Comments on: Recommended Investment Books

By: lunatic fringe

lunatic fringe — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:28:17 +0000

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.

By: bondjel

bondjel — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:34:36 +0000

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.

By: alex_sebastian

alex_sebastian — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:47:32 +0000

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…