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Hope to see you kids at today's LDM Fest
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originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Record establishedI nominate without fear of contradiction this thread has drifted further in contents from it's original purpose than any other thread in Disorder history.
The books described sound like a good read but I've been concentrating on reading about wall street and it's relationship to the financial mess we have in this country.
Me too.
Good ones so far:
Big Short
Too Big to Fail
Griftopia
Traders, Guns, and Money
The Devil's are All Here
Panic collection edited by Michael Lewis
The audio version of The Big short is highly entertaining. Call it Frontline for iPod.
Zachary Ross
Zachary Ross
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Record establishedI nominate without fear of contradiction this thread has drifted further in contents from it's original purpose than any other thread in Disorder history.
The books described sound like a good read but I've been concentrating on reading about wall street and it's relationship to the financial mess we have in this country.
Me too.
Good ones so far:
Big Short
Too Big to Fail
Griftopia
Traders, Guns, and Money
The Devil's are All Here
Panic collection edited by Michael Lewis
Good list; I've read the first three.
Check out 13 Bankers. The Quants was amusing but ultimately lame.
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Record establishedI nominate without fear of contradiction this thread has drifted further in contents from it's original purpose than any other thread in Disorder history.
The books described sound like a good read but I've been concentrating on reading about wall street and it's relationship to the financial mess we have in this country.
Me too.
Good ones so far:
Big Short
Too Big to Fail
Griftopia
Traders, Guns, and Money
The Devil's are All Here
Panic collection edited by Michael Lewis
Good list; I've read the first three.
Check out 13 Bankers. The Quants was amusing but ultimately lame.
Black Swan was lame too. Yeah, no shit normal distributions have infinite tails and most likely don't specify the risk appropriately. Everyone knows that (or should have).
Will check out 13 Bankers.
Fiasco and Roubini's book are next on deck.
Zachary Ross
Zachary Ross
Have you read Chris Whalen's Inflated? I've been meaning to get to that.
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
Have you read Chris Whalen's Inflated? I've been meaning to get to that.
No, but it is now on my wishlist.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Fiasco is very good and presages the counter-insurgency strategy Petraeus was later able to implement.
House of Cards was very good, though as a guy with a responsible position in an investment bank, reading it was like being a cheerleader watching a horror movie.
"NO! Don't go down in the basement!! Turn on the light!!!"
Or a bit like having poor impulse control and watching "Owning Mahowney."
"NO! Don't go down in the basement!! Turn on the light!!!"
Or a bit like having poor impulse control and watching "Owning Mahowney."
David M. Bueker
David M. Bueker
I'm glad I am not the only one that thought GG&S was a great replacement for Unisom.
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Fiasco is very good and presages the counter-insurgency strategy Petraeus was later able to implement.
Different Fiasco, the one I'm talking about is Frank Partnoy.
originally posted by SFJoe:
House of Cards was very good, though as a guy with a responsible position in an investment bank, reading it was like being a cheerleader watching a horror movie.
"NO! Don't go down in the basement!! Turn on the light!!!"
Or a bit like having poor impulse control and watching "Owning Mahowney."
Just made my list after that review. Anything that makes SFJoe feel like a cheerleader has got to be good.
Anyone else loving that image, BTW?
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
George Bush was a cheerleader, wasn't he?
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
George Bush was a cheerleader, wasn't he?
W. was, as was Ronald Reagan, FDR, Eisenhower and Trent Lott. Not to mention Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Or Samuel L. Jackson.
Zachary Ross
Zachary Ross
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Record establishedI nominate without fear of contradiction this thread has drifted further in contents from it's original purpose than any other thread in Disorder history.
The books described sound like a good read but I've been concentrating on reading about wall street and it's relationship to the financial mess we have in this country.
Me too.
Good ones so far:
Big Short
Too Big to Fail
Griftopia
Traders, Guns, and Money
The Devil's are All Here
Panic collection edited by Michael Lewis
Good list; I've read the first three.
Check out 13 Bankers. The Quants was amusing but ultimately lame.
Black Swan was lame too. Yeah, no shit normal distributions have infinite tails and most likely don't specify the risk appropriately. Everyone knows that (or should have).
Will check out 13 Bankers.
Fiasco and Roubini's book are next on deck.
You might also check out Jeff Madrick's Age of Greed. I'm just a few pages into it but it's already pretty great.
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Record establishedI nominate without fear of contradiction this thread has drifted further in contents from it's original purpose than any other thread in Disorder history.
The books described sound like a good read but I've been concentrating on reading about wall street and it's relationship to the financial mess we have in this country.
Me too.
Good ones so far:
Big Short
Too Big to Fail
Griftopia
Traders, Guns, and Money
The Devil's are All Here
Panic collection edited by Michael Lewis
Good list; I've read the first three.
Check out 13 Bankers. The Quants was amusing but ultimately lame.
Black Swan was lame too. Yeah, no shit normal distributions have infinite tails and most likely don't specify the risk appropriately. Everyone knows that (or should have).
Will check out 13 Bankers.
Fiasco and Roubini's book are next on deck.
You might also check out Jeff Madrick's Age of Greed. I'm just a few pages into it but it's already pretty great.
Just read, The Myth of the Rational Market.
Really fun read and hard to put down. Chronicles how the Chicago School became so pervasive, especially in Business Schools.
Zachary Ross
Zachary Ross
Cool, will check it out.