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Riley, Jason L. - Please Stop Helping Us. How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Posted By : Dr. Rainer Zitelmann
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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...
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Mathieu, Anna - The Impact of Sentiment on Real Estate Investments

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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...
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Buffett, Mary - Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage

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“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...
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Lewis, Michael - The Big Short. Inside the Doomsday Machine

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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...
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Zuckerman, Gregory - The greatest trade ever. How John Paulson bet against the markets and made $20 Billion

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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...
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