Book Reviews
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May 23, 2012
Beating the Business Cycle:
How to Predict and Profit from Turning Points in the Economy
By Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji
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May 14, 2012
A Modern Approach to Graham & Dodd Investing
By Thomas Au
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May 7, 2012
Financial Fine Print:
Uncovering a Company’s True Value
by Michelle Leder
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February 3, 2012
The Invisible Hands:
Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money
by Steven Drobny
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January 25, 2012
The Greatest Trades of All Time
by Vincent Veneziani
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December 21, 2011
US Securities Regulation
by Eduardo Vidal and Jan J.H. Joosten
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December 5, 2011
Oil 101
by Morgan Downey
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November 23, 2011
Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
by Nicholas Wapshott
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November 9, 2011
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
by Nouriel Roubini
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October 12, 2011
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
by Michael Lewis
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September 14, 2011
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure
by Tim Harford
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September 7, 2011
The Undercover Economist
by Tim Harford
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August 31, 2011
Confidence Game:
How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street’s Bluff
by Christine Richard
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August 17, 2011
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
by Peter Bevelin
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August 10, 2011
Unified Growth Theory
by Oded Galor
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August 3, 2011
Restructuring and Workouts: Strategies for Maximising Value
by Ben Larkin
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July 27, 2011
What Would Ben Graham Do Now?
A New Value Investing Playbook for a Global Age
by Jeffrey Towson
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July 20, 2011
The Conscious Investor:
Profiting from the Timeless Value Approach
by John Price
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July 13, 2011
Oil: A Beginner’s Guide
by Vaclav Smil
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Multi-Part Review
Financial Shenanigans:
How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports
by Howard M. Schilit and Jeremy Perler
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June 15, 2011
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
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June 1, 2011
The Little Book of Valuation:
How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock, and Profit
by Aswath Damodaran
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May 25, 2011
The Most Important Thing:
Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
by Howard Marks
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May 18, 2011
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
by Peter Kaufman
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May 11, 2011
Quality of Earnings:
The Investor’s Guide to How Much Money a Company is Really Making
by Thornton L. O’glove and Robert Sobel
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May 4, 2011
Accounting for Value
by Stephen Penman
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April 27, 2011
Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts
by James Valentine
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April 20, 2011
More Than You Know:
Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
by Michael Mauboussin
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April 13, 2011
Counterparty Credit Risk:
The New Challenge for Global Financial Markets
by Jon Gregory
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April 5, 2011
Endgame:
The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How It Changes Everything
by John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper
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March 21, 2011
Red Capitalism:
The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise
by Carl Walter and Fraser Howie
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March 16, 2011
Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance
by Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs and Bill Huyett
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March 12, 2011
Don’t Count On It!
Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism,
“Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes
by John Bogle
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March 1, 2011
The Warren Buffetts Next Door:
The World’s Greatest Investors You’ve Never Heard of
by Matthew Schifrin
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January 25, 2011
The Little Book of Sideways Markets
How to Make Money in Markets that Go Nowhere
by Vitaliy N. Katsenelson
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December 4, 2010
You Can Be A Stock Market Genius:
Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
by Joel Greenblatt
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November 27, 2010
Applied Value Investing:
The Practical Application of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett’s Valuation Principles
to Acquisitions, Catastrophe Pricing and Business Execution
by Joseph Calandro, Jr.
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September 1, 2010
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
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April 1, 2010
It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
by D. Michael Abrashoff
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August 8, 2008
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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August 4, 2008
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by Roger Lowenstein
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July 30, 2008
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
by Roger Lowenstein
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July 17, 2008
The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition
by Robert Hagstrom
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July 10, 2008
The Little Book of Value Investing
by Christopher Browne
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June 27, 2008
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
by Ian Ayres
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May 28, 2008
Fooled by Randomness:
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Multi-part Review
The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham
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