Money and Finance
From his Amazon review:
- Seneca Quote
From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 17: One cannot greet Parthian royalty without bringing a gift; and in your case I cannot say farewell without paying a price. But what of it? I shall borrow from Epicurus: "The acquisition of riches has been for many...
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Power Network Draws Rich Families to Chicago Banker Byron Trott [H/T Linc] (LINK) Hell in the Pacific (2001) Documentary (LINK) This was mentioned by Dan Carlin of the Hardcore History podcast in his recent interview with Tim Ferriss (warning: there's...
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Barry Ritholtz interviews Michael Mauboussin (LINK) If you haven't watched Mauboussin's Google Talk on his book The Success Equation, I highly recommend it. In the talk, he also recommended the books The Storytelling Animal as well as The Halo...
- Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value Of Values - By Lawrence A. Cunningham
Larry Cunningham, author and editor of The Essays of Warren Buffett, is coming out with a new book later this year, which will hopefully be read by a few of the media that continually ask the same succession plan questions over and over again. Link to...
- Bill Gates: Growing Enough Food To Feed The World
How can we feed a growing population in the midst of climate change and an appetite for more meat? These factors and more are straining the world’s agricultural capacity and pushing up the cost of food, which makes it difficult for the world’s poorest...
Money and Finance
Nassim Taleb on the book "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty"
From his Amazon review:
This is the best contemporary economics books I've read so far. a) There is a central point, b) The central point is clear -a version of the Golden Rule of symmetry and exploitation, c) It is convincing. Some agents try to exploit the system and others, other agents contribute and make it grow.
Some reviewers nitpick here and there but the idea is loud and clear. After reading this book I started looking at countries & development in a different way.
Book: Why NationsFail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Audio book: Why NationsFail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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- Seneca Quote
From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 17: One cannot greet Parthian royalty without bringing a gift; and in your case I cannot say farewell without paying a price. But what of it? I shall borrow from Epicurus: "The acquisition of riches has been for many...
- Links
Power Network Draws Rich Families to Chicago Banker Byron Trott [H/T Linc] (LINK) Hell in the Pacific (2001) Documentary (LINK) This was mentioned by Dan Carlin of the Hardcore History podcast in his recent interview with Tim Ferriss (warning: there's...
- Links
Barry Ritholtz interviews Michael Mauboussin (LINK) If you haven't watched Mauboussin's Google Talk on his book The Success Equation, I highly recommend it. In the talk, he also recommended the books The Storytelling Animal as well as The Halo...
- Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value Of Values - By Lawrence A. Cunningham
Larry Cunningham, author and editor of The Essays of Warren Buffett, is coming out with a new book later this year, which will hopefully be read by a few of the media that continually ask the same succession plan questions over and over again. Link to...
- Bill Gates: Growing Enough Food To Feed The World
How can we feed a growing population in the midst of climate change and an appetite for more meat? These factors and more are straining the world’s agricultural capacity and pushing up the cost of food, which makes it difficult for the world’s poorest...