Finance / Investment

Has the situation of Afro-American improved under the Obama Administration? The author, who is black himself, and who spent more than 20 years working as journalist for the Wall Street Journal, draws a bitter conclusion: At the time Obama started his first term in office, the... Read More

How does market sentiment among private and institutional real estate investors influence the performance of direct and indirect real estate investments? This is the question addressed by the doctoral thesis underlying this book, which divides into three essays. “The purpose of... Read More

“You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It’s the language of business and it’s an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting—how to read and interpret financi... Read More

After I had reviewed Gregory Zuckerman’s book The Greatest Trade Ever and rated it as the best book on the financial crisis by far, one of my readers was kind enough to bring another book to my attention, namely The Big Short by Michael Lewis. And sure enough, this book in no way... Read More

Time permitting, I read just about every book on the financial crisis I could lay my hands on in recent years. This one is by far the best of them. It tells the story of John Paulson and other anti-cyclically oriented investors who became aware of the bubble on the American... Read More