Any suggestions on books to read to start diving a little deeper into understanding the market? Im not looking for textbooks and boring reads like the CFA curriculum. I want to find something a little bit easier to relate to and enjoy. A couple I have been looking at which seem to have good reviews:
What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Rothbard
Undercover Economist- Harford
Worldly Philospohers - Heilbroner
Naked Economics- Wheelan
Meltdown: A free-market look at why the stock market collapsed… - Woods Jr.
Anything by Heilbroner is going to be long and hard reading. Remember too, that he’s an avowed Socialist, while all the others seem to fall between MIlton Friedman and Von Mises on the “freedom scale”.
Personally, I think the best book about the market is “Random Walk Down Wall Street”. You can learn a lot from it, even if you don’t believe everything the author says. Plus, it’s pretty entertaining.
^ There was definately a lot to lean from “A Random Walk”.
However, I found the author to be somehwat arrogant and there were a lot of weak arguments made, especially in the first half of the book. Still a good read and glad I read it.
I bought “Random Walk Down Wall Street” when you recommended it last year but am yet to read it. I kind of don’t want to read stock market books for now, I found out that many of them are either telling what I already know or what I’m currently reading in the CFA curriculum. I currently read about bussiness management.