Recommended Books and Blogs
Here are recommended books and blogs that I have read and routinely read. If you have other suggestions please let me know.
Recommended Books (Ones that I have read):
- Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and
John Heylar - When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
- Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
- The Last Tycoons by William Cohan
- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig, and Warren E. Buffett
- The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
- Animal Spirits by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
- Fixing Global Finance by Martin Wolf
- The Subprime Solution by Robert Shiller
- Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
- Understanding US Economic Statistics, Sixth Edition, Feb 2008 Edward F McKelvey Editor, Goldman Sachs
- Warren Buffett’s Annual Shareholders Letters. Warren is a fantastic writer, and his lessons on options, current account deficits, and other economic/finance issues are truly exceptional. I wish I could boil down complicated issues into “taxi driver” conversations as well as Warren.
- The Federal Reserve Banks: Combined Financial Statements as of and for the Years Ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 and Report of Independent Auditors
- This Time is Different by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
- The Greatest Trade Ever by Gregory Zuckerman
- Stabilizing an Unstable Economy by Hyman Minsky
- The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
Recommended Blogs:
- Across the Curve
- Alphaville
- Paul Krugman
- The Baseline Scenario
- Money Supply on the Financial Times
- Wolf Exchange on the Financial Times
- Atlanta Fed’s Macro Blog
- Brad DeLong
- Project Syndicate
- Nassim Taleb
- Fed Watch
- Econoclast on the Financial Times
