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Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
Monkey Business
John Rolfe and Peter Troob
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
One Up On Wall Street
Peter Lynch and John Rothchild
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
Good to Great
Jim Collins
How to Invest
David M. Rubenstein
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
When Genius Failed
Roger Lowenstein
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar
Den of Thieves
James B. Stewart
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini
King of Capital
David Carey and John E. Morris
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Robert Z. Aliber, Charles P. Kindleberger, and Robert N. McCauley
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Principles
Ray Dalio
The Caesars Palace Coup
Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap
The Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman
The World for Sale
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
Zero to One
Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Against the Gods
Peter L. Bernstein
American Kingpin
Nick Bilton
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Going Infinite
Michael Lewis
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
The Alchemy of Finance
George Soros
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
The Little Book That Still Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt
The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks
The Spider Network
David Enrich
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
Joel Greenblatt
Adaptive Markets
Andrew W. Lo
Am I Being Too Subtle?
Sam Zell
Billion Dollar Whale
Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
Boomerang
Michael Lewis
Chip War
Chris Miller
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
Philip A. Fisher
Dead in the Water
Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
Fixed Income Securities
Frank J. Fabozzi
Flash Crash
Liam Vaughan
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
Kochland
Christopher Leonard
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
Margin of Safety
Seth A. Klarman
Mastering the Market Cycle
Howard Marks
Money Men
Dan McCrum
Moneyball
Michael Lewis
More Money Than God
Sebastian Mallaby
Panic
Michael Lewis
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
Ray Dalio
Range
David Epstein
Red Notice
Bill Browder
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd
The Bogle Effect
Eric Balchunas
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
The Key Man
Simon Clark and Will Louch
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
The Price of Time
Edward Chancellor
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
The Warren Buffett Way
Robert G. Hagstrom
Think Again
Adam Grant
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
Titan
Ron Chernow
What It Takes
Stephen A. Schwarzman
A World Without Work
Daniel Susskind
Amazon Unbound
Brad Stone
An Ugly Truth
Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
Animal Spirits
George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Boom and Bust
William Quinn and John D. Turner
Buffett
Roger Lowenstein
California Burning
Katherine Blunt
Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Common Sense
Joel Greenblatt
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Dark Towers
David Enrich
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Anne Case and Angus Deaton
Debt
David Graeber
Deep Value
Tobias E. Carlisle
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
Factfulness
Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Firefighting
Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, and Henry M. Paulson Jr.
If Then
Jill Lepore
Irrational Exuberance
Robert J. Shiller
Just Keep Buying
Nick Maggiulli
Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
Lying for Money
Dan Davies
Makers and Takers
Rana Foroohar
Misbehaving
Richard H. Thaler
Money for Nothing
Thomas Levenson
Narrative Economics
Robert J. Shiller
No Filter
Sarah Frier
No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Outlive
Peter Attia and Bill Gifford
Poor Economics
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Rebecca Henderson
Safe Haven
Mark Spitznagel
Servants of the Damned
David Enrich
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Superforecasting
Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
The $100 Startup
Chris Guillebeau
The Acquirer's Multiple
Tobias E. Carlisle
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
The Biggest Bluff
Maria Konnikova
The Bond King
Mary Childs
The Buy Side
Turney Duff
The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
The Contrarian
Max Chafkin
The Cult of We
Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
The Deficit Myth
Stephanie Kelton
The Delusions of Crowds
William J. Bernstein
The Essays of Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
The Frackers
Gregory Zuckerman
The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Lords of Easy Money
Christopher Leonard
The Man Who Knew
Sebastian Mallaby
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
George Soros
The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike Jr.
The Premonition
Michael Lewis
The Price You Pay for College
Ron Lieber
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Steven Novella, Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
The Value of Everything
Mariana Mazzucato
The Wizard of Lies
Diana B. Henriques
The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth
This Time Is Different
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
Trade Wars Are Class Wars
Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis
Trillion Dollar Triage
Nick Timiraos
Trillions
Robin Wigglesworth
Understanding Wall Street
Jeffrey B. Little and Lucien Rhodes
Up Close and All In
John Mack
Value Investing
Bruce C. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Erin Bellissimo, Mark A. Cooper, and Tano Santos
Willful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan
Winning Now, Winning Later
David M. Cote
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021
Alan S. Blinder
Blitzed
Norman Ohler
Blood and Oil
Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck
Boom
Michael Shnayerson
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Expert Political Judgment
Philip E. Tetlock
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Give People Money
Annie Lowrey
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
John Adams
David McCullough
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
Quit
Annie Duke
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue
Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod
Seeking Wisdom
Peter Bevelin
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Super Pumped
Mike Isaac
The Alchemists
Neil Irwin
The Allocator's Edge
Phil Huber
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Big Con
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington
The Economics of Inequality
Thomas Piketty
The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek
The Misbehavior of Markets
Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
The Money Culture
Michael Lewis
Traders, Guns and Money
Satyajit Das
Wanting
Luke Burgis
What Works
Iris Bohnet
What Works on Wall Street
James P. O'Shaughnessy
When Money Dies
Adam Fergusson
When the Wolves Bite
Scott Wapner
1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
Anansi's Gold
Yepoka Yeebo
Bad Company
Megan Greenwell
Boom
Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
Born in Flames
Bench Ansfield
Capitalism
Sven Beckert
Chaos Kings
Scott Patterson
Character Limit
Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman
Disconnected
Lynne W. Jeter
Easy Money
Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman
False Dawn
George Selgin
Fixed
John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai
Gambling Man
Lionel Barber
How Countries Go Broke
Ray Dalio
How Not to Invest
Barry Ritholtz
Investing in U.S. Financial History
Mark J. Higgins
King Dollar
Paul Blustein
Lucky Loser
Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig
Meltdown
Duncan Mavin
Milton Friedman
Jennifer Burns
No More Tears
Gardiner Harris
Number Go Up
Zeke Faux
On the Edge
Nate Silver
Our Dollar, Your Problem
Kenneth Rogoff
Our Lives in Their Portfolios
Brett Christophers
Paper Soldiers
Saleha Mohsin
Plunder
Brendan Ballou
Private Equity
Carrie Sun
Same as Ever
Morgan Housel
Seven Crashes
Harold James
She-Wolves
Paulina Bren
Shock Values
Carola Binder
Soros on Soros
George Soros, Byron Wien, and Krisztina Koenen
Taming the Street
Diana B. Henriques
The Art of Spending Money
Morgan Housel
The Bank That Lived a Little
Philip Augar
The Big Fail
Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean
The Corporate Life Cycle
Aswath Damodaran
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
John Kay
The Facebook Effect
David Kirkpatrick
The Fund
Rob Copeland
The Hidden Globe
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The History of Money
David McWilliams
The Land Trap
Mike Bird
The Missing Billionaires
Victor Haghani and James White
The Money Trap
Alok Sama
The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto
Benjamin Wallace
The Power Law
Sebastian Mallaby
The Thinking Machine
Stephen Witt
The Trading Game
Gary Stevenson
The Trolls of Wall Street
Nathaniel Popper
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
The Wall Street Journal Complete Money and Investing Guidebook
Dave Kansas
The Wealth Ladder
Nick Maggiulli
The Winner's Curse
Richard H. Thaler and Alex O. Imas
The Yellow Pad
Robert E. Rubin
These Are the Plunderers
Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
Underground Empire
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
Unscripted
James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams
What I Learned About Investing from Darwin
Pulak Prasad
How the Economic Machine Works
Bridgewater
Bridgewater Research and Insights
Bridgewater
Cliff's Perspectives
AQR
AQR Alternative Thinking and Research Library
AQR
AQR Data Sets
AQR
Man Insights (formerly Man Institute)
Man Group
Pershing Square Holdings Annual Letters and Investor Presentations
Pershing Square
Howard Marks Memos
Oaktree
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters
Berkshire
BlackRock Investment Institute Outlook and Weekly Commentary
BlackRock
Larry Fink's Annual Chairman's Letter to Investors
BlackRock
Vanguard Economic and Market Outlook
Vanguard
How America Saves
Vanguard
GMO Research Library and Quarterly Letter
GMO
Baillie Gifford Insights
Baillie Gifford
Elm Wealth Research
Elm Wealth
Verdad Weekly Research
Verdad
Syzygy (Research Affiliates) Insights
Syzygy
Hussman Market Comment
Hussman
KKR Global Macro Outlook and Insights
KKR
KKR Private Equity 101 and Private Credit 101
KKR
Hamilton Lane Chart of the Week
Hamilton Lane
Hamilton Lane Knowledge Center
Hamilton Lane
Partners Group Private Markets Chartbook and Outlooks
Partners Group
Global Private Capital Barometer
Coller
EQT ThinQ Education Series
EQT
Brookfield Credit Quarterly and Private Credit Papers
Brookfield
The Daily Spark
Apollo
The Allocation Podcast
Apollo
Golub Capital Middle Market Report (Golub Capital Altman Index)
Golub
Golub Capital Private Credit Education and Visual Guide
Golub
Blue Owl In Focus
Blue Owl
Guide to the Markets
J.P. Morgan
Jamie Dimon's Letter to Shareholders
J.P. Morgan
Eye on the Market
J.P. Morgan
Counterpoint Global Insights (Consilient Observer)
Morgan Stanley
Top of Mind
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs Exchanges
Goldman Sachs
Thoughts on the Market
Morgan Stanley
UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook (Summary Edition)
UBS
Citi GPS: Global Perspectives & Solutions
Citi
Bank of America Institute Consumer Checkpoint
Bank of America
Schwab Market Commentary
Schwab
Lincoln Private Market Index
Lincoln
Bain Global Private Equity Report
Bain
CFA Institute Research Foundation Publications
CFA Institute Research Foundation
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
The Rise and Risks of Private Credit
IMF
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
St. Louis Fed
SEC EDGAR and the SEC's Guides to Reading Filings
SEC
Liberty Street Economics
New York Fed
Federal Reserve Financial Stability Report
Federal Reserve Board
BIS Quarterly Review and Annual Economic Report
BIS
IMF Global Financial Stability Report
IMF
Damodaran Online: Data Sets
Damodaran
Damodaran's Free Online Valuation and Corporate Finance Classes
Damodaran
Kenneth R. French Data Library
Ken French
Musings on Markets
Damodaran
Robert Shiller's Online Data (CAPE and Long-Run US Markets)
Shiller
Financial Markets (ECON 252) with Robert Shiller
Shiller
MIT 15.401 Finance Theory I (Andrew Lo)
MIT OCW
Invest Like the Best
Colossus
Capital Allocators
Capital Allocators
Acquired
Acquired
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Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Anne Case
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Bryan Burrough
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Byron Wien
Cara Santa Maria
Carmen M. Reinhart
Carola Binder
Caroline Criado Perez
Carrie Sun
Cass R. Sunstein
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Charles Duhigg
Charles P. Kindleberger
Charles T. Munger
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Jennifer Burns
Jill Lepore
Jim Collins
Jocko Willink
Joe Nocera
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Joel Slemrod
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John Kay
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Mack
John Rolfe
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John Y. Campbell
Joshua Rosner
Judd Kahn
Justin Scheck
Kate Conger
Katherine Blunt
Kenneth Rogoff
Kit Chellel
Krisztina Koenen
Lawrence A. Cunningham
Leif Babin
Liam Vaughan
Liaquat Ahamed
Lionel Barber
Lucien Rhodes
Luke Burgis
Lynne W. Jeter
Malcolm Gladwell
Margaret Heffernan
Maria Konnikova
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Matthew C. Klein
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Nick Timiraos
Nicole Perlroth
Norman Ohler
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Olivier Sibony
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Satyajit Das
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Turney Duff
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Warren Buffett
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William N. Thorndike Jr.
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