Book Reviews
Book Review: Bad Money
The title, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, pretty much sums up the book’s thesis. This is actually Kevin Phillips’ third book on the subject matter, the first two being - American Theocracy and Wealth and Democracy. I haven’t read the first two of his books, but he freely admits [...]
read more »Book Review: Winning with the Dow’s Losers
I read Winning with the Dow’s Losers by Charles Carlson years ago, but haven’t really thought about it until recently. As you might guess, this is basically a book about the “Dogs of the Dow” strategy first publicized by Michael O’Higgins in his book, Beating the Dow. O’Higgins claims to have discovered this strategy in [...]
read more »Book Review: Margin of Safety
Finally, I think I’ve had this book in my sidebar for almost 6 months now. It’s difficult finding time to read these days, but I’m doing my best to read a bit each day on my commute to work and when I find off hours on the weekends. I must apologize to my readers who [...]
read more »Book Review: Contrarian Ripple Trading
Finally, got some time to get through Contrarian Ripple Trading by Aiden McNamara and Martha Brozyna. Actually, it’s a very quick read and short by design. The authors go to great lengths in their introduction to describe their intentions not to write a tome filled with unnecessary gobbledygook but to simply and efficiently describe their [...]
read more »Contrarian Ripple Trading
Say what? I was recently contacted by Martha Brozyna, one of the co-authors, of the book Contrarian Ripple Trading and she offered to get me a copy of this book to read and review. I do accept these generous offers from time to time but, as many readers of this blog can probably tell, I’m [...]
read more »Book Review: Active Value Investing
Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range Bound Market written by Vitaliy Katsenelson debuted in October. Vitaliy was actually gracious enough to send me a copy (or two) of the book to review and, unfortunately, it took me quite a while to find the time to get through the book. I feel bad, but hopefully [...]
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