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Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America is a 2010 book by American political journalist Matt Taibbi about the events that led to the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, written by Burton Gordon Malkiel, a Princeton University economist, is a book on the subject of stock markets which popularized the random walk hypothesis. Malkiel argues that asset prices typically exhibit signs of a random walk , and thus one cannot consistently outperform market averages .
On July 11, 2014 in an essay published in the Wall Street Journal [4] [5] and slightly later in his blog, Bill Gates proclaimed Business Adventures, recommended to him by Warren Buffett, as "the best business book I've ever read." [6] The prose is superb: reading Brooks is a supreme pleasure.
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, also known as Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, is a non-fiction book by Andrew Ross Sorkin chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators. [1]
Here are our top picks for stock market and Wall Street movies that every investor should watch. Each straddles the line between education and entertainment — and doesn’t skimp on either. 1.
The book is based upon a series of articles written by the authors for The Wall Street Journal. [1] The book was made into a 1993 made-for-TV movie by HBO, also called Barbarians at the Gate. The book centers on F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco, who planned to buy out the rest of the Nabisco shareholders.
Investors breathed a sigh of relief on this day in 1929. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) staged a strong recovery rally after two days of losses following an all-time market high.
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown is a 2010 book written by economist Simon Johnson and historian James Kwak. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to economist C. Fred Bergsten , the book offers an analysis of the 2007–2008 financial crisis .