Category: Books

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3 Responses to “Recommended Investment Books”

1. alex_sebastian says:

   November 20, 2008 at 9:47 pm

   First off, of the books I have read on this list, Freakonomics does not compare. I was so infuriated by the book that I actually sat down and wrote a lengthy letter to the author outlining the various errors in his reasoning, some of which rendered entire chapters of his book irrelevant. I am not getting back into it, but that book should be reread and its inclusion on the list reevaluated IMO.

   Also, since everyone cares, I think to exclude Nassim Taleb’s second book: The Black Swan from this list is also an important oversight. The discussion of the global financial system is disturbingly accurate…
2. bondjel says:

   December 11, 2008 at 5:34 pm

   Here’s a book i DON’T SEE MENTIONED BY YOU THAT IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST by an MIT long-time expert on the great depression and business panics: “Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises”(Wiley Investment Classics) (Paperback) by Charles P. Kindleberger. Just the chapter on Fueling the Flames: The Expansion of Credit is worth the book.
3. lunatic fringe says:

   December 12, 2008 at 10:28 am

   I’ve read a good many of those books and agree with your inclusion of many of them on the “recommended list. But as someone who threw out the “buy and hold” strategy as being a method for people who truly don’t understand markets or risk, Siegel’s book is currently acting as a doorstop.