Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
Or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

A very easy and pleasurable reading, highly recommended to everyone BEFORE starting investing their money ;) as for a former insider of the financial industry, the book proved to be really entertaining for me, with a good portion of irony and satire. I find it especially amusing that almost nothing......more

Schwed covers some important ground in what may be one of the most important books ever written about Wall Street; the craziness of financial predictions, the desperate nature of stock brokers (today known as "financial advisors), the psychotic tendencies of the investing public, and capitalism - th......more

If you want to read one book on investing / stock markets, take this. Although written 75 years ago, applies very well today. One of the few books on subject that is actually funny and entertaining yet still conveys valuable lessons.......more

Every now and then, it happens that some poor financially illiterate soul gets suckered into the world of speculation. Tempted by the wealth and the yachts of the bankers and the brokers, he sets out on his own quest for riches. One man seeing the same thing as this man (it's usually a man) famously......more

It's an insightful and witty read as promised. The probe into the wall street operations forces you to rethink "passion" for the financial markets. On the pessimistic note, the win-loss situation turns to be coin flips. No speculators will beat the market forever. Market is naturally unpredictable a......more