Library

There is tremendous value to be gained in education and learning lessons from the past. Below we provide a list of some of the books, videos and podcasts that have been influential to us, or provided us with great entertainment over the years.

Historical / Macro

Keeping at It, Paul Volcker

The Man who Knew, Sebastian Mallaby

Firefighting, Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson Jr

Reagan, Ronald Reagan

Suezo’s Substack, David Hum

The Courage to Act, Ben Bernanke

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Paul Kennedy

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap? Graham Allison

Oil Leaders, Ibrahim AlMuhanna

The Prize, Daniel Yergin

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Keynes

Promises to Keep, Joe Biden

Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed

World Order, Henry Kissinger

The Limits of Partnership, Angela Stent

A Promised Land, Barack Obama

A Monetary History of the United States, Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz

The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon

The Penguin History of the World, Roberts and Westad

Dealing with China, Henry Paulson

The Hundred Year Marathon, Michael Pillsbury

More Money than God, Sebastian Mallaby

Conservative Investors Sleep Well, Phil Fisher

Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks, Phil Fisher

Sapiens, Yuval Harari

Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller

Peddling Protectionism, Douglas Irwin

Duty, Robert Gates

The Age of Deficits, Iwan Morgan

The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant

Corporate growth and success

Shoe Dog, Phil Knight

Power Play, Tim Higgins

The Everything Store, Brad Stone

Inside the Publishing Revolution, Pamela Pfiffner

Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

Great by Choice, Jim Collins

Good to Great, Jim Collins

Turning the Flywheel, Jim Collins

How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins

The Leadership Secrets of Nick Saban, John Tatly

Chaos Monkeys, Antonio Martinez

Scale, Geoffrey West

Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, Duncan Clark

Competitive Advantage, Michael Porter

Philosophy & Psychology

Principles, Ray Dalio

The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

Discourses and Selected Writings, Epictetus

Transformed by Trauma, Tedeschi and Moore

Humble, Daryl Tongeren

Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frenkl

If, Rudyard Kipling

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande

Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey

Mindset, Carol Dweck

Daring Greatly, Brene Brown

The Monk who Sold his Ferrari, Robin Sharma

The Road less Travelled, M. Scott Peck

Letters from a Stoic, Lucius Seneca

The Analects, Confucius

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

The Upside of Uncertainty, Nathan and Susannah Furr

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell

Alone on the Wall, Alex Honnold

Start with Why, Simon Sinek

Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee

Open, Andre Agassi

Pressure is a Privilege, Billy Jean King 

Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins

Ben Crowe Bounce Back Interview, Dr Andrew Rochford

The Science of Meditation, Goleman and Davidson

The Courage to be Disliked, Fumitake Kishimi

The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper

The Open Society and its Enemies, Karl Popper

other books on Investing

The Dhando Investor, Mohnish Prabai

Security Analysis, Graham and Dodd

The Outsiders, William N. Thorndike Jr

Mastering the Market Cycle, Howard Marks

Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Charlie Munger

The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway, Adam Mead

Charlie Munger, Trent Griffin

The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville Essay, Warren Buffett

Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader, Peter Brandt on Technical Analysis

The World Almanac and Book of Facts published each year, World Almanac Books

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay

The Crowd, Gustave Le Bon

Essays on Inflation and the US Dollar, Warren Buffett

The Almanac of Michael Burry, Rui Zhi Dong

How to Invest: Masters of their Craft, David Rubenstein

The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Snowball, Alice Schroeder

Diary of a Hedgehog, Barton Biggs

Beat the Dealer, Ed Thorp

Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke

The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks

Anatomy of the Bear, Russell Napier

The Big Short, Michael Lewis

Panic, Michael Lewis

Boomerang, Michael Lewis

How to Trade in Stocks, Jesse Livermore

The Little Book that Beats the Stock Market, Joel Greenblatt

Big Mistakes, Michael Batnick

This Time is Different, Reinhart and Rogoff

The Market Wizards Series, Jack Schwagger

Superforecasting, Gardner and Tetlock

Corporate Valuation, McKinsey and Company

Miscellaneous

A Shot to Save the World, Gregory Zuckerman

The Happiest Man Alive, Eddie Jaku

Red Notice, Bill Browder

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates

Chip War, Chris Miller

This is How they Tell me the World Ends, Nicole Perlroth 

Janesville, Amy Goldstein

Any Ordinary Day, Leigh Sales

Mythos, Stephen Fry

Heroes, Stephen Fry

The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley

The Originals, Adam Grant

The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson

Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell

The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg

Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson

Gut, Giulia Enders

The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan

The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan

The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson

Homo Deus, Yuval Harari

Stocks for the Long Run, Jeremy Siegel

Cashless: China’s Digital Currency Revolution, Richard Turrin

Winning on Wall Street, Marty Zweig

One up on Wall Street, Peter Lynch

What it Takes, Stephen Schwartzman

The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King

The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf

Against the Gods, Peter Bernstein

Podcasts / Videos

How the Economic Machine Works, Ray Dalio

Becoming Warren Buffett, HBO

Acquired, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

All In with Chamath, Jason, Sachs & Friedberg, Jason Calcanis

The Prince, Sue-Lin Wong (The Economist)

How I built This, Guy Raz

American Scandal, Wondery

How Leaders Lead, David Novak 

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Books we're looking forward to

Bull, Maggie Mahar

The Great Inflation and its Aftermath, Robert Samuelson

A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, Alan Binder

The Bubble Economy: Japan’s Extraordinary Speculative Boom, Christopher Wood

Margin of Safety, Seth Klarman

Tribe of Mentors, Timothy Ferris

George Soros A Life in Full, Peter Osnos

Who am I?, Steven Reiss

The Go-Go Years, John Brooks and Michael Lewis

For the Record, Donald Regan 

21st Century Monetary Policy, Ben Bernanke 

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