Content tagged with "finance"

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Book Review
August 7, 2021
165

“An interesting book, but also not what the title would suggest – the subtitle anyway. This was not an all-encompassing history of money and finance. The book starts with Jewish moneylenders in Venice, and then goes on to discuss the bond market, the stock market, real estate, etc. It’s basically a…”

Digital Dollars and Cents: A Virtual CFO’s Playbook to help Digital Companies Create a Financial Roadmap to Success
Deane’s Library
Book Review
November 9, 2018
104

“A book on accounting principles for professional services organizations. It’s not specific to digital – any professional services organization goes through these same problems. It’s okay. I was looking more for something to do with sales, and these’s not much in here about that, except they strongly…”

The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
Deane’s Library
Book Review
February 7, 2021
231

“This is likely the definitive account of The Panama Papers – the massive data leak from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. It also covers some other sensational data leaks, like SwissLeaks and Offshore Leaks. It’s good, no doubt. But it’s confusing, and there’s no real way around that. There…”

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis – and Themselves
Deane’s Library
Book Review
August 22, 2022
376

“This is the story of one week in 2008 – the week when Lehman Brothers was about to fail, and then almost everything went with it. It was the week that ended with TARP – the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package. And to be clear: this is 600 pages about that one week. It’s a nauseatingly detailed…”