Category: Resources & Reviews
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Friday, September 08, 2017
OverClockers UK Custom Built Gaming PC Review: 1. Delivery and Unboxing / Personal_Finance / Resources & Reviews
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Here's the first video in our series of exactly what to expect when buying a custom built PC from a major UK custom PC builder, OverClockers UK. So 10 calendar days after placing the order delivery day has arrived. But how reliable will the days delivery window be? And then after delivery it's unboxing time to find out exactly what's been delivered, has it all survived transit intact? Find out now of what to expect when ordering from OverClockers UK and probably most similar custom PC builders.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
The Death Of Capital / Politics / Resources & Reviews
By: Andrew_McKillop
Elite Psychosis Again
Rather predictably, the elite-serving glove puppet media has decided it is right and good at this time to wheel on its handpicked, most obedient and servile journalists to opine about Piketty's new book “Capital”. This coincides with David Stockman's almost triumphant declaration of Greenspan-and-Bernanke's come-uppance Truth Moment (“America's Housing Fiasco Is On You, Alan Greenspan”).
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Monday, April 07, 2014
Flash Boys - Why You Need to Read Michael Lewis’ New Exposé / Stock-Markets / Resources & Reviews
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: No doubt you’ve heard about Michael Lewis’ new book, “Flash Boys.”
And, no doubt you’ve been hearing more than ever before about the subject of Lewis’ book, High Frequency Trading (HFT).
I ran to Barnes & Noble to buy the book the second I heard about it last week. They didn’t have any copies. So, I ordered it online, which was cheaper anyway.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
End of Economic Man Revisited / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Christopher_Quigley
In 1939 Peter F. Drucker wrote "The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism". Its publication caused a sensation. When Winston Churchill became prime minister of Great Britain he gave the order to include the book in the kit issued to every graduate of a British Officer's Candidate School. A year previously Churchill had reviewed the publication. It impressed him because he realized that something fundamental had happened in the world with the rise of Fascisms and he wished his officers to understand what they were fighting in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy.
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: John_Mauldin
I recently had a chance to speak at a conference where Dr. Ian Bremmer spoke after me. I was very impressed with his thought process and asked him to give me an outline of his speech to share with you for this week's Outside the Box. It's a shorter version of his powerhouse book, Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World. I highly recommend it.
And what, you're asking, is a "G-Zero world"? In a word, it's a leaderless world. A world in which, as Bremmer says, "Not so long ago, America, Western Europe and Japan were the world's powerhouses. Today, they're struggling to recover their dynamism…. But nor are rising powers like China, India, Brazil, Turkey, the Gulf Arabs and others ready to take up the slack…. If not the West, the rest, or the institutions where they come together, who will lead? The answer is, no one."
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Investing Philosophy Recommended Reading / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Casey_Research
Robert Ross, Casey Research : We at Casey Research are often asked, "What books have had the biggest impact on your investing philosophy?" To find out, we took a quick, informal poll of our most prominent economists, editors, and analysts to see which books helped form their unique economic outlooks. The books range from mainstays of the political economy, such as Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions, to classics from antiquity, including Plato's The Republic. However, genres often overlooked – like our founder Doug Casey's longtime interest in science fiction – should give current and prospective subscribers a glimpse into the diverse influences that drive our publications.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
My Horrific Experiences With Sony Customer Support, Laptop Product Service Review / ConsumerWatch / Resources & Reviews
By: Mike_Shedlock
My Horrific EI have a Sony laptop computer. It is less than a year old. It was not cheap. I bought the best components, memory and hardware components options available including 3-year in home support.
A couple of months ago the monitor developed a problem (a line of dead pixels down the entire length of the screen). I knew it was a hardware failure because I run a dual monitor setup and the line did not appear on the second screen.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Douglas_French
Cheap and plentiful money and credit have made investing impossible and speculation de rigueur for those not wishing to wait out the storm with the barbarous relic. The father of value investing, Benjamin Graham, distinguished between the two:
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Rebooting the American Dream / Politics / Resources & Reviews
By: Ian_Fletcher
Thom Hartmann is famous as a liberal commentator on the radio, on TV, and in over a dozen books. But he has written here a book that is of far more than partisan value. Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country will please liberal readers, but it will also challenge them to revisit some of their own lazy beliefs. It will annoy conservatives, but the smarter ones will take notes and absorb some of his trans-partisan insights into their own politics.
Friday, March 25, 2011
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism / Politics / Resources & Reviews
By: Ian_Fletcher
If you’re not happy with the way the U.S. economy is being run right now, you’ve been pretty much stuck talking to leftists to get any serious in-depth dissidence. With the exception of a few distinguished rightist critics like Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan appointee at the Treasury Department, most people who do hard-hitting across-the-board criticism of our present variety of capitalism are liberals and beyond. So if pink isn’t your political color, you’re pretty much stuck with narrow-bore criticism of the recent financial crisis—most of which comes down to “people were stupid and crooked.”Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 13, 2010
Janet Tavakoli's Top Ten Business Books of 2010 / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Janet_Tavakoli
New Century: Fooling Me All of the Time or Why Improper Practices Only Matter When I’m Short and Not Earning Double Digit Dividends by David Einhorn
The Race to Stop the Collapse of Goldman Sachs and Exploit the Crisis, by Henry M. Paulson
Friday, December 03, 2010
Top 12 Favourite Books On The FInancial and Economic Crisis That has Defined Our Times / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Danny_Schechter
Back in 2007, just as the markets began their meltdown, I started writing a book I called Plunder to investigate the then emerging economic calamity. I had a well-known agent representing me, and, at that time, had published ten books. My agent warned me that I was ahead of the curve but agreed that the subject couldn’t be timelier.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Gods of Money, Wall Street and the Death of the American Century / Politics / Resources & Reviews
By: Reg_Little
William Engdahl’s latest book is another awesome exploration and explanation of the boldness and failings of Anglo-American global strategy over most of the past century and a half. Engdahl recalls in his introduction a statement from the 1970’s attributed to then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a protégé of the powerful Rockefeller circles, in which he declared, “If you control the oil, you control entire nations; if you control the food, you control the people; if you control the money, you control the entire world.”
Monday, July 19, 2010
Robustness and Fragility, A Lecture by Dr. Nassim Taleb / Politics / Resources & Reviews
By: Daniel_Bruno
He starts the sold-out presentation with a tale of two readers on a business trip. Settled in for a long flight, Dr. Taleb pulls a book out of his bag while the fellow next to him pulls out the fashionable,expensive, razor thin, 500 book capacity Kindle to pass the time. A conversation ensues and comparisons are made. Common sense and marketing tell us that the Kindle is far more efficient, But Dr. Taleb is not so sure. He has reams of work on 1990s era floppy discs that he can no longer access. But books, the product of technology essentially unchanged in 500 years, present no such problem and will outlast the Kindle when it too becomes obsolete.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Enjoy 8 Free Chapters from Robert Prechter's Conquer the Crash / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: EWI
Prechter's New York Times and Wall Street Journal business best-seller remains a useful read.
In 2002, Elliott Wave International's president Robert Prechter published his New York Times and Wall Street Journal business best-seller Conquer the Crash, a prescient book that explained why a financial crisis was inevitable and predicted almost exactly how it would unfold.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Trading and Investing Books to Keep You Sane in an Insane Market / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
I originally wrote this list of recommended books last year; recently I updated and added a few more. I hope to keep adding to it every year. It contains six sections: Selling, Think Like an Investor, Behavioral Investing, Economics, Stock Market History, and Books for the Soul. Due to its length, I divided it into two parts. I hope you enjoy it.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Robert Prechter Conquer the Crash 2009 Second Edition Book Review / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Robert Prechter's original Conquer the Crash book of 2002 sought to explain why he thought the economy was heading for a deflationary depression through the application of elliott wave theory as well as giving many suggestions as to how to protect ones assets in a deflationary environment. The second edition adds 188 new pages (480 pages total) seeking to expand Prechter’s deflationary argument through the stock market’s manic climb to the 2007 peak and subsequent crash.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Financial Crisis a Crime Story? / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Asks Danny Schechter in his new book THE CRIME OF OUR TIME, Was The Economic Collapse “Indeed, Criminal?” which reveals how an ongoing crime built up on pervasive subcrime mortgage fraud, predatory securitization, unchecked leveraging, and phony insurance scams that lost trillions, cost millions of families their homes, devastating financial markets and western economic security. Schechter argues “We need a jailout, not a bailout.”
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Friday, February 06, 2009
Clean Money - John Rubino: Book Review / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: David_Shvartsman
274 pages. Hoboken, New Jersey
John Wiley & Sons.
2009. 1st Edition.
The bouyant stock market environment of the past several years is gone, and the financial wreckage of 2008 is still sharp in our minds as a new year starts to unfold.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Market Oracle Readership 2008 Awards Ballot / sitenews / Resources & Reviews
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Market Oracle readership can now cast their votes for their favourite articles of analysis and authors between 17th November and 14th December 2008.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Investing and Savings Lessons From the Age of Exploration / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Money_Morning
When the going gets tough, I often draw inspiration from the most unlikely sources - many of which have nothing to do with the financial markets.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 23, 2008
The Complete TurtleTrader - Book Review / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Michael_Nystrom
Buy and hold is dead! The extreme market volatility over the last decade should make this abundantly clear to even casual market watchers, but it is something that good traders have known all along: You trade securities, you don't marry them. Buying a stock is not a commitment "until death do you part." A friend once told me the story of a man he knew who worked at Worldcom during the go-go 90's and had his entire 401(k) invested in the company stock. He was waiting for his account to hit $2 million, and then he was going to cash out. It was almost there - $1.8m, $1.9m - something like that when the stock began its terminal decline. Instead of selling, he held on until the bitter end, until all was lost. Moral of the story: The market is the utlimate authority. It does not listen to you, nor care about your dreams & desires, so you had best learn to listen to it.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Brainwashing of the American Investor - Academic Investment Book Reviews / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Steve_Selengut
Steve Selengut's "Brainwashing of the American Investor" is an eye-opening and intelligent book, which offers an analysis of the investment industry and a smart and practical guide to non-professional investors. Selengut is wary of the conventional wisdom of investing professionals, who appear to have abandoned the tried and true principles of investment, in favor of super-hype, organizational conformity, and greed. Selengut's back-to-basics approach builds on his critique of the Wall Street hypsters and their bandwagon mentalities. Instead, he serves up a clear set of economic principles, mixed with sound commonsensical advice.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 24, 2007
Perhaps the Universe will Never Blink / Politics / Resources & Reviews
By: Anwaar_Hussain
Bill Bryson's ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything' is a truly remarkable book. It is an ambitious attempt to decipher the mysteries of universe. Genuinely enthralling, it is a unique travelogue of science. Starting from the immensity of the universe, it beams us into the heart of sub-atomic particles and then some more. It is a captivating scientific journal and an extraordinary collection of information.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The Apprentice 2007 - BBC One - 9pm Wednesdays - Meet the Boys / Politics / Resources & Reviews
By: Sarah_Jones
Tre Azam
Age: 27
Qualifications: 2 A-Levels
Career: Marketing and Design Consultant
Home town: Loughton, Essex
Profile: Forthright, opinionated and a bit of a maverick, Tre is a tough hard worker who knows what he wants and is determined to get it. He started work aged 10, building PCs in his father's factory. By the age of 16 he was teaching clients how to build computers and training them in electronics and software. At 17 he was working in his family's software and hardware business in Europe and Asia before moving to America where he ran the company for more than two years. In his teens he spent over a year in hospital recovering from a serious car accident which left him in a wheelchair, however he is now fully recovered. His hobbies include weights, boxing, martial arts and philosophy.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The Apprentice 2007 - BBC 1 - 9pm Wednesdays - Meet the Girls / Politics / Resources & Reviews
By: Sarah_Jones
Jadine Johnson
Age: 27
Qualifications: Banking Exams
Career: Financial Adviser
Home town: Harrow, Middlesex
Profile: A street smart, strong woman with ambition and attitude, Jadine knows that she will be tested but she is ready for the challenge. Her first taste for business came as a seven-year-old, when she shrunk crisp packets in the oven and sold them on as key rings for 20 pence each to her friends. Her first job was at McDonalds; she was employed on the spot and then worked a 13-hour shift. A passionate single mother, after winning a place at university, Jadine decided to quit to support her daughter. She later moved into banking and was promoted three times in her first year. As well as running an invitation-only club night, her passions include fashion, music, singing and cars.
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Boardroom blitz! Sir Alan raises the bar as The Apprentice moves to BBC One – starting Wednesday 28 March at 9pm / Companies / Resources & Reviews
By: Sarah_Jones
Multi-award-winning series The Apprentice is back for a 12-week run, now on BBC One , from Wednesday 28 March at 9pm.
The critically acclaimed show returns for a third series to challenge a new group of 16 high-fliers to test their skills in this unique business series. The standard of applicants was higher than ever with over 10,000 ambitious hopefuls applying for the coveted, six-figure salaried job in tough talking tycoon Sir Alan Sugar 's business empire.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Best investing books - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator / Stock-Markets / Resources & Reviews
By: Nadeem_Walayat
$14 (32% discount) |
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator' by Edwin Lefèvre is probably one of the best and well known books on the subject of financial speculation, the book was published as the fictional biography of “Larry Livingston,” but is actually an biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the first famous stock & commodity traders ever. The man started trading after working as a boy in a brokerage house and trading in several of the tiny brokerages called “bucket shops” where small time traders would bet against the house, and eventually went on to become one of the most influential and widely-known traders of his day. He made, lost, and re-made millions at a time. What you will get from the book are some classic mistakes and the lessons learned from them; some of the best catch phrases in the business; insight into how the markets were manipulated then and probably still are now. One of the most important lessons mentioned in the book is that a trader does not have to be invested in the market all the time. This is the book from which almost every subsequent general trading book is derived. If you have ever wondered where the trading rule "Never average down" came from, just turn to page 154. Where did the comparison between greed and fear first originate ? Look to page 130.  |
