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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve 45 reviews
G. Edward Griffin
Amer Media, 2002
The history of financial enslavement
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers ...
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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist 102 reviews
Roger Lowenstein
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
Excellent
Well researched, analyzed, and written.
I see why Buffett was silently acceptive in autographing it. Superb job in reporting both analytical economics and personal life. Truth.
I will read more from this author.
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Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services 104 reviews
Guy Kawasaki, Michele Moreno
Collins Business, 2000
There are books that tell you how do it, others inspire
I will start by saying that I have not finish reading it. It took me over a year to complete Art of the Start, and the reason is that there was so much inspiration, that I felt it was going to be eclipsed by the excitment of the next chapter.
Its not a how-to book, is how to face yourself and ispire you to get throgh the obstacles, inner or outer, that will surge along the way.
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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Borzoi Books)46 reviews
Robert B. Reich
Knopf, 2007
Reich changes my worldview
There are really three things I think I would've wanted to know about this book before reading it.
1. Reich's book treats us to a great many (quite persuasive) counterintuitve explanations. I'm a sucker for (good) explanations about phenomena that cut against intuition. For instance, when you learn in basic training that a bullet drops at the same rate as a paperclip, it's obviously true, but ...
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A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States56 reviews
Stephen Mihm
Harvard University Press, 2007
Very interesting
Like many I didn't realize that we did not have a national currency until well after our country was founded. It was fascinating to learn that many banks used to print their own currency and how this system could be, and was, often manipulated and abused. I thought many times of Ayn Rand when reading this and her notions of money/work and felt like this book explained where her ideas came from. ...
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Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip89 reviews
Jim Rogers
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
Great lessons from a true explorer--the Richard Feynman of finance
This book offers you an amazing learning experience from someone with a greater scope of knowledge and curiosity (could he possibly just sit still?) than just about anyone else I know. After finishing this book--I feel that I've absorbed the collective wisdom of 100's of people living over many centuries. Rogers sense of adventure and curiosity compares with that of Richard Feynman--and one ...
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Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions 85 reviews
Ben Mezrich
Harper Perennial, 2005
Very interesting book on the industry in Japan.
This was a quick read that gave an inside look into the industry in Asia. I found the book well-written and informative, as well as entertaining. I highly recommend.
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The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros13 reviews
Mark Tier
St. Martin's Griffin, 2006
an NLP approach: study the thinking of successful investors
Author Mark Tier applies Neuro-Linguistic Programming to investing. NLP is a discipline that says if you want to be good at something, emulate the thoughts of those who are masters and your own performance will follow. He collects all the information he can on Warren Buffett and George Soros and what they say they are thinking, and distills out 23 common elements. Then he compares this to ...
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
Bantam, 2008
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known ...
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.43 reviews
Ron Chernow
Vintage, 2004
An unbiased look
I was very impressed with the skill of Ron Chernow when I read "Alexander Hamilton". After such an impressive work I decided that I would take on "Titan" which deals with the life of John D. Rockefeller. Chernow did not disappoint, and in some ways this may be the better of the biographies.
"Titan" illuminates Rockefeller duplicity as a pious man that showed no quarter in his business ...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Capitalism (Politically Incorrect Guides)39 reviews
Robert P. Murphy
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2007
A wonderful beginner's guide
This was one of the first books I read when I became interested in money and economics. The book is well thought out and explains the benefits of the free market and capitalism. Far too many people feel the people who earn lots of money do not deserve it, but that is why America was so prosperous in the past. If you want socialism and 'feel' that you are entitled to government support, then ...
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The Myth of the Robber Barons21 reviews
Burton W. Folsom
Young Amer Foundatio, 1987
Great Book for Introducing the Expansion of Industry
I used this book as the primary text for a high school class I taught: Monopolies: Necessity, Invention, and the Corporation. It is a great springboard to learning how the major indutries of the 19th century developed and helped shape this country. Folsom presents the major players with a conversational tone that makes this book accessible to young readers. He does a great job of presenting the ...
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Angel Investing: Matching Startup Funds with Startup Companies -- A Guide for Entrepreneurs, Individual ...23 reviews
Mark Van Osnabrugge, Robert J. Robinson
Jossey-Bass, 2000
Good Overview of Angel Investing
"Angel Investing" by Mark Van Osnabrugge and Robert J. Robinson gives useful information about angel investors and venture capitalists. Van Osnabrugge and Robinson estimate that angel investors--wealthy individuals who invest their own money into start-up companies--invest three to five times more money than venture capitalists and back thirty to forty times more ventures, making angel investors ...
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Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital4 reviews
Spencer E. Ante
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
WWII and Venture Capital History Lovers - A MUST READ!!!!
Americans always talk of saving France during WWII, yet at the same time, here was an intriguing French immigrant who rose to be a top professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, a founder of the venture capital industry, founder of INSEAD the European business school and to top it all off- played a critical role in saving countless American lives in WWII by leading the innovation ...
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Jesse Livermore: World's Greatest Stock Trader29 reviews
Richard Smitten
Wiley, 2001
Good reading.
Richard Smitten does an excellent job of portraying Jessy Livermore. He does not protray Mr. Livermore as a hero or a goat, just a man.
The book is easy reading and is very insightful to the frailities of a successful stock operator. It also discloses the principles by which Mr. Livermore built his wealth, and lost it. Good job Mr. Smitten.
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The Warren Buffett Way82 reviews
Wiley, 2004
Great Investor, Great Book!
Warren Buffet, the world's richest man, without a doubt, is the greatest investor today. Buffet's the only investor using fundamental analysis who can beat market indices. Unlike the vast majority of money and mutual fund managers who charge high management fees and consistently lag their respective market indices, Buffet has beaten the market for decades. The one lesson this wise investor ...
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Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism 54 reviews
Paul Klebnikov
Harvest Books, 2001
Berezovsky & the Litvininenko Killing (Polonium)
Everybody should read this book - it helps to put the entire Litvinenko killing in perspective ; the dead Russian spy worked for Berezovsky - given Berezovsky long criminal history it would not be surprising at all that he was directly involved in murdering his own employee as part of his long ongoing campaign to overthrow the democratically elected president Putin and thereby ...
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Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve19 reviews
George Soros
Wiley, 1995
Self indulgent but interesting
This is a commissioned book. Basically, a self-indulgent pseudo-autobiography written in an interview style. "my own estimation of myself is more important to me than other people's" (P249) The interview style makes this work more accesable to the average reader by overcoming the intense, convoluted style of Soros' other writings. It also allows more topics to be covered in less technical detail. ...
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Good Guys and Bad Guys: Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything ...6 reviews
Joe Nocera
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
Great book
Joe Nocera's Good Guys and Bad Guys
Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks
and I've learned much from both of their styles.
-Jimmy Buffett
One of my favorite business books is Mark McCormick's What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School.
The 1986 book had a huge influence on me. McCormick encouraged readers to write letters to people and say ...
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Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, New and Expanded Edition15 reviews
Walter Lafeber
W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
Capital vs Culture
LaFeber was well-known and loved by his students at Cornell as a spell binding lecturer and is widely respected as an expert on the history U.S foreign relations. So at first I wondered what about Michael Jordan could possibly interest a distinguished and conscientious scholar of American history, someone not normally associated with forays into pop culture. But it's a really fascinating, ...
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