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Sr |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Year First Published |
What’s it about |
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1 |
Traders Guns & Money |
Satyajit Das |
Pearson Education |
2007 |
It is impossible to make staggering amounts of money in Derivatives honestly
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2 |
Running Money |
Andy Kessler |
Harper Collins |
2005 |
Insider’s Tale through witty and whacky stories on big stakes Investing
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3 |
guns,germs and steel |
Jared Diamond |
Vintage |
1998 |
Why History unfolded so differently on different continents dividing the world between haves and have-nots
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4 |
Bull ! A History of the Boom and Bust,1982-2004 |
Maggie Mahar |
Harper Collins |
2004 |
Begins with the Intriguing Prologue on Young and Blond,Henry Blodget, the Internet Stocks Wizard who went from Darling to Damned
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5 |
Irrational Exuberance |
Robert J Shiller |
Currency Doubleday…a Division of Random House
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2005 |
Brilliant Research and Data Interpretation on House pricing that supported the development of a Theory of Bubbles…a theory that can be applied to any speculative market |
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6 |
Dirty Money BCCI: The Inside Story of the World’s Sleaziest Bank |
Mark Potts, Nicholas Kochan and Robert Whittington
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National Press Books |
1992 |
True Story of how a Financial Institution turned into a haven for terrorist gangs,arms merchants,drug dealers and sleazy dictators….how a criminal agenda laundered drug money,financed arm deals,peddled influence,bribed politicians,defrauded depositors and sponsored spies
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7 |
Conspiracy of Fools A True Story |
Kurt Eichenwald |
Broadway Books |
2005 |
A Mind Boggling True Story of Enron…of the lies,scams and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency,destroyed a marketplace and changed Washington and Wall Street forever
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8 |
Fool’s Gold |
Gillian Tett |
Little,Brown |
2009 |
Were the bankers mad? Blind? Evil? Or were they simply grotesquely greedy? Well over a decade before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008,bankers gathered for a legendary off site weekend that fueled derivative ideas that led to the biggest financial crisis since 1930s
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