This is how we got to where we are; so, how do we get out of here?. Niall Ferguson again here brings us a history that is informative, entertaining and sobering. Being published in the midst...
Alice Schroeder’s The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life might well be one of the most important books you will ever read -- particularly in a period when the world's va...
TERRIBLE. Not good: will I finish it? Won't I? Guess I'll have to if I want to assess fairly, but it'll be hard work. Arrogance seeps through every word and, at the end of the day, he's repe...
Rampant speculation. Record trading volumes. Assets bought not because of their value but because the buyer believes he can sell them for more in a day or two, or an hour or two. Welcome t...
Worth it. I got the impression that Peston was urged to put out a book quickly, so he used a lot of his old archive material (Green, M and S etc). But it's worth it as there are some good ch...
Buy the expanded edition. This book first arrived in a blizzard of publicity back in 2005. Now 4 years on, it has been re-released in a revised and expanded edition with an extra 90 pages of...
Yes but.... Readable, passionate, but... if true, the latest financial crash would have seen another swift extension of market power. But does govt control or ownership of the banks, talk of...
Strange that this book won the award because it is not good.. I'm not a professional finance wizzard but I am a well educated citizen of the world with a keen interest in the sector. I enjoy...
What do babysitting coops and liquidity traps have in common? Lots, according to Paul Krugman. In The Return of Depression Economics, the MIT professor looks at the alarming string of financ...
Cool Book. This book is really clear in showing the practicalities of project management. I like the way its structured into chapters like: planning, risk & issue mgmt, quality, leading eff...
