The common sense of money and investments

In a world where ridiculously hyped tomes promising instant financial euphoria for ordinary citizens now vie with counsel on health and sex in every bookstore, old-fashioned common sense still takes the prize. Most of the would-be gurus, not to mention their customers, would have been ...

Once in Golconda

a true drama of Wall Street, 1920-1938

Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks#who was one of the most elegant of all business writers#perfectly catches the flavor of one of history#s best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It#s packed with parallels and parables for ...

The Great Crash

1929

Where are the customers' yachts?

or a good hard look at Wall Street

This hilarious portrait of everyday Wall Street and its denizens rings as true today as it did when it was first published in 1940. Writing with a rare mixture of wry cynicism and bonhomie reminiscent of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken, Fred Schwed, Jr ...

Den of thieves

A number-one bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize winner ...

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds

A complete repackaging of the classic work about grand-scale madness, major schemes, and bamboozlement--and the universal human susceptibility to all three. This informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions, from witch burnings to the Great Crusades to the prophecies of Nostradamus.