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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The followers of John C. Bogle have made simple communication about investing an art form. During its more than 20 years of existence, the Bogleheads have moved from a loose association of dedicated investors to a formal website, Bogleheads.org. (The Bogleheads previously gathered online at the "Vanguard Diehards" message board on Morningstar.com.) The Bogleheads website now attracts an incredible 1.5 million visits per month and as many as 1,500...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. The astronomical leverage at investment banks and their hedge fund and private equity clients virtually guarantees massive disruption in global markets.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain trading strategies make money - and why they sometimes don't. -- from back cover.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The interaction of man and machine can make our lives easier. But what will the world look like when algorithms control our hospitals, our roads, our culture, and our national security? It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills--and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Despite the thousands of articles and the millions of times that the word 'bubble' has been used in the business press, there still does not appear to be a cohesive theory or persuasive empirical approach with which to study 'bubble' and 'crash' conditions. This book presents a plausible and accessible descriptive theory and empirical approach to the analysis of such financial market conditions. It advances such a framework through application of...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Gives an expert's perspective on the debt markets, monetary policies, and quantitative easing, and helps explain the various issues surrounding sovereign debt, the Euro crisis, and austerity versus growth policies. Comprehensive in scope, this resource also offers an analysis of investment styles, from hedge funds to "long only" investments, as well as an in-depth look at corporate communication and its impact on markets and investments"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In An Extraordinary Time, acclaimed economic historian Marc Levinson recounts the global collapse of the postwar economy in the 1970s. While economists struggle to return us to the high economic growth rates of the past, Levinson counterintuitively argues that the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s were an anomaly; slow economic growth is the norm-no matter what economists and politicians may say. Yet these atypical years left the public with unreasonable...
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in the global economy will trigger a multi-trillion-dollar migration of wealth, tracing the fateful decisions that created this crisis-and outlines new rules of investing for the forward-thinking. From Wall Street to the White House, the fantasy of an eventual "return to normal" is still alive and well, nurtured by dangerously outdated theories. But the...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Critical, independent voices are seldom found within the citadels of international finance. That's what makes Nomi Prins unique. During fifteen years as an executive at skyscraping banks like Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers, Prins never lost her ability to see the broader picture. She walked away from the game in 2002 out of disgust with the burgeoning corporate corruption, just as its magnitude was becoming clear to the public. In...
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