Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Roger Lowenstein

T1JournalistsCrises and crashes

Reported for The Wall Street Journal for over a decade, writing its Heard on the Street column from 1989 to 1991; a director of Sequoia Fund.

Sequoia FundThe Wall Street Journal

Intrinsic Value

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist and When Genius Failed are the standard reference accounts of Buffett's rise and of the LTCM collapse.

7 books of their own · 4 articles

Books 7Writing 4Profiles 1

Start here

  1. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist1995
  2. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management2000
  3. Origins of the Crash2004
Buffett: The Making of an American CapitalisBuffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
T1 Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Roger Lowenstein · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Buffett's life from Omaha and Graham's class to building Berkshire Hathaway.

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Christopher Bloomstran and 12 others

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of LonWhen Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
T1 When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Roger Lowenstein · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

How a hedge fund's bond bets on borrowed money lost $4.6 billion in four months.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai and 7 others

Origins of the CrashOrigins of the Crash
T4 Origins of the Crash
Roger Lowenstein · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

While America AgedWhile America Aged
T4 While America Aged
Roger Lowenstein · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The End of Wall StreetThe End of Wall Street
T4 The End of Wall Street
Roger Lowenstein · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Seth Klarman

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
T4 America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
Roger Lowenstein · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the Federal Reserve was argued into existence, from the 1907 panic to 1913.

Recommended by: Seth Klarman

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
T4 Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
Roger Lowenstein · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads
Buffett: The Making of an American CapitalistBuffett's life from Omaha and Graham's class to building Berkshire Hathaway.1995T1Andrew Wilkinson, Christopher Bloomstran, Guy Spier and 11 others
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital ManagementHow a hedge fund's bond bets on borrowed money lost $4.6 billion in four months.2000T1Mohnish Pabrai, Rational Capital Investment Fund, Max Levchin and 5 others
Origins of the Crash–2004T4Mohnish Pabrai
While America Aged–2008T4Mohnish Pabrai
The End of Wall Street–2010T4Mohnish Pabrai, Seth Klarman
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal ReserveHow the Federal Reserve was argued into existence, from the 1907 panic to 1913.2015T4Seth Klarman
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War–2022T4–

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