Book Review: Stock Marketplace Trivia

The majority Stock Market Trivia (Including a Special Section: The Weird Words of Wall Street by Fed Fuld III is entertaining, too would hold out of involvement to readers who are non familiar amongst finance. As the championship suggests, it is a collection of trivia (along amongst a twain of quizzes) based on stock markets. It could every bit good hold out a distinctive vacation present.

About the Author

Fred Fuld III is a fiscal historian that previously worked inwards the fiscal industry, a stock broker too every bit an executive. His writing captures the dark sense of humor of stock brokers, who facial expression upwards the draw of piece of job of trying to acquire people to invest inwards the stock market, peradventure later their previous investments went south. He every bit good publishes the stockerblog: www.stockerblog.blogspot.com.

The majority is 150 pages, too is illustrated amongst pictures of fiscal instruments too excerpts from vintage fiscal texts from Fuld's collection.

(As a disclaimer, I volition banker's complaint that I received a review copy.)

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Fun Light Read

Stock Market Trivia is definitely a lighter majority than the others I review. I was able to become through fairly quickly. I am relatively familiar amongst or too thence of the history he relates (for example, he has a chapters on the origins of the phrase "Ponzi Scheme," too or too thence of the famed historical bubbles, such every bit the South Sea Bubble), although given the issue of entries inside the book, a fair issue were novel to me. For example, I had non come upwards across "Dead Peasant Policy" earlier (the utilization of firms to purchase life insurance on their employees, typically without their knowledge, which is patently less mutual straightaway every bit a trial of regulatory changes).

He has a for sure sum of sense of humor inside the book. For example, he gives or too thence funny mergers, such every bit the merger of Harken Energy, Herald Resources, Fallen Angels Income Fund, too Singapore Fund (which yields "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing"). It may non hold out plenty to acquire a belatedly nighttime tv set slot, only it is a squeamish suspension from reading well-nigh how diverse monetary disorders are leading to societal collapse.

Concluding Remarks

This majority is either worthwhile for a full general reader who is inwards interested inwards trivia, or somebody novel to finance who wants to larn the pregnant of the jargon the surface area is infested with.

(c) Brian Romanchuk 2016