What are you presently reading?

Whooops!

I meant MORTON SHULMAN. LOL


And I also finished this one:

The $100 Startup
Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
By Chris Guillebeau
I first saw this at a local thrift store, passed on the deal, then borrowed the audiobook from my library a few weeks later. It was ok I guess for beginner entrepreneurs. It may be motivational, but nothing very mathematical behind this.​
 
Finished a couple more...

TAKE YOUR MONEY AND RUN!
The true story of how one Canadian, tired of exorbitant taxes, withdrew his money and RRSP's, left Canada, and now lives tax-free happily ever after ...legally.
By Alex Doulis
★★★
I very much enjoyed this book. Having read a previous book by the same author, I was glad to pick this one up from a local thrift shop. It's a little dated now, but he hits many things spot-on. There are also a lot of interesting things in here from equities to bonds and it was pretty educational. With a lot of interesting side-stories as well.​

THE SINGLE BEST INVESTMENT
Creating Wealth with Dividend Growth
By Lowell Miller
Decent book from the library. It goes contrarian to those who prefer growth-stocks, naturally.

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I am now reading the following:

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Frederick Foresight said:
His parents must have had it in for him.
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Got a related story. Many years ago, when I lived in Albuquerque, the local news paper had a story about an Albuquerque family that was moving to Salt Lake City. The article explained that the family was moving to Salt Lake City because the dad was a "moron." I think I still have the clipping in my "Arcana" File. It was on my refrigerator for a while along with a story from the Denver Post about two guys in the back yard at a New Year's Eve Party. One, presumably the better marksman, attempted to shoot a paper cup off his buddy's head. His aim was low, although still remarkably well centered. The bullet missed the cup and passed instead through the forehead of the guy supporting the cup. I have always assumed any liquor in the cup was lost.

Currently reading Bernanke's "21st Century Monetary Policy."
 
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piezoe said:
...It was on my refrigerator for a while along with a story from the Denver Post about two guys in the back yard at a New Year's Eve Party. One, presumably the better marksman, attempted to shoot a paper cup off his buddy's head. His aim was low, although still remarkably well centered. The bullet missed the cup and passed instead through the forehead of the guy supporting the cup. I have always assumed any liquor in the cup was lost...
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Ol' Bill Tell has nothing on these guys. Great story!
 
Sunday is here. Not sure what my book list will be for next week, but here's the final for this week:

THE DEATH OF MONEY
The coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
By James Rickards
Those who used to poo-poo on these books sure are singing a different tune now adays, aren't they? Seems everyone wanted to think that stupid levels of quantitative easing was a simple solution, regardless of how big the asset bubbles were getting. This book was pretty good, touched on a lot of things, and can be a very scary book to read for those who are in denial.​

SHUT UP & KEEP TALKING
Lessons on life & investing from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
By Bob Pisani
I had never paid attention to Pisani before, and never really cared for TV type anchors. However, this book is pretty solid and has good investing advice. It was better than I had feared. I was quite surprised though he believes so much in EMH.​
 
So, I finished another one for this Sunday. Not bad, it covered multiple Wall Street issues from fat-finger orders to the 2010 flash-crash.

The author basically sums up the fact that Navinder was the main culprit behind the flash. While this is hotly debated elsewhere in this thread, the author lays out the evidence.

Navinder at the time held an almost unprecedented number of the e-mini contracts himself. Only a very few times had this number been accumulated before, and generally they were liquidated slowly during a trading day.

What Navinder did, was dump 75,000 e-minis all at ONCE onto the market. By total volume alone, he broke the market by taking a weight of over 4 BILLION dollars and dropping it, which took 20 minutes of a blood-bath to absorb.

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The irony, is that Navinder didn't realize what he had done until he went back upstairs to his room after eating. By then it was all over.

Of course... there are going to be those in this thread who still say this was all just a co-incidence...


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