Book Review: The Intelligent Investor
I never intend Bankers Anonymous as a “How to invest” site,1 but B$A readers may safely approach The Intelligent Investor as a “How Not to Invest”
I never intend Bankers Anonymous as a “How to invest” site,1 but B$A readers may safely approach The Intelligent Investor as a “How Not to Invest”
Most of the books I review on Bankers Anonymous purport to give insight, for the non-financier, into how Wall Street works, a main theme for
The book cover – featuring a view of planet Earth presumably from a heavenly vantage point – offers the first hint that William D. Cohan’s
Back in College, in social science classes, we learned never to rely on cultural explanations. Professors excised culturally deterministic phrases from our analysis: “The Spanish
In one obvious respect, The Big Short follows Michael Lewis’s winning formula for a blockbuster book on sports or finance: character sketches so compelling, funny,
You may, like me, be curious about what happened during the Great Credit Crunch. You may, like me, have the feeling we reached a financial
I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civil society. For reals. It’s also really fun for me.
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