Financial Market Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book Review No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

Summary of the Book
Harry Markopolos introduces the book to the reader on the accounted date of December 11, 2008. December 11, 2008 was a crucial day Bernie Madoff was arrested. Madoff was arrested for creating and running a Ponzi scheme. The Ponzi scheme was the largest in history of United States. Markopolos makes sure that the reader comprehends the revelations by incorporating a short story of a man in a plane. The man is shocked by the streaming exposures on the CNBC. The man reveals to his wife that they have lost millions of dollars they had invested with Madoff. However, the ...

Introduction

Casino Capitalism is a vivid description of the international financial markets, their behavior, and the economic strength they yield to various entities. The book goes on to describe the advantages of international financial markets and some of the evils associated with the same. The author, Susan Strange was a former student of the British international relations studies; she is mostly renowned for her contributions to the creation of the international political economy. Apart from her major publication of the Casino Capitalism in 1986, she also published other books, namely: States and Markets (1988), The Retreat of the State (1996) ...

The book focuses on the financial aspects of investing in stocks. The author’s main contentions are that long term investment in the stocks is cheap to the investor and yields higher income than short term investments. The author backs these sentiments with an in depth research and analysis that shows the strategies and steps that can be used to accumulate portfolio with high returns at low risk. These contentions are in tandem with the historical information, which the author has also presented. The historical records show how the long term stocks have turned out to be low risk ...

The book When genius failed: the rise and fall of long-term capital management created by Roger Lowenstein, popular financial journalist, helps reader to understand the general reasons of economic crisis. It is important to mention that the author had gained great experience in the sphere of fund market analysis before he wrote the book to be discussed. He worked for "Wall Street Journal" and wrote article for well-known magazines and newspapers initiating reports on finance. The analysis of LTCM was conducted by the author. This company had a great impact within the financial market that is why Lowenstein accepted ...