Category Archives: QF

This is an account of one student’s experience of going through the Harvard MBA program, written by a former (and current) editor at the Financial Times. It is not unflawed, but is nevertheless highly readable and generally fascinating. I recommend … Continue reading →

This is a very good presentation of the basics of business cycle analysis, using fundamental economic indicators. Very easy to read, and provides a more thematic and focused viewpoint than the Baumohl and Constable/Wright books described below. A supplementary text … Continue reading →

This is a more comprehensive survey of the major economic indicators that move the financial markets. It is very good, and provides in effect a topical survey of many of the major macro-economic concepts and principles along the way (e.g., … Continue reading →

This highly readable book combines several intriguing narratives – it is simultaneously an insider’s history of the Wall Street Journal and how it has operated over the years; a dramatic struggle by Rupert Murdoch to acquire the paper from a heterogeneous … Continue reading →

This is a breezy but useful survey of a diverse selection of economic indicators, focused mainly on the business cycle (predicting recessions & recoveries), and on inflation. It is not a deep treatment of these issues, but a practical discussion … Continue reading →

I was once sitting in the audience at a financial conference in California, and half way through a rather dull powerpoint presentation, a man in the row in front of me turned his head slowly to the left, presenting a … Continue reading →