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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story
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Include books by the same authorWhen Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Roger Lowenstein · 281 pages
"John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best - and the brainiest - bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. Then, in 1991, in the wake of a scandal involving one of
F.I.A.S.C.O.: Guns, Booze and Bloodlust - The Truth About High Finance
Frank Partnoy · 254 pages
F.I.A.S.C.O. is an insider's diary, a shocking education in the jungle of high finance in the 1990s from New York to Tokyo. It tracks the progress of a young Morgan Stanley salesman as he learns the ropes of this sophisticated jungle, where billions of dollars are lost in the creation and trading of securities so unlikely and so complicated that almost nobody - certainly not the unwary or underedu
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis · 320 pages
Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.
Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
Satyajit Das · 343 pages
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby · 482 pages
Based on unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews, economist/journalist Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of 21st century capitalism. Ken Griffin started
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson · 351 pages
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast.In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDo
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder · 1,255 pages
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 312 pages
"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church."--Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Sheelah Kolhatkar · 368 pages
"Steven A. Cohen is a Wall Street legend. Born into a middle class family in a decidedly upper class suburb on Long Island, he was unpopular in high school and unlucky with girls. Then he went off to Wharton, and in 1992 launched the hedge fund SAC Capital, which grew into a $15 billion empire. He cultivated an air of mystery and reclusiveness--at one point, owned the copyright to almost every pic
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
Scott Patterson, Mike Chamberlain · 337 pages
"Beware of geeks bearing formulas." --Warren Buffett In March of 2006, the world's richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, an eccentric, whip-smart whiz kid who'd
Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham, David L. Dodd · 770 pages
Security Analysis is often referred to as the bible of value investing. It has been described by Warren Buffett as the best investment book he has ever read. Originally written in the 30's by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, it has been updated over the years, and remains relevant in the age of electronic trading.
Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports
Howard M. Schilit · 240 pages
Techniques to uncover and avoid accounting frauds and scamsInflated profits . . . Suspicious write-offs . . . Shifted expenses . . . These and other dubious financial maneuvers have taken on a contemporary twist as companies pull out the stops in seeking to satisfy Wall Street. Financial Shenanigans pulls back the curtain on the current climate of accounting fraud. It presents tools that anyone wh
The Number
Alex Berenson · 288 pages
Examines how companies have put too much emphasis on "the number," companies' quarterly earnings, and lost track of their true purpose of building profititable businesses, which has led to accounting fraud and the recent corporate scandals.
The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
Jason Kelly
The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It
Jamie Bartlett · 320 pages
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond
Bruce C.N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, Michael van Biema · 316 pages
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
Kurt Eichenwald · 776 pages
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
Howard Marks · 180 pages
This book explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Utilizing passages from his memos to illustrate his ideas, Marks teaches by example, detailing the development of an investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of investing and the perils of the financial world. Brilliantly applying insight to today's volatile market
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
Connie Bruck · 385 pages
During the '80s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham created the corporate raiders. He was the billionaire Junk Bond King. But, in the corner stood the U.S. District Attorney waiting to file criminal and racketeering charges.
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
Daniel Ammann · 302 pages
Beating the Street
Peter Lynch, John Rothchild · 318 pages
The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund
Anita Raghavan · 493 pages