Adam Iqbal, Volatility [Book Review]
Adam S. Iqbal is the global head of FX Exotics and Correlation at Goldman Sachs and was formerly an FX options trader and portfolio manager at Barclays and Pimco. [...]
Scott Belsky, The Messy Middle [Book Review]
We’ve all been there. We start a project with great enthusiasm. Then, as we proceed, the goal seems farther and farther away. We have self-doubts, we are mired in [...]
Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh, Blitzscaling [Book Review]
In my wildest fantasies I never envisage creating the next Amazon or Facebook. But I’m intrigued by the people who set out to do just that, who they are [...]
Igor Tulchinsky, The Unrules [Book Review]
In some ways Igor Tulchinsky has written an “un-book,” and it’s undoubtedly the better for it. The UnRules: Man, Machines and the Quest to Master Markets (Wiley, 2018) is [...]
Knapp & Zeratsky, Make Time [Book Review]
Another day, another self-help book that takes time away from things I should really be doing. Call it a form of distraction. But, oops, this is precisely what Jake [...]
Agrawal et al., Prediction Machines
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, all chaired professors at the University of Toronto’s [...]
Bethany McLean, Saudi America [Book Review]
Bethany McLean, the well-known financial journalist (she co-authored The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here and wrote Shaky Ground), has turned her attention to [...]
Ming Zeng, Smart Business [Book Review]
Ming Zeng’s Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals about the Future of Strategy (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) is a thought-provoking book. Written by the chief strategy officer at [...]
Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection [Book Review]
Ken Kocienda was the principal engineer of iPhone software at Apple, so he writes with authority in Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve [...]
Meb Faber, The Best Investment Writing – Volume 2 [Book Review]
If you didn’t read the first volume of Meb Faber’s The Best Investment Writing (and you should have and of course still can), you’re got another crack at learning [...]
Tiffani Bova, Growth IQ [Book Review]
In Growth IQ: Get Smarter about the Choices That Will Make or Break Your Business (Portfolio/Penguin, 2018) Tiffani Bova regales the reader with stories about 30 companies to demonstrate [...]
John McNally, The Promise Of Failure [Book Review]
Why write? Especially when, in most cases, the writer faces rejection of one sort or another. This is the question John McNally raises in The Promise of Failure: One Writer’s [...]
Donald Hall, A Carnival Of Losses [Book Review]
I’m getting to the age that I read things about getting old. Not the advice that AARP sends out but essays by writers who are comfortably ahead of me [...]
Brian Portnoy, The Geometry Of Wealth [Book Review]
Brian Portnoy, director of investment education at Virtus Investment Partners, has written a personal finance book that goes beyond mere finance. The Geometry of Wealth: How To Shape A Life [...]
Howard Yu: Leap [Book Review]
Legally or illegally, companies have for centuries copied the intellectual property of their competitors and encroached on their market share. One has only to think back to the commercial [...]
Allen Gannett, The Creative Curve [Book Review]
The thesis of Allen Gannett’s The Creative Curve (Currency / Crown, 2018) isn’t revolutionary. But I guess that’s the point. If it were, the book wouldn’t sell well. It would [...]
John Carreyrou, Bad Blood [Book Review]
On Friday Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, and its former president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani were criminally charged with wire fraud. These charges came three months after the SEC [...]
Laurence Ball, The Fed And Lehman Brothers [Book Review]
Laurence M. Ball, a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, is convinced that (1) the Federal Reserve Bank had the authority to rescue Lehman in 2008 and that [...]
Allison Pearson, How Hard Can It Be? [Book Review]
I read a lot of fiction, mostly mysteries/thrillers, for relaxation and/or escapism, the vast majority of which I never write about. After all, who cares about my reactions to [...]
Sebastian Edwards, The Unknown Great debt default of 1933-1935
No, this is not a dystopian account of the consequences of bad tax policy, wanton spending, and political gridlock. American Default (Princeton University Press, 2018), by Sebastian Edwards, is, [...]
Koesterich, Portfolio Construction For Today’s Markets
Russ Koesterich, who is currently responsible for asset allocation and risk management for BlackRock’s largest investment team (managing about $80 billion), has written a book for financial advisors. Portfolio [...]
Will Doig, High-Speed Empire [Book Review]
A couple of weeks ago 27 EU ambassadors to Beijing (with the exception of the ambassador from Hungary) signed an internal report criticizing China’s belt and road program, saying [...]
