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In Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back, Junheng Li writes about her journey from China to America, shattering conventional wisdom along the way. Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back is the remarkable story of how one woman has Read More …
For decades, young people have dreamed about their first jobs on Wall Street — the first-year six-figure paycheck, the prestige, and an entrée into vaunted halls of some of the most hailed banks. But what is it like in reality? “Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits” a new book by Read More …
Payback Time is the compelling new thriller from the bestselling author of Cityboy and Just Business takes us on a City crime full of questions, wit and suspense. When City high-flyer Bridget, recently fired from her bank, is found dead outside her high-rise apartment, her colleagues assume she’s committed suicide. Cityboy Steve Jones is outraged Read More …
The City Dealer is the gripping tale of a whistleblower in The City, and the devastating consequences An exciting, unpredictable story of financial intrigue, intensely atmospheric and absorbing, with humour and romance. Clive Pitt is the talented banker cherry-picked for a career in the City of London. While handling a merger, started by a significant Read More …
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison by Belfort, Jordan, is the follow-up to the bestselling The Wolf of Wall Street, now a major motion picture. In the 1990s Jordan Belfort became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper. He was the Read More …
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 …