Best of 2007 Book Awards

The Best of 2007 Book Awards were just announced. Here is commentary on the winners, some honorable mentions and recent trends in finance publishing.

Taleb KS 02 Feb 2008

Benford's Law

Benford's Law is a fun result and a surprisingly simple tool for uncovering accounting or tax fraud. Even simpler tools are being deployed to detect hedge fund abuses.

December Outperformance The Deal Sleuth 06 Jan 2008
Interesting data Horseless 07 Jan 2008

Played On The Street - Part 2

In a dramatic about-face from last week, the Wall Street Journal now reports on how hedge funds are misrepresenting their assets under management.

Played On The Street

Readers of this blog know that the hedge fund industry is little more than a trillion dollar bait-and-switch scheme. Readers of the Wall Street Journal are not so well informed.

information sources BD 19 Nov 2007

Market Maker's Dilemma

Market volatility has many causes, including our own actions. If we're the cause, can value-at-risk be meaningful?

Dates to CAPM DAX 24 Oct 2007

Hedge Funds: Who'll Take the Toxic Waste?

Long before Mark Twain stood on Wall Street and saw it was a "street with a river at one end and a graveyard at the other," there has been financial manipulation and scams.

Let's be more moderate Krassimir 16 Aug 2007
Re: Let's be more moderate Breathtakingly dishonest 16 Aug 2007
maybe lets be less moderate.... Breathtakingly dishonest 16 Aug 2007
Re: maybe lets be less moderate.... Krassimir 17 Aug 2007
Re: maybe lets be less moderate.... Glyn Holton 17 Aug 2007
Re: maybe lets be less moderate.... Krassimir 20 Aug 2007
Re: maybe lets be less moderate.... Glyn Holton 20 Aug 2007
Re: maybe lets be less moderate.... Krassimir 20 Aug 2007
Re: maybe lets be less moderate.... Glyn Holton 21 Aug 2007
Re: maybe lets be less moderate.... Breathtakingly dishonest 21 Aug 2007
Re: maybe lets be less moderate.... Steve Kenny 17 Aug 2007
Re: Let's be more moderate Gumpwine 08 Oct 2007
Let's be... Mario R. Melchiori 29 Aug 2007
Re: Let's be... Breathtakingly dishonest 29 Aug 2007

More Questions Than Answers

Fictional mysteries can be fun, but here is one that is real. It involves a book, a guy we will call "Junior" and an implausible sequence of events. Like any good mystery, it offers more questions than answers.

Re: More Questions Than Answers 15 Jul 2007
Great Book! Lionel 20 Jul 2007
Article 3 24 Jul 2007
Re: More Questions Than Answers neuromancer 03 Aug 2007
Re: More questions than answers (price update) JO 26 Nov 2007
Re: More questions than answers (price update) Glyn Holton 10 Dec 2007
Publisher for your book Financial Engineer 27 Nov 2007

Peter Bernstein's Evolving Thinking on Risk

Thinking about risk is like pealing back the layers of an onion. Just when you think you understand it, you find another layer.

Peter Bernstein Mark Taranto 14 May 2007
Re: Peter Bernstein DAX 15 May 2007
Re: Peter Bernstein Horseless 15 May 2007
Re: Peter Bernstein Mark Taranto 16 May 2007
Re: Peter Bernstein Frederic Blanc-Brude 24 May 2007
Re: Peter Bernstein Glyn Holton 15 May 2007
Re: Peter Bernstein DAX 16 May 2007
Re: Peter Bernstein Glyn Holton 18 May 2007

Race to the Bottom

A number of recent studies explore scaling back US financial regulations in the name of making US financial markets more competitive on the international stage. This is good work, but can we avoid a race to the bottom?

I'll Be Gone. You'll Be Gone.

IBG YBG is a lurking risk, and financial risk management is powerless to stop it.

IBG YBG WBG Krassimir 22 Jan 2007
Re: IBG YBG WBG Glyn Holton 23 Jan 2007
Re: IBG YBG WBG Krassimir 23 Jan 2007
Re: IBG YBG WBG Mark Taranto 24 Jan 2007
Re: IBG YBG WBG Horseless 24 Jan 2007
Re: IBG YBG WBG Perrow 25 Jan 2007
Your Great Website Dana Cole 09 Apr 2007
RE: IBG YBG WBG hereForTheMarketing 25 Apr 2007
RE: IBG YBG WBG Glyn Holton 04 May 2007
RE: IBG YBG WBG Tjemme 15 Dec 2007

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