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Readings in business, corporate finance, banking, accounting as well as the history of finance.

Readings in business, corporate finance, banking, accounting as well as the history of finance.

I also love finance. Not that bankers have done much to distinguish themselves in recent history. But understanding finance is a prerequisite to appreciating how so much of the world functions—how lives can be vastly improved but are so often made worse. It was during the 2008-2009 financial crisis that I was so shocked by how little people understood about what was happening. While my career in banking was over, my career in finance was just beginning.

Finance & Business


Accounting Robert Dixon/Harold Arnett
Ahead of the Curve Joseph H. Ellis
The Alchemy of Finance George Soros
All About Derivatives Michael Durbin
All About Stocks Esme Faerber
The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements White, Sondhi and Fried
Angel Investing for Entrepreneurs Mark van Osnabrugge
Animal Spirits George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
Applied Corporate Finance Aswath Damodaran
The Art of Asset Allocation David M. Darst
Bad Money Kevin Phillips
The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook Jonathan Golin
The Bank Director's Handbook Benton E. Gup
The Bankers' New Clothes Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig
Banking Regulation--Its Purpose, Implementation and Effects Kenneth Spong
Basic Economics Thomas Sowell
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains Antony Lewis
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism John C. Bogle
Beating the Business Cycle Lakshman Achuthan
Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts James J. Valentine, CFA
Beyond Diversification Sebastian Page
Biography of the Dollar Craig Karmin
The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bloomberg by Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg
The Bond Book Annette Thau
Bond Markets, Analysis and Strategies Frank Fabozzi
The Book of Satoshi Phil Champagne
Buffettology Mary Buffett
A Bull in China Jim Rogers
Capital Ideas Peter Bernstein
Capital Ideas Evolving Peter Bernstein
CEO Logic C. Ray Johnson
The Complete Guide to Publicity Joe Marconi
Contrarian Investment Strategies David Dreman
Corporate Finance Robert Hamilton
Corporations Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe
China Inc. Ted C. Fishman
Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance Janet M. Tavakoli
Confessions of a Street Addict James Cramer
Corporate Finance Aswath Damodaran
Corporate Governance John Colley et. al
Creating Shareholder Value Alfred Rappaport
Creative Cash Flow Reporting Charles Mulford & Eugene Comiskey
Credit Risk Measurement Anthony Saunders
Crisis Economics Noriel Roubini
Cryptoassets Burniske & Tatar
Damodaran on Valuation Aswath Damodaran
The Dark Side of Valuation Aswath Damodaran
Deals from Hell Robert F. Bruner
Deal Terms Alex Wilmerding
Defi and the Future of Finance Campbell Harvey et. al.
Diamond Dollars--The Economics of Winning in Baseball Vince Gennaro
Direct from Dell Michael Dell
The Directors' Handbook Thomas J. Dougherty
Distressed Debt Analysis Stephen G. Moyer
The Dollar Crisis Richard Duncan
Don't Count On It John C. Bogle
Dynamic Asset Allocation James Picerno
e CFO Read, Ross et al.
Economics Jeffrey Sachs
Economic Indicators Bernard Baumohl
The Economists' Hour--False Prophets, Free Markets, and the
Fracture of Society Binyamin Appelbaum
Efficiently Inefficient--How Smart Money Invest and Market
Prices are Determined Lasse Heje Pedersen
Endgame John Maudlin and Jonathan Tepper
The End of Poverty Paul Krugman
The Endowment Model of Investing Martin L. Leibowitz
The Essentials of Risk Management (2nd) Crouhy, Galai and Mark
Equity Asset Valuation Stowe, Robinson et. al
Equity Asset Valuation (2nd ed) Pinto, Henry et. Al
Essentials of Economics Young and O'Byrne
The Essentials of Finance and Accounting
for Nonfinancial Managers Edward Fields
EVA and Value-Based Management Walter Wessels
Expectations Investing Mauboussin & Rappaport
Fair Trade for All Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton
Fault Lines Raghuram G. Rajan
Fed-Watching Brian Kettell
Financial Accounting and Reporting Haskins, Ferris et al.
Financial Instruments & Institutions
Accounting and Disclosure Rules Stephen G. Ryan
Financial Intelligence Berman, Knight and Case
Financial Modeling third edition Simon Benninga
Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management Jack Alexander
Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis Stickney and Brown
Financial Shenanigans Howard Schilit
Finance for Nonfinancial Managers Shoffer, Shelly and Cooke
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni
The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing Pat Dorsey
Fixed Income Securities--Tools for Today's Markets Bruce Tuckman and Angel Serrat
Fixing Global Finance Martin Wolf
Fooled By Randomness Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Fortune Tellers Howard Kurtz
Franchise Value and the Price/Earnings Ratio Martin Leibowitz/Stanley Kogelman
Freakonomics Steven Levitt/Stephen Dubner
From Asian to Global Financial Crisis Andrew Sheng
The Future for Investors Jeremy Siegel
Getting off Track John B. Taylor
Good to Great Jim Collins
Greenspan's Bubbles William Fleckenstein
Guerilla Marketing Attack Jay Levinson
The Hard Thing About Hard Things--Building a Business
When There Are No Easy Answers Ben Horowitz
The Hollywood Economist Edward Jay Epstein
The Hong Kong Advantage Michael Enright
How the Economy Works Roger Farmer
How Finance Works--The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart
About the Numbers Mihir A. Desai
How to Read a Financial Report John A. Tracy
Inevitable Surprises Peter Schwartz
In Fed We Trust David Wessel
Inside the Yield Book Sidney Homer/Martin Leibowitz
The Intelligent Asset Allocator William Bernstein
The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham
Intuitive Biostatistics--A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking Harvey Motulsky
Investing Amid Low Expected Returns Antil Ilmanen
Investing in REITS (4th ed.) Ralph L. Block
Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management Frank Reilly/Keith Brown
Investment Banking—Valuation, LBOs, M&A and IPOs Rosenbaum and Pearl
Jack Welch and the GE Way Robert Slater
Kellogg on Marketing Dawn Iacobucci, Editor
The Little Book that Beats the Market Joel Greenblatt
The Little Book of Economics Greg Ip
The Little Bood of Valuation Aswath Damodaran
The Logic of Subchapter K Laura and Noel Cunningham
Losing My Virginity Richard Branson
Making Capital Budgeting Decisions Hazel Johnson
Market Sense and Nonsense Jack Schwager
The McKinsey Way Ethan Rasiel
Measuring and Controlling Interest Risk and Credit Risk Fabozzi, Mann & Choudhry
Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings Patrick Gaughan
The Mind of the CEO Jeffrey Garten
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets A Fractal
View of Financial Turbulence Benoit Mandelbrot
Misbehaving--The Making of Behavioral Economics Richard H. Thaler
The Monk and the Riddle Randy Komisar
Money Changes Everything--How Finance Made Civilization Possible William N. Goetzmann
The Most Important Thing Howard Marks
My Life as a Quant--Reflections on Physics and Finance Emanuel Derman
The Mystery of Banking Murray Rothbard
Naked Economics Charles Wheelan
Naked Economics--Revised and Updated Charles Wheelan
Naked Statistics Charles Wheelan
Narrative and Numbers—The Value of Stories in Business Aswath Damodaran
Nudge—The Final Edition Thaler and Sunstein
The Only Three Questions that Count Ken Fisher
Passport to Profits Mark Mobius
Pioneering Portfolio Management David Swensen
Popularity--A Bridge Between Classical and Behavioral Finance Roger Ibbotson et al.
The Practice of Lending—A Guide to Credit Analysis and Credit Risk Yhip and Alagheband
Predicting the Markets Edward Yardeni
A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold Peter L. Bernstein
Principles of Statistics M.G. Bulmer
Private Equity Deals Ted Seides
Probability and Statistics for Finance Fabozzi et al.
The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel
Quality of Earnings Thornton O'Glove
The Quest for Value G. Bennett Stewart, III
Radical Marketing Sam Hill/Glen Rifkin
A Random Walk Down Wall Street Burton Malkiel
Rational Expectations--Asset Allocation for Investing Adults William J. Bernstein
Real Estate Finance and Investments Brueggeman and Fisher
Real Estate Finance for Investment Properties Steve Berges
The Recurrent Crisis in Corp Governance Paul Macavoy and Ira Millstein
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Jon D. Markman
Repositioning Asia Kotler and Kartajaya
Running On Empty Peter Peterson
The Road to CEO Sharon Voros
The Second Curve Ian Morrison
The Secrets of Economic Indicators Bernard Baumohl
Secrets of Sand Hill Road--Venture Capital and How to Get It Scott Kupor
Security Analysis (Seventh edition) Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have
Damaged America and the World Jeff Madrick
The Shareholder Value Myth Lynn Stout
The Signal and the Noise--Why So Many Predictions Fail
But Some Don't Nate Silver
The Six Sigma Revolution Georges Eckes
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky
Statistics David Freedman
Statistics and Finance: An Introduction David Rupert
Stigum's Money Market Marcia Stigum
Stocks for the Long Run (6th ed.) Jeremy Siegel
Structured Products and Hybrid Securities Satyajit Das
Term Sheets & Valuations Alex Wilmerding
Toward a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald
Trading Realities Jeff Auden
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy Pietra Rivoli
The Undercover Economist Tim Harford
Understandable Economics Howard Yaruss
Understanding Regression Analysis Larry Schroder, et al
Unlocking the Secrets of the Fed--How Monetary Policy
Affects the Economy David M. Jones
Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation Andrew Metrick
Valuation for Mergers, Buyouts and Restructurings Enrique Arzac
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies McKinsey & Company
Value Investing from Graham to Buffett Bruce Greenwald
Value The Four Cornerstones of Corp Fin McKinsey & Company
Venture Capital Investing David Gladstone
Venture Capital Handbook David Gladstone
The Wall Street MBA Reuben Advani
Wall Street On Sale Timothy Vick
The Warren Buffet Way Robert Hagstrom, Jr.
When Markets Collide Mohamed El-Erian
Wisdom of the CEO G. William Dauphinais
The World is Curved David M. Smick
Yield Curve Analysis Livingston Douglas
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Joel Greenblatt
7 Powers—The Foundations of Business Strategy Hamilton
10 ½ Lessons from Experience Paul Marshall

Financial History

After the Music Stopped--The Financial Crisis, the Response,
and the Work Ahead Alan S. Blinder
Against the Gods--The Remarkable Story of Risk Peter Bernstein
The Age of Cryptocurrency--How Bitcoin and Digital Money
Are Challenging the Global Economic Order Paul Vigna and Michael Casey
The Age of Oversupply--Overcoming the Greatest Challenge
to the Global Economy Daniel Alpert
The Age of Turbulence Alan Greenspan
All the Devils Are Here Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
All the Presidents' Bankers--The Hidden Alliances that Drive
American Power Nomi Prins
The Ascent of Money--A Financial History of the World Niall Ferguson
Asia Falling? Callum Henderson
Asia Rising Jim Rohwer
Austerity--The History of a Dangerous Idea Mark Blyth
Bad Blood--Secrets and Lies at a Silicon Valley Startup John Carreyou
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global
Crisis of Capitalism Kevin Phillips
Banker to the Poor Alan Jolis and Muhammad Yunus
Banker to the World William R. Rhodes
The Battle of Bretton Woods Benn Steil
Ben Bernanke's Fed Ethan S. Harris
Beyond Greed and Fear Hersh Shefrin
The Big Short Michael Lewis
The Bitcoin Standard Saifedean Ammous
Boomerang Michael Lewis
Bubble Man Peter Hartcher
Capitalism in America Greenspan and Wooldridge
Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Joseph Schumpeter
The Changing World Order Ray Dalio
Confidence Game--How Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff Christine S. Richard
Conspiracy of Fools James B. Stewart
The Courage to Act--A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath Ben S. Bernanke
Crash Landing—The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies
Survived An Economy On The Brink Liz Hoffman
The Cult of We—WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion Brown and Farrell
Currency Wars James Rickards
A Demon of Our Own Design Richard Bookstaber
Den of Thieves Kurt Eichenwald
Dethroning the King Julie Macintosh
Devil Take the Hindmost--A History of Financial Speculation Edward Chancellor
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy William H. Janeway
Double Entry--How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance Jane Gleeson-White
The End of Wall Street Roger Lowenstein
The European Economy Since 1945 Barry Eichengreen
Exile on Wall Street Mike Mayo
Exorbitant Privilege Barry Eichengreen
Financial Darwinism--Create Value or Self-Destruct in a World of Risk Leo M. Tilman
Flash Boys--A Wall Street Revolt Michael Lewis
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time David Einhorn
Fool's Gold Gillian Tett
Fragile By Design--The Political Origins of Banking Crises
and Scarce Credit Calomiris and Haber
From Asian to Global Financial Crisis Andrew Sheng
The Globalization Paradox--Democracy and the Future of
the World Economy Dani Rodrik
Grand Pursuit--The Story of Economic Genius Sylvia Nasar
The Great Crash 1929 John Kenneth Galbraith
The Great Inflation and its Aftermath Robert J. Samuelson
The Great Deformation--The Corruption of Capitalism in America David A. Stockman
History of the Federal Reserve Vol 1--1913-1951 Allan Meltzer
History of the Federal Reserve Vol 2, Book 1--1951-1968 Allan Meltzer
History of the Federal Reserve Vol 2, Book 2--1970-1986 Allan Meltzer
A History of Money and Banking in the United States Murray Rothbard
The House of Morgan Ron Chernow
The Housing Boom and Bust Thomas Sowell
In An Uncertain World Robert Rubin
Inside the Fed Stephen Axilrod
Irrational Exuberance Robert J. Shiller
John Maynard Keynes Hyman Minsky
Keynes Hayek--The Clash that Defined Modern Economics Nicholas Wapshott
The Leading Indicators--A Short History of the Numbers
that Rule Our World Zachary Karabell
Lords of Finance--The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed
The Man Who Solved the Market Gregory Zuckerman
Manias, Panics and Crashes Charles Kindleberger
More Money than God Sebastian Mallaby
A Monetary History of the US--1867-1960 Friedman & Jacobson
Money Mischief-Episodes in Monetary History Milton Friedman
The Mystery of Banking Murray Rothbard
The Myth of the Rational Market Justin Fox
The New Empire of Debt William Bonner and Addison Wiggin
The New Lombard Street--How the Fed Became the Dealer
of Last Resort Perry Mehrling
The New New Thing--A Silicon Valley Story Michael Lewis
The Origins of the Crash--The Great Bubble and its Undoing Roger Lowenstein
The Origin of Financial Crises George Cooper
The Origin of Wealth Eric D. Beinhocker
Other People's Money Charles V. Bagli
Panic--The Story of Modern Financial Insanity Michael Lewis
The Panic of 1819 Murray Rothbard
The Panic of 1907 Robert Bruner and Sean Carr
The Physics of Wall Street James Owen Weatherall
The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve Peter Conti-Brown
The Power Law--Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future Sebastian Mallaby
Predator Nation Charles H. Ferguson
The Price of Civilization Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Price of Time--The Real Story of Interest Edward Chancellor
The Return of Depression Economics Paul Krugman
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 Paul Krugman
Reckless Endangerment Gretchen Morgenson
The Rise and Fall of American Growth Robert Gordon
The Rise and Fall of Nations--Forces of Change in the
Post-Crisis World Ruchir Sharma
Secrets of the Temple--How the Fed Runs the Country William Greider
The Shifts and the Shocks--What We've Learned and Have Still
to Learn from the Financial Crisis Martin Wolf
A Short History of Financial Euphoria John Kenneth Galbraith
Skyscraper Dreams--The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York Tom Shachtman
The Spider Network David Enrich
Super Pumped--the Battle for Uber Mike Isaac
This Time Is Different Reinhart and Rogoff
Too Big to Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Trades of March 2020 Alex Gurevich
Trade Wars Are Class Wars Matthew Klein and Michael Pettis
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown Charles R. Morris
Unsettled Account--The Evolution of Banking
In the Industrialized World Since 1800 Richard S. Grossman
When Genius Failed Roger Lowenstein
When Money Dies-- Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany Adam Ferguson
White House Burning Simon Johnson and James Kwak
The World After Capital Albert Wenger
 My readings in the history of the past several centuries.

My readings in the history of the past several centuries.

Readings in popular science including physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, the origins of life and the human mind.

Readings in popular science including physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, the origins of life and the human mind.