Currencies and foreign exchange
FX is the largest and least booked market; the good writing is monetary history and macro trading rather than technique.
10 books · 3 people behind it
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- Exorbitant PrivilegeBarry Eichengreen, 2011
- Globalizing CapitalBarry Eichengreen, 1996
- The Battle of Bretton WoodsBenn Steil, 2013
- The Alchemy of FinanceGeorge Soros, 1987
The people behind it 3
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 1
Academics 2
Books 10
George Soros · 1987 · Reflexivity and the real-time trading diary of the largest currency trader.
Charles P. Kindleberger · 1996 · The standard anatomy of currency and credit crises.
Barry Eichengreen · 1996 · Short history of the international monetary system; the standard survey.
Barry Eichengreen · 2011 · The dollar's reserve status and what would end it.
Neil Irwin · 2013 · Bernanke, Trichet and King through the crisis; central banks as FX actors.
Benn Steil · 2013 · Keynes, White and the design of the postwar currency order.
George Soros · 1995 · Interviews covering the 1992 sterling trade in his own words.
Marc Chandler · 2009 · Working FX strategist on what actually moves the dollar.
James Rickards · 2011 · Popular account of competitive devaluation as policy.
Cornelius Luca · 1995 · Mechanics of spot, forward and options FX trading.