John Lee is one of the UK’s most successful private investors and wrote the My Portfolio column in the Financial Times for 14 years. Beginning with an investment pot of £125,000 in the early 1980s, by 2003 he had turned this into a thriving portfolio of over £1 million, and it has significantly increased in value since then. Using efficient Read More …

Economists have long been dangerously wrong about the nature of money, says Martin. In Money: The Unauthorised Biography, he argues that money is not, in essence, currency, used as a “means of exchange”. It is, on the contrary, a unit of value, a system of accounts and transferable credit. Indeed, “whilst all money is credit, Read More …

Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust is a resonant exploration of economic behaviour and its consequences. Like war, activity on the trading floor “consists of long stretches of Read More …

Many theorists believed a hundred years ago, just as they did at the beginning of our twenty-first century, that the world had reached a state of economic perfection, a never before seen condition of beneficial human interdependence that would lead to universal growth and prosperity. And yet the early years of the Weimar Republic in Read More …

With bracing clarity, Blinder shows us how the U.S. financial system, which had grown far too complex for its own good and far too unregulated for the public good, experienced a perfect storm beginning in 2007. When America’s financial structure crumbled, the damage proved to be not only deep, but wide. It took the crisis Read More …

When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008, it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze, hundreds of thousands lost their jobs, living standards are still falling and Britons will be Read More …

Stephen D. King, Chief Economist and Global Head of Economics and Asset Allocation research at HSBC, was paged at an airport a few years ago. When he showed up at the information desk, the obviously disappointed attendant said, “Oh, you’re not the Stephen King that writes books.” “Yes, I am,” Mr. King responded, pulling a Read More …

The bestselling author of The Sellout tells the explosive story of the government’s crackdown on insider-trading networks—an investigation that has already racked up more than 60 convictions. In Circle of Friends,  Charles Gasparino, the award-wining financial journalist and one of Wall Street’s most knowledgeable observers follows government investigators and prosecutors as they pursue one of the most aggressive Read More …

The New York Times Bestseller, The Buy Side, is written by Turney Duff who worked on Wall Street since 1994, including at Morgan Stanley, the Galleon Group, Argus Partners, and J.L. Berkowitz. His book is a high adrenaline journey through the trading underworld, as well as a searing look at an after-hours Wall Street culture Read More …

After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta needed a new employer. He found a new job in New York City but lost that, too, when an ambulance mowed him down as he crossed the street on foot. In search of a way to cheer himself up while he recuperated in a wheelchair, Peta started Read More …