Latest Credit Bubble Stocks Book Reviews

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5/5 - "Hall of Fame" - timeless

• Panic: The Betrayal of Capitalism by Andrew Redleaf and Richard Vigilante
• The Sleuth Investor: Uncover the Best Stocks Before They Make Their Move by Avner Mandelman
• Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors by Stephen Moyer
• Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
• Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression (Second Edition) by Robert R. Prechter, Jr.
• Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett

5/5 - These are just "Must Read"

• Stop the Clock: The Optimal Anti-Aging Strategy by P. D. Mangan
• The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky, Chapter One
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• The New Evolution Diet: What Our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Teach Us about Weight Loss, Fitness, and Aging by Arthur De Vany
• Moods and Markets: A New Way to Invest in Good Times and in Bad by Peter Atwater
• The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works by Eric Falkenstein
• Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
• The Farming Game by Bryan Jones
• The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
• The Shipping Man by Matthew McCleery
• Letters from A Self-Made Merchant To His Son by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago
• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu [movie] 
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre [movie]
• The Martian by Andy Weir 
• Edward Tufte's work

4.5/5

• We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now by Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods
• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler

4/5

• Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes
• Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism by Jeff Gramm
• I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford by Richard Snow  
• The Big Score: Robert Friedland, INCO, And The Voisey's Bay Hustle by Jacquie McNish  
• Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics by Paul Ormerod
• By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission by Charles Murray
• Ling: The Rise, Fall and Return of a Texas Titan (1972) by Stanley H Brown
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner  
• Seeds of Wealth: Five Plants That Made Men Rich by Henry Hobhouse  
• Traders, Guns and Money by Satyajit Das
• The Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds, 5th Edition
• Viking Raid: A Robert Fairchild Novel by Matthew McCleery
• The Frackers by Gregory Zuckerman 
• A Colossal Failure of Common Sense by Lawrence McDonald
• Last Train Home [movie]
• Review of Where Is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to Fermi's Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life?
• Wilder Shores of Marx
• Review of The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson
• Think Twice by Michael Mauboussin
• Investment Fables: Exposing the Myths of "Can't Miss" Investment Strategies by Aswath Damodaran
• The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham: Selected Writings of the Wall Street Legend by Janet Lowe
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets
• The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies by Edward Jay Epstein
• The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview [movie]

3.5/5

• Maritime Economics 3e by Martin Stopford
• The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
• Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production by Vaclav Smil
• The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by HW Brands
• Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick

3/5

• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
• Prechter's Perspective: Conversations with Bob Prechter, Legendary Market Theorist by Peter Kendall
• Your Worst Poker Enemy by Alan N. Schoonmaker
• War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin
• A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters by Scott Reynolds Nelson
• Twilight in the Desert by Matt Simmons
• SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future by Richard Martin
• The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
• How's Your Drink? by Eric Felten
• Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance by Perry Mehrling
• Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years by Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui
• Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market: How to Profit from the Current Municipal Credit Crisis and Earn Attractive Tax-Exempt Interest Income Hardcover by Triet Nguyen
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
• The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin
• The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson
• State of Fear by Michael Crichton
• The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia by David E. Hoffman
• Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren by Michael Gross
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
• Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs by Morton A. Meyers
• Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short Story by David Einhorn
• How to be a Billionaire: Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth by Martin Fridson  
• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
• An Economist Gets Lunch by Tyler Cowen
• Bankruptcy, Credit Risk, and High Yield Junk Bonds by Edward Altman
• Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander
• The 12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
• Review of Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics & Culture of Decline by Theodore Dalrymple
• William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker by D. E Clarke  
• The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh
• Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow
• The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough
• Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
• Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy: Predict and Avoid Bankruptcy, Analyze and Invest in Distressed Debt , 3rd Edition by Edward Altman
• Benjamin Graham, Building a Profession: The Early Writings of the Father of Security Analysis
• The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Taleb
• American Railroads as Investments by Salomon Frederik van Oss
• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
• The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

2/5

• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
• My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance by Emanuel Derman
• Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from Its Trillion-Dollar Meltdown by Gillian Tett
• Inside the House of Money by Steven Drobny
• Oil Notes by Rick Bass
• The Evolution of Technical Analysis: Financial Prediction from Babylonian Tablets to Bloomberg Terminals
• Risk Arbitrage by Guy Wyser-Pratte  
• Smaller, Faster, Lighter, Denser, Cheaper by Robert Bryce  
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail —but Some Don't by Nate Silver 
• As I See It: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty 
• Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Taleb
• Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938 by John Brooks
• There's Always Something to Do: The Peter Cundill Investment Approach
• Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom by Brian Black
• Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World
• No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets by Michael Steinhardt

1/5

• The Outsiders by William Thorndike
• Inside Job [movie]
• W's Awful New Book
• Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip