Full Title: Tail Risk Killers: How Math, Indeterminacy, and Hubris Distort Markets Author: Jeff McGinn Publisher/Date: McGraw-Hill (2012) List Cost/Pages: $35 Hardcover / 384 pages Cover Notes: The world does not unfold according to a fixed set of rules. It is a dynamical system whose evolution looks like a bell curve with fat “tails.” The same is true of financial markets. [...]
Full Title: Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons from Wall Street Four Bear Bottoms Author: Russell Napier Publisher/Date: Harriman House (2009) List Cost/Pages: $35 Hardcover / 330 pages Cover Notes: How does one spot the bottom of a bear market? What brings a bear to its end? There are few more important questions to be answered in modern finance. Financial market [...]
Full Title: Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World's Largest Derivatives Exchange Author: Erika Olson (Twitter @ZSGame) Publisher/Date: Wiley (2010) List Cost/Pages: $28 Hardcover / 256 pages Cover Notes: In 2007, a stranger-than-fiction multibillion-dollar bidding war for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) erupted between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Atlanta’s IntercontinentalExchange (ICE). Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the [...]
Full Title: The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up When the Market is Down Author: Peter D. Schiff Publisher/Date: Wiley (2008) List Cost/Pages: $20 Hardcover / 304 pages Cover Notes: Written by seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff-author of the bestselling book Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic [...]
Full Title: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets Author: Nassim Taleb Publisher/Date: Random House (2008) List Cost/Pages: $28 Hardcover / 368 pages Cover Notes: This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which [...]