The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
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Grover Gardner
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George Soros
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"This is a once in a lifetime moment," writes Soros in characterizing the scale of financial distress spreading across Wall Street and other financial centers around the world. In a concise essay that combines practical insight with philosophical depth, Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.
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The Money Formula takes you inside the engine room of the global economy to explore the little-understood world of quantitative finance, and show how the future of our economy rests on the backs of this all-but-impenetrable industry. Written not from a post-crisis perspective - but from a preventative point of view - this book traces the development of financial derivatives from bonds to credit default swaps, and shows how mathematical formulas went beyond pricing to expand their use to the point where they dwarfed the real economy.
By: Paul Wilmott, and others
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Forecast
- What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics
- By: Mark Buchanan
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs
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Picture an early scene from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy hurries home as a tornado gathers in what was once a clear Kansas sky. Hurriedly, she seeks shelter in the storm cellar under the house, but, finding it locked, takes cover in her bedroom. We all know how that works out for her.Many investors these days are a bit like Dorothy, putting their faith in something as solid and trustworthy as a house (or, say, real estate). But market disruptions - storms - seem to arrive without warning, leaving us little time to react.
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Good Contrarian Book
- By J. Sterz on 04-18-17
By: Mark Buchanan
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The Age of Oversupply
- Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy
- By: Daniel Alpert
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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The governments and central banks of the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish, or worse. How did we get here, and how can we emerge from the longest downturn in recent memory? Daniel Alpert, a progressive Wall Street banker and economist, argues that we are living in the age of oversupply.
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Great book but now out of date
- By emory morsberger on 11-30-17
By: Daniel Alpert
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The Rise of Carry
- The Dangerous Consequences of Volatility Suppression and the New Financial Order of Decaying Growth and Recurring Crisis
- By: Tim Lee, Jamie Lee, Kevin Coldiron
- Narrated by: Todd Belcher
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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The financial shelves are filled with books that explain how popular carry trading has become in recent years. But none has revealed just how significant a role it plays in the global economy - until now. A groundbreaking book sure to leave its mark in the canon of investing literature, The Rise of Carry explains how carry trading has virtually shaped the global economic picture - one of decaying economic growth, recurring crises, wealth disparity, and, in too many places, social and political upheaval.
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Good framework, games out the possibilities
- By Philo on 11-24-21
By: Tim Lee, and others
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The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
- By: Milton Friedman
- Narrated by: A. C. Fellner
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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The Great Contraction, 1929-1933 argued that the Federal Reserve could have stemmed the severity of the Depression, but failed to exercise its role of managing the monetary system and ameliorating banking panics. This edition of the original text includes a new preface by Anna Jacobson Schwartz, as well as a new introduction by the economist Peter Bernstein.
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A different explanation for the Great Depression.
- By Robert on 11-13-12
By: Milton Friedman
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Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
- By: John C. Bogle
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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There is no one better qualified to tell us about the failures of the American financial system and the grotesque abuses that have taken place in recent years than John C. Bogle, founder and former chief executive of the Vanguard mutual-fund group. This legendary mutual-fund pioneer has witnessed firsthand the innermost workings of the financial industry for more than 50 years and has set the standards for sound investment strategies and stewardship.
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Do You Own a Mutual Fund?
- By M. Kettell on 02-02-08
By: John C. Bogle
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The Most Important Thing
- Uncommon Sense for The Thoughtful Investor
- By: Howard Marks
- Narrated by: John FitzGibbon
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk. After four decades spent ascending to the top of the investment management profession, he is today sought out by the world's leading value investors, and his client memos brim with insightful commentary and a time-tested, fundamental philosophy. The Most Important Thing explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career.
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Five Star Book, two Star Audiobook
- By Johnny on 06-08-15
By: Howard Marks
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Money Mischief
- Episodes in Monetary History
- By: Milton Friedman
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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What kind of mischief can result from misunderstanding the monetary system? The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, as well as Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to appease a few senators from the American West who helped communism triumph in China, are just 2 such mishaps cited in this important work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. This accessible work also provides an in-depth discussion on the creation of value.
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This book is not unabridged.
- By James on 01-18-09
By: Milton Friedman
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- Christopher M Lilley
- 07-26-08
Very well Narrarated
George Soros doesn't lack an ego, this is clear in all of his books. I do like to try to see things from his point of view. Reflexivity makes some sense but I am not sure it is really that new of an idea. I would rate this book average. Probably worth the listen or read but don't pick this over real theory if you are trying to learn more about economics.
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- L
- 08-07-08
wade through the first half and you'll be rewarded
much of the book is autobiography, explaining the evolution of his thinking, then his self-titled theory of "reflexivity." but it's spot-on in its recount of the final crisis that's occuring right now.
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- Horace
- 12-26-08
Brilliant but sure to be Controversial
This book sets forward a framework for understanding markets, called "reflexology";. I assume that this choose of moniker is a deliberate reference to a kind of mathematical analysis that goes under the same name and is popular in Russia for understanding some game theory like situations, e.g., asymmetric combat. But he never explicitly says rather he means the same thing.
The idea is that the actions of market participants, if allowed to pursue their self interest, limit knowledge about the market. This is because the use of new knowledge changes the dynamics of the system.
It's a simple, not entirely new insight, but in my opinion he somewhat convincingly argues that it really is at odds with many fundamental concepts of economics, like market efficiency.
In my opinion the major weakness of the book is that it doesn't offer many hints about what to do about this state of affairs. So the system has feedback; is it unstable; can it be stabilized; is there a better way of understanding transient system state or at least understand our understaing of the sate.
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- sedrakpc
- 02-19-23
I think this book is underappreciated
As a Milton Friedman follower I took the reflectivity theory very seriously and now have to adjust my feelings about free market)
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- G. E.
- 12-29-08
Reflexivity is not the right word!
I now finally understand that George Soros, as smart as he may be, does not know how to explain himself all that well. I mean, he's been trying to explain his concept of reflexivity to the world for almost two decades. If nothing else he is persistent, I will concede. I listened to this entire book but I am still not inspired nor enlightened by Mr. Soros nor would I know how to apply the knowledge in the book. Am I just slow? Maybe, but perhaps the problem is not me but the terminology Mr. Soros has chosen to frame his reflexivity concept. That's my two cents.
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- Carter
- 07-11-08
Sleep Aid
Soros bores the reader with his ponderous self invented theory of "reflexivity" (sp) which is a pseudo-scientific mess. In vain was there a search for some insight into his investing acumen. God, this was dull.
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- David
- 06-23-08
What you take away, you'll have earned.
It really is striking to hear how frequently George Soros repeats himself. He must have defined his concept of "reflexivity" about one hundred times over. He can be very efficient though, when he wants to be. His telling of historical events in the markets and their cause/effect relationships was brief and clear and fantastic. I am reminded of "Rain Man". "Rain Man" could count a pile of toothpicks at a glance but, well, there were other things that he simply couldn't do well. Soros muses openly about whether or not he is taken seriously as a philosopher. If Soros is a philosopher, then "Rain Man" is a hot Latin lover. I think Soros has conveyed one good idea, (reflexivity) and then utterly milked it to death. Beyond that he reveals some of his fevered political views. It's breathtaking what an otherwise astute thinker can bring himself to believe.
I think that the book does have some real value, you'll just have to wade through an awful lot to reach it.
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