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    <![CDATA[The Alchemy of Finance]]>
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    <![CDATA[Critical Praise forThe Alchemy of Finance      <p>&quot;The Alchemy of Finance joins Reminiscences of a Stock Operator as a timeless instructional guide of the marketplace.&quot; <br/>      ––Paul Tudor Jones<br/>      From the Foreword to the First Edition      <p>&quot;An extraordinary . . . inside look into the decision-making process of the most successful money manager of our time. Fantastic.&quot; <br/>      ––The Wall Street Journal      <p>&quot;A breathtakingly brilliant book. Soros is one of the core of masters . . . who can actually begin to digest the astonishing complexity . . . of the game of finance in recent years.&quot; <br/>      ––Esquire      <p>&quot;A seminal investment book . . . it should be read, underlined, and thought about page by page, concept by idea. . . . He’s the best pure investor ever . . . probably the finest analyst of the world in our time.&quot;<br/>      ––	Barton M. Biggs<br/>      Director, BKF Capital Group, Inc.      <p>Updated to include a new Preface and Introduction by Soros, and a Foreword by Paul A. Volcker      <p>George Soros is unquestionably the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today. Dubbed by BusinessWeek as &quot;The Man Who Moves Markets,&quot; Soros once made a billion dollars by betting that the British pound would be devalued. Soros is not merely a man of finance, but a thinker to reckon with as well. In The Alchemy of Finance, this extraordinary man reveals the investment strategies that have made him &quot;a superstar among money managers&quot;(The New York Times).</p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the first book i ever read in finance... very powerful]]></body>
    
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