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  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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Bonds and fixed income

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Fixed income has a genuine canon: a few technical books that every desk owns, plus the narrative history of how the market was built.

Books 12Experts 4Recommenders 7

Start here

  1. Liar's PokerMichael Lewis, 1989
  2. The Bond KingMary Childs, 2022
  3. Inside the Yield BookSidney Homer, Martin L. Leibowitz, 1972
  4. A History of Interest RatesSidney Homer, Richard Sylla, 1963
A History of Interest RatesA History of Interest Rates
T1 A History of Interest Rates
Sidney Homer, Richard Sylla · 1963
Open LibraryGoodreads

Interest rates from Babylonian lending through Rome and Europe to modern bonds.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Inside the Yield BookInside the Yield Book
T1 Inside the Yield Book
Sidney Homer, Martin L. Leibowitz · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads

Bond maths made usable: price and yield, interest on interest, and bond swaps.

The Handbook of Fixed Income SecuritiesThe Handbook of Fixed Income Securities
T1 The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities
Frank J. Fabozzi · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

The standard reference on every kind of bond, its analysis and its management.

Liar's PokerLiar's Poker
T1 Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Life on Salomon Brothers' bond trading floor in the 1980s mortgage-bond boom.

“I do believe, as Michael Lewis writes in his intriguing 1989 book, "Liar's Poker," that it is unlikely that an individual unable to buck convention in one's life will suddenly be able to buck…” — Michael Burry

Source: MSN Money Strategy Lab journal, March 2, 2001 — archived

Recommended by: Michael Burry, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 3 others

Bond Markets, Analysis, and StrategiesBond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies
T2 Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies
Frank J. Fabozzi · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

The standard text on bonds: instruments, valuation, risk and portfolio strategy.

The Bond King
T2 The Bond King
Mary Childs · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Bill Gross and how he built PIMCO into the largest bond manager, until 2014.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

The Bond BookThe Bond Book
T3 The Bond Book
Annette Thau · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

Retail-investor guide with the clearest chapters on buying munis.

The Strategic Bond InvestorThe Strategic Bond Investor
T3 The Strategic Bond Investor
Anthony Crescenzi · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to position across the yield curve using the economy's direction.

Fixed Income AnalysisFixed Income Analysis
T3 Fixed Income Analysis
Frank J. Fabozzi, Barbara S. Petitt, Jerald E. Pinto, Wendy L. Pirie · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

The CFA Institute's fixed-income text: bond valuation, risk and analysis.

The Term Structure of Interest Rates: ExpectThe Term Structure of Interest Rates: Expectations and Behavior Patterns
T4 The Term Structure of Interest Rates: Expectations and Behavior Patterns
Burton Gordon Malkiel · 1966
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Rating Agencies and Their Credit RatingsThe Rating Agencies and Their Credit Ratings: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Are Relevant
T4 The Rating Agencies and Their Credit Ratings: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Are Relevant
Herwig Langohr · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Interest Rate MarketsInterest Rate Markets
T4 Interest Rate Markets
Siddhartha Jha · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Practical guide to trading rates, swaps and futures.

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