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buy low sell high — 79 books
first published 1949
2018 simulation video game developed by Red Fox Game Studios
Yogi Berra — 151 books
first published 1949 added 17 Jan 2017
an American baseball catcher, coach, and manager known for his humorous and paradoxical quotes
Everybody Ought to Be Rich — 15 books
first published 1949 added 10 Mar 2018
Vanguard fund — 123 books
first published 1949
John Bogle — 88 books
first published 1949 added 25 Oct 2021
Michael Milken — 182 books
first published 1949 added 6 Feb 2022
American investor
survivorship bias — 92 books
first published 1949 added 18 Feb 2017
Yom Kippur War — 199 books
first published 1946
October 1973 war between Egypt and Syria at one side and Israel on the other side
Mahatma Gandhi — 338 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
an Indian political and spiritual leader who played a key role in India's struggle for independence
Georg Cantor — 46 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
source of truth — 68 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 9 Apr 2017
a term used in data management to indicate the primary, authoritative source of a particular piece of data.
George Santayana — 86 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 21 Jun 2017
Byzantine Empire — 190 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 7 Oct 2023
Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
liberation theology — 75 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 11 Mar 2017
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
William of Occam — 25 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
"High Line" AND "New York" — 95 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 27 Aug 2024
Eratosthenes — 80 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
Charlemagne — 308 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 8 Dec 2024
Thales of Miletus — 42 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 19 Feb 2018
Plato's cave — 71 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 24 Oct 2022
a philosophical allegory by Plato describing people who perceive only the shadows of reality, used to explore themes of knowledge, reality, and perception.
Thales and the olive presses — 23 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 19 Feb 2018
defense in depth — 55 books
first published 1 Mar 1943
Norman Mailer — 172 books
first published 1 Mar 1943 added 1 Apr 2017
American writer (1923–2007)
transatlantic cable — 88 books
first published 1943 added 22 Nov 2023
the scientific method — 497 books
first published 1943
mathematical and experimental techniques employed in the natural sciences; more specifically, techniques used in the construction and testing of scientific hypotheses
collective bargaining — 411 books
first published 1943
Easter island — 203 books
first published 1943 added 4 Jul 2022
Polynesian island of Chile
Beryl Markham — 11 books
first published 1942 added 6 Nov 2022
a British-born Kenyan aviator and author
Louis Blériot — 24 books
first published 1942
French aviator, inventor and engineer
invention of writing — 85 books
first published 1939
earthrise OR "earth rise" — 85 books
first published 1939 added 26 Jun 2024
out of africa — 236 books
first published 1937
greater fool theory — 69 books
first published 1937 added 14 Feb 2024
animal electricity — 25 books
first published 1937 added 6 Apr 2018
place-making — 304 books
first published 1937
Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness — 24 books
first published 1935
an essay by Bertrand Russell advocating for a reduction in the workweek to improve human happiness
plutocrats — 379 books
first published 1935
book by Chrystia Freeland
invention of gunpowder — 29 books
first published 1935
failed state — 305 books
first published 1935
a political entity that has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government no longer function properly
profit motive — 462 books
first published 1935
the intent to achieve monetary gain in a project, transaction, or material endeavor
invention of agriculture — 69 books
first published 1935
transition from hunter gatherer to settled peoples
yellow journalism — 63 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 5 Mar 2017
a type of journalism that presents little or no well-researched news and instead uses sensationalism to attract readers
activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor — 145 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 19 May 2017
individual or group buying shares to influence company management
clean water — 762 books
first published 14 May 1923
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator — 39 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 30 Jul 2022
book by Edwin Lefèvre
refrigerator car — 52 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 2 Jan 2017
a refrigerated railway car, traditionally used to transport perishable goods
tontine — 31 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 5 Oct 2023
fiat currency — 135 books
first published 14 May 1923
currency established as money by government regulation or law
new economy — 846 books
first published 14 May 1923
economy that is based on digital computing technologies
Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987 — 113 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 22 Mar 2022
refers to October 19, 1987, when stock markets around the world crashed, shedding a huge value in a very short time.
buy and hold — 237 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Mar 2018
investment strategy
Monroe Doctrine — 125 books
first published 14 May 1923
Hernando de Soto — 93 books
first published 14 May 1923
either a 16th-century Spanish explorer and conquistador or a modern Peruvian economist known for his work on property rights.
reserve currency — 220 books
first published 14 May 1923
foreign currency held by monetary authorities as part of forex reserves
behavioural economics — 373 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 3 Oct 2023
an approach to economics that accounts for psychological, social, and emotional factors
gentleman farmer — 66 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 22 Mar 2022
Landowner and hobby farmer
Ford Model T — 325 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 28 Jun 2022
price stability — 267 books
first published 14 May 1923
economic term
short squeeze — 50 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Nov 2022
Money Trust — 47 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Jan 2025
financial concept
book value — 283 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 29 May 2022
in accounting, the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance
Ponzi scheme — 395 books
first published 14 May 1923
a type of financial fraud where returns are paid to earlier investors using the capital of newer investors, rather than from profit.
margin call — 184 books
first published 14 May 1923
technology bubble — 77 books
first published 14 May 1923
a market situation characterised by inflated valuations for tech companies, often irrespective of their profitability
Credit Default Swap — 342 books
first published 14 May 1923
financial swap agreement in case of default
pattern recognition — 464 books
first published 14 May 1923
business process — 343 books
first published 14 May 1923
collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product (serve a particular goal) for a particular customer or customers
cotton gin — 118 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 20 Nov 2021
machine that separates cotton fibers from seeds
short selling — 253 books
first published 14 May 1923
an investment strategy where an investor borrows shares to sell them, aiming to buy them back later at a lower price.
bank run — 328 books
first published 14 May 1923
a sudden withdrawal of deposits from a bank due to fears of insolvency
buy the rumour, sell the news — 10 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Jan 2021
Glass-Steagall Act — 252 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 5 Oct 2023
buttonwood tree — 36 books
first published 14 May 1923
traveling salesman — 193 books
first published 14 May 1923
NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization
Khartoum Gordon — 64 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
Owen Jones — 44 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 11 Jun 2024
James Watt: steam engine — 207 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
bread and circuses — 82 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 22 Jun 2023
Nelson Mandela — 386 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 15 Oct 2020
means of production — 504 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
cuban missile crisis — 369 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
wage slave — 96 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
Winter of Discontent — 71 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
the winter of 1978–79 in the United Kingdom, during which there were widespread strikes by public sector trade unions
Murano, Venice glass — 68 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
Corn Laws — 139 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
19th-century trade restrictions on imported food and grain in the United Kingdom
Upton Sinclair — 205 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist (1878-1968)
full employment — 576 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
a situation in which everyone who wants to work at the going wage rate for their type of labour is employed
women in the workforce — 439 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
women who perform some kind of job
laissez-faire capitalism — 142 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market
upwardly mobile — 342 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
union organizing — 312 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
death from overwork — 62 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 29 Apr 2022
Thomas Malthus — 211 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
Berlin Wall — 858 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
a wall dividing East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989
Louis Pasteur — 195 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
Cornelius Vanderbilt — 133 books
first published 1913 added 5 Oct 2022
machine readable — 244 books
first published 1913 added 21 Sep 2023
transcontinental railway — 212 books
first published 1913
contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders
Fellow of the Royal Society — 175 books
first published 1897
trade route — 691 books
first published 1897