Category: Business

February 18, 2016

Five Archetypal Investing Mistakes That Have Bedeviled Investors Through the Ages

Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing, authors of INVESTMENT: A HISTORY, break down the five investing mistakes that they see repeated again and again throughout the history of investing.

February 17, 2016

The Investment Challenge

Read an excerpt from the Introduction to INVESTMENT: A HISTORY, by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing.

February 16, 2016

A conversation with Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing, authors of "Investment: A History"

Read an interview with Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing on the history and future of investing.

February 4, 2016

Recipes for Cooked Books

Read an excerpt from Amit Kumar’s SHORT SELLING: FINDING UNCOMMON SHORT IDEAS.

February 3, 2016

Due Diligence in Short Selling

Read an excerpt from the first chapter of Amit Kumar’s SHORT SELLING: FINDING UNCOMMON SHORT IDEAS.

February 2, 2016

On Reading Short Selling

Read Amit Kumar’s Preface to SHORT SELLING: FINDING UNCOMMON SHORT IDEAS.

December 9, 2015

Laborers Who Keep Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed — Best Business Writing 2015

An excerpt from The Best Business Writing 2015 examines how social media sites are moderated.

December 8, 2015

Dean Starkman on the Current State of Business Journalism

“This collection of brilliant journalism … is a testament to business journalism’s resilience in an age of extreme disruption in its own business — media — and to the fact that the business-news ocean is vast and full of unexpected...

December 1, 2015

RMB Inclusion into SDR: Hyperbole and Reality

Read a guest post on the IMF’s decision to accept RMB, the Chinese currency, into the currency basket that made up its Special Drawing Rights (SDR), by Ho-fung Hung, author of THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD.

October 28, 2015

International Climate Negotiations

In advance of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in early December, brush up on the history and future of international climate negotiations with this excerpt from GREEN CAPITAL: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON GROWTH, by Christian de Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet, translated by Michael Westlake!

October 27, 2015

Introducing Green Capital

Read an excerpt from the introduction to GREEN CAPITAL: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON GROWTH, by Christian de Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet, translated by Michael Westlake!

October 9, 2015

Wall Streeters: Michael Milken, Junk Bond King, Part 2

Read a second excerpt from chapter on Michael Milken from WALL STREETERS: THE CREATORS AND CORRUPTORS OF AMERICAN FINANCE, by Edward Morris!