The global casino

how Wall Street gambles with people and the planet

The global market in money - housed in the offshore 'shadow' banking system - holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation's taxman. Asset managers, private equity firms, and pension and sovereign wealth funds scoop up the world's savings ...

Inertia

purposeful inefficiencies in financial markets

Winner, 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Financial professionals are paid as if they were capable of "beating the market" on a regular basis. In fact, active fund managers routinely underperform low-cost index funds, and financial analysts frequently produce inaccurate stock recommendations-and many receive large fees ...

Headlines that matter

how news moves markets

Not every news announcement grabs a financial trader's attention, prompting them to initiate a buy or sell call. Glued to their screens every day, traders are alerted to important information by journalists who work with news agencies, such as Reuters, Bloomberg, Associated Press, and ...

The Little Book of Market Myths

How to Profit by Avoiding the Investing Mistakes Everyone Else Makes

Boost your investment returns by dodging the most common investing mistakes In the newly updated second edition of The Little Book of Market Myths: How to Profit by Avoiding the Mistakes Everyone Else Makes, celebrated investor and Fisher Investments' founder, Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Investment ...

Indicadores económicos

(y cómo afectan a bolsa, bonos y divisa)

En un mundo donde cada dato económico puede mover mercados y alterar decisiones empresariales, comprender la macroeconomía ya no es opcional: es esencial. Este libro es una guía clara, práctica y rigurosa para todos aquellos profesionales que operan en los mercados financieros o que, desde ...

The wolves of K Street

the secret history of how big money took over big government

A dazzling and infuriating portrait of fifty years of corporate influence in Washington, The Wolves of K Street is a "not-so-guilty pleasure" (The New York Times): irresistibly dramatic, spectacularly timely, explosive in its revelations, and impossible to put down. In the 1970s, Washington's center ...

Contemporary finance

money, risk, and public policy

A clear new finance textbook that explains essential models and practices, and how the financial world works now Contemporary Financial Markets and Institutions: Tools and Techniques to Manage Risk and Uncertainty is an ideal introduction to finance for professionals and students. It covers the basic ...

Floor rules

insider culture in financial markets

A compelling account of how markets really govern themselves, and why they often baffle and outrage outsiders One of the reasons many people believe financial markets are lawless and irrational-and rigged-is that they follow two sets of rules. The official rules, set by law or ...

How to listen when markets speak

risks, myths, and investment opportunities in a radically reshaped economy

From Wall Street to the White House, the fantasy of an eventual 'return to normal' is still alive and well. But the economic world as we know it - and the rules that govern it - are over. And few are prepared. Here, market risk expert Lawrence ...

The metaverse economy

how finance professionals can make sense of Web3

The Metaverse Economy equips fintech professionals with an in-depth understanding of the emergent economic models in the Metaverse and across Web3. In this book, fintech and metaverse experts Arun Krishnakumar and Theodora Lau help technology and financial services professionals prepare for the convergence of several ...

Chaos kings

how Wall Street traders make billions in the new age of crisis

For fans of The Black Swan and written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There's no doubt that ...

Trillions

how a band of Wall Street renegades invented the index fund and changed finance forever

In Trillions, Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid secret history of index funds, bringing to life the colourful characters behind their birth, growth and evolution into a world-conquering phenomenon. It is the untold story behind one of the most pressing financial uncertainties of ...

Desigualdades territoriales en la inclusión financiera y económica

La importancia del acceso a los servicios financieros y del rol de los intermediarios financieros ha sido recogida ampliamente en la literatura económica que constata la relación positiva que existe entre el desarrollo del sistema financiero y el desarrollo económico de los países. Estamos ante ...

La Bolsa contada con sencillez

desentrañada y explicada

En la portada aparece esquematizado el movimiento repetitivo de la Bolsa a través del indicador MACD. Este mapa del movimiento bursátil ha sido descrito y explicado por primero vez por el autor de este libro. Estudiar el movimiento de la Bolsa a través de este ...

The (Mis)behaviour of Markets

A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward

This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a few ...

Los 25 hábitos de los inversores altamente eficaces

optimiza tus inversiones en un mercado en constante cambio

En los últimos años invertir se ha convertido en una tarea algo más complicada, lo que ha provocado que los inversores busquen cada vez con más interés ese santo grial que les permita anticiparse a los cambios del mercado, minimizar los riesgos y aumentar sus ...

Financial markets and institutions

Financial Markets and Institutions takes a practical approach to the changing landscape of financial markets and institutions. The text uses core principles to introduce topics, then examines these models via real-world scenarios. Empirical applications of themes help you develop essential critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. The ...

Invested

how three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds

Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals. Who hasn't wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and otherwise, have guaranteed that they alone can ...

Shut up and keep talking

lessons on life and investing from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Bob Pisani is Senior Markets Correspondent for CNBC and has spent the past 25 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He has been on the front line of finance for all the major events of the last quarter century, including the ...

Las reglas básicas de Warren Buffett

palabras de sabiduría extraídas de las cartas del mayor inversor del mundo dirigidas a sus socios

A los 26 años, Warren Buffett fundó Buffett Partnership Limited, que existió desde 1956 hasta 1970. Durante este tiempo, escribió 33 cartas a su pequeño pero creciente grupo de socios. Estas cartas son la crónica de sus pensamientos, enfoques y reflexiones en el periodo inmediatamente ...