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The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan, and Dave Jenks Rating: ★★ Date Finished: November 5th, 2016 Reading Time: Ten days In a bull market, everyone seems like a genius. Though the advice contained in this book
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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance by Emanuel Derman Rating: ★★ Date Finished: September 7th, 2016 Reading Time: Four days I think that Emanuel Derman was the perfect person to have written this book. A pioneering
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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: August 3rd, 2016 Reading Time: Two days If the bubble bursts in the next few years, this will be shelved in the hall of fame. Since
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Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: April 18th, 2016 Reading Time: Ten hours over a week An ambitious project that falls short. I found the first 200 pages to be helpful. In fact, they were a great source of inspiration. However, as
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God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader by Mark Andrew Ritchie Rating: ★★ Date Finished: December 29th, 2015 Reading Time: Two days I was fooled by the title. The “commodities trader” part is maybe 5% of the book,
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The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort Rating: ★★ Date Finished: April 11th, 2015 Reading Time: A week I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over again. The Duchess, “loins,” Ludes–good god. Themes that are
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The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess by Turney Duff Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 20th, 2013 Reading Time: Two days My favorite Wall Street non-fiction book. The Buy Side is leagues above the benchmark for
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