Elliot Allagash: A Novel
by Simon Rich · 24 May 2010 · 215pp · 52,743 words
.” Elliot slammed the phone down and stared at me. “If you think this is about something as petty as class president, you’re an even greater fool than I imagined! This is just a stepping stone—a stepping stone to a stepping stone to a stepping stone to a—” He stopped suddenly
The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
by Jason Kelly · 10 Sep 2012 · 274pp · 81,008 words
going to be left holding on to something that’s not worth as much as they thought. There’s a fear that there’s a greater fool theory at work here. “You either have a superior insight, specialization, an angle that helps you pay a little more than the others, or you
Running Money
by Andy Kessler · 4 Jun 2007 · 323pp · 92,135 words
personal income and consumer credit until it flashes bullish.” “Jobless claims lead interest rates, which lead consumer cylicals. ’Nuff said.” “It all works on the Greater Fool theory.” The most honest: “We’re indexed.” One guy, Jim Burkhardt from Chicago, gave me the best line: “Yeah, sure, I check all the stats
Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
by Bethany McLean · 10 Sep 2018
, when internet companies were valued on the number of eyeballs. The attitude is invest-and-flip, not buy-and-hold. “I view it as a greater fool business model,” one private equity executive tells me. “But it’s one that has worked for a long time.” In the summer of 2017, finger
The Rent Is Too Damn High: What to Do About It, and Why It Matters More Than You Think
by Matthew Yglesias · 6 Mar 2012 · 58pp · 18,747 words
failure to appreciate the extent to which we’re building bigger homes. So how do people make money in real estate? Sometimes it’s the “greater fool” theory. Your investment doesn’t need to make sense if you can hand it off to some other sucker. But the main reason it’s
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
by Rob Copeland · 7 Nov 2023 · 412pp · 122,655 words
from China, would continue to bid asset prices up and keep the market humming. He was riffing on a Wall Street adage, that there were greater fools out there, ever willing to buy someone out at a higher price. The interviewer asked, “Do you see any risk of a U.S. recession
Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World
by Anna Crowley Redding · 1 Jul 2019 · 190pp · 46,977 words
or not somebody knew what the Internet was, they knew that you could make money on the Internet somehow, even if it’s on the greater fool theory,”52 Elon explained. THROWBACK! Netscape launched its Navigator web browser in December 1994, and it quickly became the preferred way to surf the web
House of Debt: How They (And You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi · 11 May 2014 · 249pp · 66,383 words
can only exist if the buyers are “optimists” (a gentle word for those with “irrational exuberance”) or if the buyers believe there will be a “greater fool” to buy the asset in the future when prices are even higher.7 We can now start to build a theory of how debt stokes
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those who are convinced that asset prices will continue to rise. By enhancing optimists’ buying power in the future, debt increases the probability that a greater fool will indeed be waiting tomorrow.8 Imagine a world with 100 identical houses for sale. Two types of people populate this world: optimists and pessimists
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relaxation in access to debt means that more optimists can enter today and in the future. This bolsters the belief that there will be a greater fool who will buy the asset at even higher prices. And the party gets even bigger. The expectation of a bubble growing even more entices speculators
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
by David Gerard · 23 Jul 2017 · 309pp · 54,839 words
: Popular buzz; media coverage. The public see these first investors and buy because others are buying, with the implicit assumption that there will always be Greater Fools to sell it on to. This is what makes a bubble: investing to sell to other investors. Someone will say that the old rules don
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’t apply any more. Blowoff phase: The old rules turn out to still apply. The bubble runs out of Greater Fools; prices collapse. The asset need not be a commodity, e.g., the Beanie Baby craze of the late 1990s, in which the asset was various
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
by Johnjoe McFadden · 27 Sep 2021
expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. Farewell.’ A copy of the first print run of the book was rushed to Canon Copernicus’s bedside. He died
The Art of Execution: How the World's Best Investors Get It Wrong and Still Make Millions
by Lee Freeman-Shor · 8 Sep 2015 · 121pp · 31,813 words
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
by Didier Sornette · 18 Nov 2002 · 442pp · 39,064 words
Heads I Win, Tails I Win
by Spencer Jakab · 21 Jun 2016 · 303pp · 84,023 words
The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors
by Spencer Jakab · 1 Feb 2022 · 420pp · 94,064 words
Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy
by Gregory Brandon Salsbury · 15 Mar 2010 · 261pp · 70,584 words
Out of Africa
by Karen Blixen · 1 Jan 1937 · 309pp · 122,748 words
Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
by B. Mark Smith · 1 Jan 2001 · 403pp · 119,206 words
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Pérez · 1 Jan 2002
The Scandal of Money
by George Gilder · 23 Feb 2016 · 209pp · 53,236 words
How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely
by Andrew Craig · 6 Sep 2015 · 305pp · 98,072 words
Gambling Man
by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words
Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman · 17 Jul 2023 · 329pp · 99,504 words
Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports From a Sinking Society
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I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
by John Lanchester · 14 Dec 2009 · 322pp · 77,341 words
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
by John Cassidy · 10 Nov 2009 · 545pp · 137,789 words
More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos
by Dava Sobel · 1 Sep 2011 · 271pp · 68,440 words
Darwin Among the Machines
by George Dyson · 28 Mar 2012 · 463pp · 118,936 words
Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World's Richest Man
by Jonathan Conlin · 3 Jan 2019 · 604pp · 165,488 words
The Smartest Guys in the Room
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Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
by Tom Eisenmann · 29 Mar 2021 · 387pp · 106,753 words
Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age
by Michael Wolff · 22 Jun 2015 · 172pp · 46,104 words
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna · 23 May 2016 · 437pp · 113,173 words
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
by Michael Pollan · 27 May 2002 · 273pp · 83,186 words
The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times
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How Money Became Dangerous
by Christopher Varelas · 15 Oct 2019 · 477pp · 144,329 words
Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom
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Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
by Reeves Wiedeman · 19 Oct 2020 · 303pp · 100,516 words
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
by William Quinn and John D. Turner · 5 Aug 2020 · 297pp · 108,353 words
Buffett
by Roger Lowenstein · 24 Jul 2013 · 612pp · 179,328 words
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
by Frank Pasquale · 17 Nov 2014 · 320pp · 87,853 words
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
by Steven Weinberg · 17 Feb 2015 · 532pp · 133,143 words
Principles: Life and Work
by Ray Dalio · 18 Sep 2017 · 516pp · 157,437 words
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
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Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)
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The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
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Fantasyland
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Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream
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Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
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How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--And What It Really Means
by John Lanchester · 5 Oct 2014 · 261pp · 86,905 words
The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money
by Steven Drobny · 18 Mar 2010 · 537pp · 144,318 words
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
by William J. Bernstein · 26 Apr 2002 · 407pp · 114,478 words
Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing · 19 Feb 2016
Paper Promises
by Philip Coggan · 1 Dec 2011 · 376pp · 109,092 words
Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in a Global Market
by Steven Drobny · 31 Mar 2006 · 385pp · 128,358 words
Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
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Presidents of War
by Michael Beschloss · 8 Oct 2018
The Behavioral Investor
by Daniel Crosby · 15 Feb 2018 · 249pp · 77,342 words
Stock Market Wizards: Interviews With America's Top Stock Traders
by Jack D. Schwager · 1 Jan 2001
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--And Have Still to Learn--From the Financial Crisis
by Martin Wolf · 24 Nov 2015 · 524pp · 143,993 words
Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
by Steve Keen · 21 Sep 2011 · 823pp · 220,581 words
The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98: Birth of the Age of Debt
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Hedge Fund Market Wizards
by Jack D. Schwager · 24 Apr 2012 · 272pp · 19,172 words
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
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Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Sixth Edition
by Kindleberger, Charles P. and Robert Z., Aliber · 9 Aug 2011
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Eleventh Edition)
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Principles of Corporate Finance
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
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