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The Naked Capitalist
W. Cleon Skousen
Buccaneer Books, 1993
The Naked Capitalist By W. Cleon Skousen
A Christian Review of, "The Naked Capitalist" By W. Cleon Skousen
"A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing ...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Capitalism (Politically Incorrect Guides)
Robert P. Murphy
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2007
A wonderful beginner's guide
This was one of the first books I read when I became interested in money and economics. The book is well thought out and explains the benefits of the free market and capitalism. Far too many people feel the people who earn lots of money do not deserve it, but that is ...
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Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services
Guy Kawasaki, Michele Moreno
Collins Business, 2000
Valuable advice that stands the test of time
Guy Kawasaki is a genius. I mean it: here's a guy who wrote a book back in 1998, who is most famous for being the Chief Evangelist at Apple. Yet his book bypasses tech talk altogether as its focus and succeeds at presenting us with a volume that, even ten years later, ...
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Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (Icons of America)
Steve Fraser
Yale University Press, 2008
Wall Street
Wonderful, thorough history of the banking industry and Wall Street since the inception of this country. A must read!
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
Bantam, 2008
Good introductions.
It is a good book for introductions to life. Read the book as a references, it has good values. Author put his reputation on the line to be tested. Like the book and like the humor inside of it. Recommend it.
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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
G. Edward Griffin
Amer Media, 2002
The history of financial enslavement
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up ...
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The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros
Mark Tier
St. Martin's Griffin, 2006
an NLP approach: study the thinking of successful investors
Author Mark Tier applies Neuro-Linguistic Programming to investing. NLP is a discipline that says if you want to be good at something, emulate the thoughts of those who are masters and your own performance will follow. He collects all the information he can on Warren ...
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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Roger Lowenstein
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
Excellent
Well researched, analyzed, and written.
I see why Buffett was silently acceptive in autographing it. Superb job in reporting both analytical economics and personal life. Truth.
I will read more from this author.
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
Vintage, 2004
An unbiased look
I was very impressed with the skill of Ron Chernow when I read "Alexander Hamilton". After such an impressive work I decided that I would take on "Titan" which deals with the life of John D. Rockefeller. Chernow did not disappoint, and in some ways this may be the ...
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Fifty Years in Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics)
Henry Clews
Wiley, 2006
When giants walked Wall Street
While there is a lot of investment wisdom to be gleamed from this book, I recommend it more for the stories of larger than life giants who made and lost vast fortunes waging war amongst themselves with shares and debentures instead of cannons. If like me you believe ...
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The Myth of the Robber Barons
Young Amer Foundatio, 1987
"Robber Barons" Ought to be Called "Productive Geniuses"
Burton Folsom's The Myth of the Robber Barons is a short, but excellent book that argues that the mislabeled "Robber Barons" of the 19th century became wealthy not because they robbed anyone but because they offered quality products/services at record low prices. These ...
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Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor
Janet Lowe
Wiley, 2007
Worth reading.
I thought this was a good book as far as understanding what is in the mind of Buffet. I do not follow him religiously like some so this book gave book a good insight on what type of human and investor he is. This is a Warren Buffet exam cram book. Warren is a very ...
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Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
Spencer E. Ante
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
WWII and Venture Capital History Lovers - A MUST READ!!!!
Americans always talk of saving France during WWII, yet at the same time, here was an intriguing French immigrant who rose to be a top professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, a founder of the venture capital industry, founder of INSEAD the European ...
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The Warren Buffett Way
Wiley, 2004
Warren Buffett Secrets For Market Success
Hagstrom obtains permission to quote from Berkshire Hathaway reports and provides case studies of Buffet's major investments. His investment and acquistion strategies that have resulted in him winning the market time and time again are reviewed extensively. Buffett ...
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Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
George Soros
Wiley, 1995
Self indulgent but interesting
This is a commissioned book. Basically, a self-indulgent pseudo-autobiography written in an interview style. "my own estimation of myself is more important to me than other people's" (P249) The interview style makes this work more accesable to the average reader by ...
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