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Sep
18
I guess many of the readers of this blog are students like me, so if you are a student, Amazon.com has a free program called Amazon Student where you can get Amazon Prime shipping benefits free for a year. Great for getting quant books for yourself!
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Enjoy this great service by signing up at Amazon Student
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Mar
11
Most of us have read the book Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
, one of the books that define Wall Street during the 1980s and are highly recommened by many people in academia and industry, where the author Michael Lewis described his experiences as a bond salesman in a humon sense. I just got to know today from a friend of mine recommending a new book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine , as described:
I don't know, considering the high quality of Liar's Pocker, it may be worth reading. I pre-ordered just now at Amazon, if you also want a bed reading book, order one at only $15.09 at Amazon to be released on March 15, 2010. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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, one of the books that define Wall Street during the 1980s and are highly recommened by many people in academia and industry, where the author Michael Lewis described his experiences as a bond salesman in a humon sense. I just got to know today from a friend of mine recommending a new book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine , as described:Quotation
A brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. Truth really is stranger than fiction. Who better than the author of the signature bestseller Liar’s Poker to explain how the event we were told was impossible—the free fall of the American economy—finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.
I don't know, considering the high quality of Liar's Pocker, it may be worth reading. I pre-ordered just now at Amazon, if you also want a bed reading book, order one at only $15.09 at Amazon to be released on March 15, 2010. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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Feb
1
Henry Merritt Paulson, Seventy-five men served as Treasury Secretary of the United States, blurted out when he learned U.K.'s Financial Service Authority was reluctant to approve a prebankruptcy deal for Barclays PLC to acquire Lehman, "The British screwed us." This was revealed in Paulson's new book "On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System", where the author tell us the key decisions that had to be made with lightning speed under urgent market conditions, about Lehman Brothers, AIG, and other financial institutions.
Selected author's note from the book On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
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Selected author's note from the book On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
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The pace of events during the financial crisis of 2008 was truly breathtaking. In this book, I have done my best to describe my actions and the thinking behind them during that time, and to convey the breakneck speed at which events were happening all around us.
I believe the most important part of this story is the way Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and I worked as a team through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. There can't be many other examples of economic leaders managing a crisis who had as much trust in one another as we did. Our partnership proved to be an enormous asset during an incredibly difficult period. But at the same time, this is my story, and as hard as I have tried to reflect the contributions made by everyone involved, it is primarily about my work and that of my talented and dedicated team at Treasury.
--Henry M. Paulson
I believe the most important part of this story is the way Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and I worked as a team through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. There can't be many other examples of economic leaders managing a crisis who had as much trust in one another as we did. Our partnership proved to be an enormous asset during an incredibly difficult period. But at the same time, this is my story, and as hard as I have tried to reflect the contributions made by everyone involved, it is primarily about my work and that of my talented and dedicated team at Treasury.
--Henry M. Paulson
