Famous Financial Fiascos
Brief, entertaining stories of manias, frauds and blow-ups, and the human weaknesses behind them.
John Train’s short, witty history of financial disasters, from speculative manias and swindles to spectacular corporate failures. Each chapter tells the story of one fiasco and draws out the human weaknesses, greed, vanity and credulity, that made it possible. It is illustrated with drawings by Pierre Le-Tan.
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Morgan Housel
Famous Financial Fiascos is one of the best investing history books that few people have heard of.
Article · May 2017
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