|
Sr |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Year First Published |
 What’s it about |
|
 1 |
 Traders Guns & Money |
 Satyajit Das |
 Pearson Education |
 2007 |
 It is impossible to make staggering amounts of money in Derivatives honestly  |
|
 2 |
 Running Money |
 Andy Kessler |
 Harper Collins |
 2005 |
 Insider’s Tale through witty and whacky stories on big stakes Investing  |
|
 3 |
 guns,germs and steel |
 Jared Diamond |
 Vintage |
 1998 |
 Why History unfolded so differently on different continents dividing the world between haves and have-nots  |
|
 4 |
 Bull !  A History of the Boom and Bust,1982-2004 |
 Maggie Mahar |
 Harper Collins |
 2004 |
 Begins with the Intriguing Prologue on Young and Blond,Henry Blodget, the Internet Stocks Wizard who went from Darling to Damned  |
|
 5 |
 Irrational Exuberance |
 Robert J Shiller |
 Currency Doubleday…a Division of Random House    |
 2005 |
 Brilliant Research and Data Interpretation on House pricing that supported the development of a Theory of Bubbles…a theory that can be applied to any speculative market |
|
 6 |
 Dirty Money  BCCI: The Inside Story of the World’s Sleaziest Bank |
 Mark Potts, Nicholas Kochan and Robert Whittington  |
 National Press Books |
 1992 |
 True Story of how a Financial Institution turned into a haven for terrorist gangs,arms merchants,drug dealers and sleazy dictators….how a criminal agenda laundered drug money,financed arm deals,peddled influence,bribed politicians,defrauded depositors and sponsored spies  |
|
 7 |
 Conspiracy of Fools A True Story |
 Kurt Eichenwald |
 Broadway Books |
 2005 |
 A Mind Boggling True Story of Enron…of the lies,scams and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency,destroyed a marketplace and changed Washington and Wall Street forever  |
|
 8 |
 Fool’s Gold |
 Gillian Tett |
 Little,Brown |
 2009 |
 Were the bankers mad? Blind? Evil? Or were they simply grotesquely greedy? Well over a decade before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008,bankers gathered for a legendary off site weekend that fueled derivative ideas that led to the biggest financial crisis since 1930s  |
A Lion’s eye on the Bulls and Bears
“In India, companies may fall sick, but promoters rarely do!”
