns Of Future Bailouts. Instant Classic
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Larry Doyle
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:10 AM EDT
Those watching the Wall Street-Washington regulatory battles over the years are well aware that there is no love lost between former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and former FDIC chair Sheila Bair.
Tim Geithner And The Wall Street Bailout Redux
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Robert Reich
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:50 AM EDT
Timothy Geithner’s new book about the financial crisis, “Stress Test,” is basically an argument that the Wall Street bailout succeeded.
A Load Of Bull
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Tim Richards
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Monday, May 12, 2014 7:20 AM EDT
The book, Investing Psychology: The Effects of Behavioral Finance on Investment Choice and Bias (Wiley Finance), is a review of the current state of behavioral finance for the non-expert – a task born out of hope as much as expectation...
Book Review: The Gold Cartel By Dimitri Speck
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Acting-Man
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014 3:40 AM EDT
Dimitri Speck is an expert on commodities markets who may actually be familiar to many of our readers as the creator of seasonal charts (which incidentally are the statistically most accurate seasonal charts available).
In this article: GLD
Thomas Piketty’s Sensational New Book
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Global Economic Intersection
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Monday, April 28, 2014 7:58 AM EDT
Thomas Piketty, a 42-year-old economist from French academe has written a hot new book: Capital in the Twenty-First Century. A recent review describes Piketty as the man "who exposed capitalism's fatal flaw."
Capital In The 21st Century Discussion At The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Friday, April 25, 2014 4:53 AM EDT
The French economist Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) discussed his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century at the Graduate Center. In this landmark work, Piketty argues that the main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values.
Book Review: Words And Money By Andre Schiffrin
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Bankers Anonymous
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Monday, April 7, 2014 11:20 AM EDT
André Schiffrin, the author of Words and Money, has spent a lifetime firmly in the traditional print media camp as a publisher (Pantheon Books), founder of a publisher (New Press), and author.
Book Review: Think And Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill
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Bankers Anonymous
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Thursday, April 3, 2014 3:50 AM EDT
Can you simultaneously find something personally un-appealing, yet respect its effectiveness, when considered on its own terms?
Michael Lewis On The Daily Show
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James Quinn
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014 12:06 PM EDT
James Quinn shares this video of Michael Lewis discussing his new book "Flash Boys" and High Frequency Trading with John Stewart on the Daily Show.