Posts Tagged ‘review’
ECONned by Yves Smith book review
Yves Smith runs the popular financial blog naked capitalism. This is a review of her first book ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism. It puts forward the case that flawed economic theory, and the influential followers of those theories, have played a large part in the economic crisis which [...]
Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis – book review
Liar's Poker is the story of Salomon Brothers as told through Michael Lewis. He joined Salomon in the mid-80's and went through their training course before becoming a bond salesman. The story is a mixture of his personal experiences of learning how to sell bonds and a look at the 80's history of Salomon and their mortgage bond department. [...]
The Naked Trader by Robbie Burns – book review
Robbie Burns quit his job in 2001 to become a full time trader in the stock market. He has proved to be a very successful trader building up a substantial sum in his ISA pension. In this very light hearted book he explains how he goes about picking the right shares to invest in. He discusses how to understand company finances, how to choose [...]
Fool’s Gold by Gillian Tett – Book review
Fool's Gold is the story of how mortgaged backed CDOs (collatorised debt obligations) were created and how they played a major role in the bank collapses and recession of 2007-2009. The book largely focuses on how J.P. Morgan set up the teams of people who created these products and how the products evolved over time. J.P. Morgan created these [...]
Review: Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile
"Cityboy": Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile is a novel by Geraint Anderson based on the years he spent working as a utilities analyst for a variety of banks in the City of London. Geraint first started writing an anonymous column called ‘Cityboy’, which appeared each week in the free evening paper ‘thelondonpaper’. The column became [...]
Review of CMC’s CFD and Forex trading platform and service
CMC are a well known CFD, Forex and spread betting company. I signed up to try the service. Signup procedure You have to choose whether you want a CFD, Forex or spread betting account. The spread betting account is web based and the CFD and Forex accounts are run from within a Java application called MarketMaker. There is no need to sign up [...]
Review: Who runs Britain by Robert Peston
Robert Peston is the BBC business editor. You’ll probably know his name because when the credit crunch was making headlines, Robert Peston changed from being someone who just reported the news to someone who was the news. His reports became closely followed by the financial world and what he said could move individual shares and even influenced [...]
Review: Diary of a CFD Trader by Catherine Davey
Catherine Davey is a regular writer of trading articles. Perhaps to prove that she could put her money where her mouth is she decided to spend three months (14 weeks) trading CFDs and write a diary of her progress to show that it is possible to make money this way. As she soon discovers it isn't as easy as she initially though. Her [...]
