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How Bill Ackman Fooled MBIA and The World

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November 29, 2011

“We have friends in high places” Jay brown MBIA’s chairman and CEO “Markets are efficient. That’s the very basic assumption underlying everything we do here. And you attempt to challenge that? “ “You are less experienced, less knowledgeable and don’t…
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Cyber Monday Reading/Deals

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November 27, 2011
Cyber Monday Reading/Deals

Amazon.com is having huge Cyber monday deals…. These deals are on a variety of items and are time specific; first come first serve, and they only start and end at certain times. So keep checking the link throughout the
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The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management

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August 8, 2011

I recently finished reading The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management: How to Successfully Launch and Operate a Hedge Fund…. I was interested in the book because for my job it is vital to understand how hedge fund structures work
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Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise

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March 21, 2011
Carl E. Walter (Author), Fraser J. T. Howie (Author)

Frank Voisin is a value investor and independent analyst whose site, Frankly Speaking, contains Frank’s investment theses as well as educational material to help investors avoid value traps. Subscribe to Frank’s feed here. Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial …
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David Einhorn’s Recommended Reading List

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March 8, 2011
David Einhorn

This will be a permanent page on Value Walk, which can be found under the “Books” tab on the top menu bar. A few weeks ago I was privileged to hear David Einhorn Capital speak at the UJA (my notes…
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Book Review: Financial Shenanigans by Dr. Howard Schilit

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February 25, 2011

I meant to post this concise book review on Financial Shenanigans…, several months ago, right after I had read the book. I also had the privellege to conduct an interview with Dr Schilit, the author of the book. Below
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David Einhorn Latest Interview on Fed Policy

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January 13, 2011
David Einhorn

David Einhorn recently updated his thriller “Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue…”. DAVID EINHORN is president and co-founder of Greenlight Capital, a long-short value-oriented
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Book Review: Fooling Some of the People All of the Time

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December 13, 2010
fooling some people all the time

By Seeking Delta of http://seekingdelta.wordpress.com You aren't subscribed? If you enjoyed this post, you can subscribe by RSS or by email. More on this topic (What's this?) David Einhorn Interview On WealthTrack Book Review: …
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Black Friday Shopping List: Best Finance Books of 2010

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November 29, 2010
ipad

There were dozens of good books that were published this year related to investing and business. I thought it would be a good idea to post some of them as amazon.com is having a huge sale throughout the Thanksgiving day…
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Cornerstone Value: James P. O’Shaughnessy

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September 29, 2010
what works on wall street

By Larry Harmych of http://intelligentinvestors.org/ I recently finished a book entitled “What Works on Wall Street”… by James P. O’Shaughnessy. In this book O’Shaughnessy explains the power of passive investing. In fact, O’Shaughnessy goes over several methods of passive investing
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Interview With Dr. Howard Schilit: Author of Financial Shenanigans

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August 6, 2010
Financial shenanigans

I recently interviewed Howard Schilit, author of Financial Shenanigans. The full interview is posted on GuruFocus.com. I will post the first part of the interview here followed by a link to the full inveterview on Guru Focus. I recently finished
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Book Review:Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

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July 29, 2010
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

By Sandesh Trivedi, sandeshtrivedi@gmail.com For value investors blindly shunning tech stocks they might want to read the book, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy… by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian. Though the book might not help you
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The Art of Short Selling: What Long Only Investors Can Learn

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June 28, 2010
the art of short selling

I believe that Short Sellers do better analysis than buyers. The world is biased against them, they’re the market policemen, it’s not in the country’s best interest for short sellers to go away. Short Sellers are more patriotic than the …
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Book Review: While America Aged by Roger Lowenstein

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May 30, 2010

While America Aged… by Roger Lowenstein is a tale of one industry and two cities brought to their knees by underfunded pension plans. The industry discussed is the auto industry and the cities are New York City, and San Diego.
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Book Review: Benjamin Graham Building A Profession by Jason Zweig

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May 17, 2010

Being a loyal value investor I have read the The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis… by Benjamin Graham. The books are literally the abridged version of the bible and the bible respectively, on value investing. The books contain Benjamin Graham’s
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