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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: The World's First Stock Exchange - 1 views

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc world first stock exchange

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  • Aldrey Dyman on 13 Jun 14
     
    In his famous book Confusión de confusions Joseph Penso de la Vega wrote: "If one were to lead a stranger through the streets of Amsterdam and ask him where he was, he would answer 'among speculators,' for there is no corner where one does not talk shares." And, Lodewijk Petram adds, "the people of Amsterdam were talking about options, too, and forward selling, quotations and prices, risk and speculation-all relating to the trade in the shares of the Dutch East India Company (the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC), which had been established in 1602. Fortunes were made and lost, and the men who engaged in this trade were wholly in thrall to it." Petram did extensive archival research, including mining the records of active traders, to shed new light on de la Vega's account of the Amsterdam stock market. The Dutch edition of his book appeared in 2011. Columbia Business School Publishing/Columbia University Press has just released the English edition, The World's First Stock Exchange, skillfully translated by Lynne Richards. It's an engrossing tale.
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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Book Review on '935 Lies' by Charles Lewis - 1 views

With the founding of the Center for Public Integrity in the 1980s, Charles Lewis probably did more than anyone else to launch institutional nonprofit journalism in America. So it is worth paying at...

Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Review 935 Lies by Charles Lewis

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Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Review: Artemis Fowl - 1 views

As a Sherlock Holmes fan, I'm already partial to a character whose qualities include a calculating mind and a knack for intelligent quips. If he happens to be the main character in a heist plot, th...

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Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Book Review: The Seven Dials Mystery - 1 views

Starting the year is a look-back on a classic from the Queen of Mysteries herself Agatha Christie, known for, well, great mystery novels. The Seven Dials Mystery started out lightly in a country h...

Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Book Review: The Seven Dials Mystery

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From the Library: The hesitant traveler heads abroad | Book Reviews Dyman Associates Pu... - 1 views

NORWOOD The world has changed immensely since I took a trip overseas more than a decade ago. My personal world has changed as well. Last time I traveled across the pond, I didn’t have childre...

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Clash Of The Financial Pundits - 1 views

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Brown and Macke Clash Of The Financial Pundits

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  • Aldrey Dyman on 11 Jun 14
     
    How the Media Influences Your Investment Decisions for Better or Worse by Joshua M. Brown and Jeff Macke (McGraw-Hill, 2014) is a book by financial pundits about financial pundits. It alternates between reflections on the financial media (I assume written by Josh Brown) and interviews conducted by Jeff Macke. The interviewees are Jim Rogers, Ben Stein, Karen Finerman, Henry Blodget, Herb Greenberg, James Altucher, Barry Ritholtz, and Jim Cramer. Since both authors are members of the financial media (Brown is author of The Reform Broker blog and a regular contributor to CNBC, Macke is the host of Breakout on Yahoo Finance), the reader can't expect to be told: "just turn off the news." Instead, the authors try to explain which pundits may be worth listening to and which ones are just noise, or worse. For investors who are not intrinsically skeptical and who have no idea of how to separate the wheat from the chaff, the authors offer a few good pointers. For the rest of us-hardened, cynical folk that we are, the interviews offer some good tidbits. The book has a strange subtext, along the lines of "I once was lost but now I'm found." Jeff Macke recounts his career-killing "Car People" episode on the now defunct evening program CNBC Reports and his subsequent emotional descent and recovery. And he interviews three insiders who to a greater or lesser degree faced their own professional crises: Henry Blodget, banned from the securities industry but now the editor and CEO of Business Insider; Jim Cramer, who took a drubbing on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show; and James Altucher, who seems to specialize in failing and bouncing back-and writing about it. Whom do I personally consider worth listening to? First, those who readily admit they don't know the answer. Bob Shiller comes to mind here. Second, those who move markets, such as David Tepper. And third, those who are both
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Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Harper Lee agrees to ebook version of To Kil... - 1 views

Harper Lee has agreed for To Kill a Mockingbird to be made available as an ebook and digital audiobook, filling one of the biggest gaps in the digital library. In a rare public statement released ...

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: 'Unstoppable' by Ralph Nader - 1 views

Ralph Nader wants liberals and conservatives to work together. In his new book, "Unstoppable", he cites many instances in which such cooperation ought to be possible, at least theoretically. But th...

Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Review: 'Unstoppable' by Ralph Nader

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: 12 Classic Tales From The World Of Wall S... - 1 views

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    Resurrecting a 45-year-old book, Bill Gates included Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street on his 2014 summer reading list. His enthusiasm ("Warren Buffett recommended this book to me back in 1991, and it's still the best business book I've ever read"-and claims it's Warren Buffett's favorite business book, too) was contagious. With prodding by Gates's team, the out-of-print book was reissued as an e-book by Open Road, and as I write this post it's Amazon's #1 best seller in commerce and #2 in books. John Brooks originally published these business stories in The New Yorker, so it goes without saying that they are well written. Describing the stock market as "the daytime adventure serial of the well-to-do," Brooks devotes the first chapter to a blow-by-blow account of the "little crash" and rapid recovery that occurred in the last week of May 1962. On Monday the Dow dropped more than it had on any day except October 28, 1929. By Thursday, after the Wednesday Memorial Day holiday, it closed "slightly above the level where it had been before all the excitement began." The infrastructure in place at the time could not cope with the overwhelming trading volume. On Tuesday, May 29, "there was something very close to a complete breakdown of the reticulated, automated, mind-boggling complex of technical facilities that made nationwide stocktrading possible in a huge country where nearly one out of six adults was a stockholder. Many orders were executed at prices far different from the ones agreed to by the customers placing the orders; many others were lost in transmission, or in the snow of scrap paper that covered the Exchange floor, and were never executed at all.
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Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Book Review: Prince Caspian (The Return to Narnia) - 1 views

It's always a joy to rediscover old favorites, especially something from famous novelist CS Lewis. His classic series of fantasy novels for children has already spawned three movie adaptations, b...

Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Book Review: Prince Caspian (The Return to Narnia)

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Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Reviews on Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters in th... - 1 views

Atul Gawande, a Boston surgeon explores the issues of aging and death in this book which, among other books dealing with the same subjects, echoes the driving desire for awareness of the human cond...

Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Reviews on Being Mortal Medicine & What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

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