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Number Go Up by Zeke Fauk
What is it? Number Go Up is a damning analysis of cryptocurrency that covers the dramatic rises and falls found across this speculative industry. Fauk delves into the history of how large numbers of regular people and investors became enamored with crypto and began assigning sky-high valuations to crypto tokens and startups. Fauk then deep…
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
What is it? Gregory Zuckerman details the life and work of Jim Simons, who is widely known as one of the greatest investors ever. Simons’s hedge fund Renaissance Technologies employed innovative quantitative techniques to achieve unprecedentedly high returns over several decades, rendering Simons one of the world’s richest men. However, Simons, who died in 2024…
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
What is it? In perhaps the single most controversial book on modern finance, Michael Lewis, famous for Liar’s Poker and The Big Short, gives his take on the High-Frequency Trading (HFT) firms that cropped up on Wall Street and eventually became some the largest traders by volume in the American stock market. This book served…