It is not often that you come across a book that is an absolute delight to read and spans across your spectrum of interests. The Second Machine Age was that book for me and I can unequivocally say that it ...

Princeton University Economics professor Dr. Burton Malkiel has written an excellent book in A Random Walk Down Wall Street, which has sold a million copies and is periodically updated with new insights. I had the book on my reading list ...

After reading about the much publicized demise of Conde Nast’s two year old $100 million experiment called Portfolio, I stumbled across an article titled “The End” by Michael Lewis on Portfolio.com. Contrary to my initial reaction, this lengthy but brilliant ...

A hedge fund launched by a veteran bond trader and former vice-chairman of Salomon Brothers with two noble laureates and an investor road show put together by Merrill Lynch had a very good chance of succeeding. Long Term Capital Management ...

Originally published in 1923, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a very lively, entertaining and informative biography of the speculator Jesse Livermore who made and lost multi-million dollar fortunes many times over from the early 1900s through the 1930s. Jesse ...

Hedge fund manager and professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb rose to prominence after publishing his book Fooled by Randomness about the role chance plays in our lives ad the market. Along with Dr. Doom Nouriel Roubini, Taleb was one of the ...