Once a year, the managers of public companies have to fling open the doors and let the owners in -- whether they want to or not. A Weekend with Warren Buffett and Other Shareholder Meeting Adventures …
Shelve A Weekend with Warren Buffett: And Other Shareholder Meeting Adventures
From the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse before anyone else. The…
With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernste…
Shelve Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the twentieth century—an astounding net worth of $10 billion, and co…
Shelve Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer…
Shelve The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from t…
Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast …
Shelve Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are