Business History
Author(s): Sheelah Kolhatkar
The book explores Wall Street's approach to insider trading and in the middle of it is Steven Cohen and his hedge fund S.A.C Capital.
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Black Edge
Business History
Author(s): Sheelah Kolhatkar
The book explores Wall Street's approach to insider trading and in the middle of it is Steven Cohen and his hedge fund S.A.C Capital.
The Quest
Industry History
Author(s): Daniel Yergin
Another gem by Daniel Yergin. This one does not talk only but oil, it also includes the rise of electricity, the shale gas revolution, climate change policies and biofuels development.
Commodity Trade and Finance
Business / Commodities
Author(s): Michael Tamvakis
Analysis of the fundamental variables like supply/demand, transportation and pricing, that affect different commodities (energy, agriculture and metals).
Titan
Biography
Author(s): Ron Chernow
Best book about Rockefeller and Standard Oil in my opinion. The story starts with the life of Rockefeller and the building of the company, how it gained power thanks to its size, the break up, and the last years of Rockefeller as a philanthropist.
Conspiracy of Fools
Business History
Author(s): Kurt Eichenwald
The rise and fall of Enron. The book features a lot of details about the grow of enron, their corporate policies, how they approached projects, the financial tricks and their slow and painful crash.
Computational Finance
Finance / Programming
Author(s): Argimiro Arratia
Financial methods in R including time series analysis, monte carlo simulations, technical trading and portfolio optimization.
Private Empire
Business History
Author(s): Steve Coll
History of ExxonMobil including the merger between the two companies, the exxon valdez incident, their power inside the white house, the fight against climate change evidence and much more.
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