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A decade of delusions : from speculative contagion to the great recession /
"The proven strategies rational investors require for success in an irrational market When the dot-com and real estate bubbles of the 1990's and 2000's burst, few were spared the financial fallout. So, how did an investment advisory firm located in Elkhart, Indiana--one of the cities...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
J. Wiley & Sons,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Decade of Delusions: From Speculative Contagion to the Great Recession; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1: Lead Us Not into Temptation; May Reason Prevail; Patience and Persistence; The Dean of Wall Street Revisited; The Investor's Dilemma; It's a Numbers Game; The Supremacy of Earnings; ""Stealth Compensation""; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Techno Babble, Techno Bubble; A Tale of Two Markets; Back to the Future?; Warren Buffett on the Stock Market; Is the Internet the Answer?; What's a Long-Term Investor to Do?; Investment Redefined; Chapter 3: ""Pop!!"".com; Risk: No Longer an Afterthought
- Investment Strategy: Is It Time for Technology?Is There a Snowball Rolling Our Way, Gathering Mass and Speed?; The Art/Science of Managing Risk; Baby Boomers: Whither Goest Thou?; The Internet and IPO Frenzy; Fool's Gold; Goliaths Slain; Chapter 4: Swimming against the Current; Prelude to Our Investment ""Strategy""; Interest Rates: It Had Better Be Uphill from Here; The Power of Popular Delusions; The Mind of Crowds; Investment Consultants: The Great Middleman Myth; Chapter 5: The ""Greenspan Put"" . . . Again; Investment Strategy; The Reckoning; Sober in the Morning; Micro versus Macro
- The Margin-of-Safety Paradox Waiting Patiently for Those Hanging Curves; Chapter 6: Only Fools Rush In; The Rogues Gallery, 2003 Vintage; Making Progress in the Post-Bubble Environment; How Did We Get Here in the First Place?; The Apogee of the Mutual-Fund Boom; The Great Abdication of Fiduciary Responsibility: The Defined-Contribution Plan; Where the Buck Really Stops; Chapter 7: Expanding Concern: A Bigger Bubble?; Maybe the Markets Are Not Random?; A Short History of Financial Euphoria; Fully Deluded Earnings: Penance (?) in the Cuff-Links Cooler
- Run for the Roses: Of Pawns, Guinea Pigs . . . and ""Retail Investors""""Swing, You Bum!""; Marathon Endurance; Chapter 8: What History Teaches; Free Markets: Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds; Aspiring to Rationality by Overcoming Heuristic Biases; Today Is Not Tomorrow: Cycles and Differing ""Opportunity Sets""; Inverting the Traditional High-Risk/High-Return Paradigm; The Inevitability of Regression to the Mean; There Are No Called Strikes in the Investment Ballgame; Focus on the Important; The Malevolent Mathematical Mystery of Modern Money Management (a.k.a. MPT)
- The Absurdity of the Collective Wisdom of Individual Irrationality Diversification and the Myth of Safety in Numbers; The New-Era Error; Chapter 9: Contagious Speculation; The Means to the End; The Perfect Storm? Viewing the Vista through the Lens of History; The Blossoming of the Financial Economy: The Cataclysm in the Creation of Credit; Bubbles Are Indigenous to the Financial Economy; If Housing Prices Roll Over; A Remarkable Story of Risk Management
- Run Amok; The Perfect Storm Redux; Capitalism: When ""Financial"" Overwhelms ""Commercial""; Minsky: A Prequel?