Tag: financial crisis

  • Top 5 books of 2010

    Below are the five books I enjoyed most, or found to be most persuasive or positively influential, out of the few dozen I managed to read this year. These were not necessarily published in 2010 — they are included only if I actually read them during the course of the year. Three economics/investing books, one…

  • The Big Short : Michael Lewis

    Let me start out by saying this is one of the most important stories of our era, and Michael Lewis has done a masterful job of telling it. Watching the onion of Wall Street being peeled back by a handful of far-sighted and somewhat eccentric short sellers was the perfect way to frame this narrative.…