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This business classic written by long-time New Yorker contributor John Brooks is an insightful and engaging you-are-there look into corporate and financial life in America, and now having been re-released in digital format, you can experience the enchanting tales on the ‘small screen’. From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, brings to life in vivid fashion Read More …
The markets have evolved at breakneck speed during the past decade, and change has accelerated dramatically since 2007’s disastrous regulatory “reforms.” An unrelenting focus on technology, hyper-short-term trading, speed, and volume has eclipsed sanity: markets have been hijacked by high-powered interests at the expense of investors and the entire capital-raising process. A small consortium of Read More …
The best-selling book from Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-first Century won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2014. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of Read More …
Michael Lewis Flash Boys has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Michael Lewis writes that, before he began working on Flash Boys, he had little interest in Read More …
Sure to be a revelation to even the savviest financial professional, Backstage Wall Street: An Insider’s Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments is a brutally honest look at the investment business from a veteran who’s seen it all. “Reformed” Wall Street insider Joshua M. Brown offers clear Read More …
On September 23, 1998, the boardroom of the New York Fed was a tense place. Around the table sat the heads of every major Wall Street bank, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and representatives from numerous European banks, each of whom had been summoned by the Fed to discuss the highly unusual Read More …
America’s fascination with the financial industry has produced more books than you could ever hope to read. That’s why we’ve put together a cheat sheet: the best 11 best books on Wall Street ever written. These books on Wall Street provide the big picture: the stories that mattered, the people behind them, and the deals and Read More …
A news-breaking account of the global stock market’s subterranean battles, Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market portrays the rise of the “bots”- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-manoeuvre the humans who’ve created them. Patterson begins Read More …
The updated paperback edition of Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge funds offering a rare glimpse at how today′s highest paid money managers approach their craft. Now with new commentary, author, Steve Drobny takes you even Read More …
The Little Book of Market Wizards: Lessons from the Greatest Traders provides an accessible look at the art of investing and how to adopt the practices of top professionals. What differentiates the highly successful market practitioners—the Market Wizards—from ordinary traders? What traits do they share? What lessons can the average trader learn from those who Read More …