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Blowing Up: How Nassim Taleb turned the inevitability of disaster into an investment strategy.
An exploration of the role of luck and uncertainty in the financial marketplace, and how it challenges the notion of skill in investing.
cpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.comAlmost every fund’s returns are dwarfed by those of the Medallion Fund, which exists within Renaissance and is open almost exclusively to its employees. It averaged a greater than 70% annual return (before fees) for more than twenty years starting in the mid-1990s. After generating lifetime profits of more than $55 billion,
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
everyone is betting on one side, then the point spread will have to move, and it will probably move too far. In fact, I have a football betting system that looks at 30 guys who make picks versus the spread. When 25 or more of them pick the same team, which happens only about six times a year, the other team will win 80% of the time. Now, is that be
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The astute investor Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.
Michael Lewis • Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
A self-confessed nerd with a Bachelor's degree in Astrophysics, Liv Boeree combined her science background and passion for games to become one of the most recognizable faces in professional poker. She was the #1 ranked female player from 2014-2016 and holds both European Poker Tour and World Series of Poker championship titles after winning more t
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The Investment Answer: Learn to Manage Your Money & Protect Your Financial Future
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someone with an informed, original opinion about what the betting line should be, usually formulated through painstaking statistical modeling.