Investment-history

Davidson and Rees-Moog team up to tell us that when things seem the worse may be the time to take advantage of opportunity. The Chinese symbol for crisis also means opportunity.

This book shows that throughout history, some of the greatest became that way because they had the forethought, and sadly, sometimes the foreknowledge, of events that they took advantage of them and won in a big way.

The title of the book comes from Lord Rothshild's statement about when blood is running in the streets, invest in a future. Of course, what to invest in is really the question. This book will give you a look to see and evaluate the opportunities that are out there.

Although the book was written in 1987, it is a now book, filled with facts of how to take advantage of a market. Hey, did Warren Buffett read this? Or did he understand the concept of "Blood in the Streets."

A seminal work bringing together in one volume the most up to date scholarship on the emergence of the City of London as the premier financial centre during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The breadth of scholarship as exemplified in the various sections notably by van Helten, Cassis as well as Kennedy is particularly impressive. The critical and controversial debates about the volumes of British investment overseas, the role of investment trusts, British investment in mineral extractive industies especially in gold mining in South Africa around the turn of the century are examined in detail.

This book examines how China's legal system really functions. It focuses on explaining the difference between what appears on the face of the law in China and how it really operates in practice. He demonstrates how the discrepency is not just due to a clash in Western inspired legal concepts and Chinese culture, but by a concerted attempt by various actors to contrive a legal system which maximises discretionary power of administrative authorities to make and interpret law.

Topics covered include the creation and application of law, consistency, interpretation, and supervision over enforcement and lawmaking.

The book is well regarded in academic circles, and is on the reading lists of most Western law schools that offer Chinese law within their curriculum.

I loved reading this account of the money game in old New York played by the masters Fisk and Gould. The story was gripping and the themes amazingly relevant to today.

As an Internet investor and financial professional, I found this book very interesting on a lot of levels. Especially interesting is the way CFOs value other companies and decide how to allocate budgets for projects. Definitely worth reading....

I want to read all the book.

This book is very easy reading, with a lot of pictures and charts, and doesn't bore you with pages upon pages on text. It traces the history of the DJIA, showing what was happening in the world when the Dow hit certain benchmarks, and provides a "Readers Digest" version of market trends, biographical profiles, and cycles in the Dow. A great coffee table book.

I typically am not interested in this kind of literature. However, after reading about the author's death, I decided to try this book. I found it extremely intersting and it increased my knowledge about the subject. I recommend this book for anybody who is intested in the history of some of our most popular companies.

A. David Silver has written many business books -- and most present his formulaic approach to evaluating (or starting) companies that have a proprietary advantage in the market place.

If you are going to start a company, or if you are going to invest in a company... you must get one of his books on this subject. This book provides a summary of that formula, and then applies that to stocks in existance at the time of its publication.

You couldn't ask for a better way to learn his method. About 1 year after I had read the book and talked about it to a friend, we went back and saw that his selections had done quite well.

Whether this is a great stock selection method remains to be objectively tested. But I believe his method of analyzing a company based on proprietary hold on a market... to be sound.

In general: buy anything by this author. I do.

John Dunbar

This work reviews the efforts of seven Americans and their motivations for developing the rail systems and mines of Mexico. Although published in 1958, it is still one of the best works on this subject. The seven Americans covered are General William Rosecrans, Edward Plumb, Albert K. Owen, U.S. Grant, Alexander Shepherd, William Greene, and Arthur Stilwell. They came from different backgrounds and achieved different levels of success in Mexico. Some went bankrupt. In the end, the Mexican Revolution removed the chance to make large returns on capital investments. There are footnotes, but no bibliography. This is worth the time for anybody interested in the history of Mexico or of railroads.