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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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Commodities generally

Assets

The commodity literature is mostly about the traders and trading houses, because the physical merchants, not the exchanges, are where the returns come from.

Books 13Experts 2Recommenders 1

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  1. The World for SaleJavier Blas, Jack Farchy, 2021
  2. The King of OilDaniel Ammann, 2009
  3. Merchants of GrainDan Morgan, 1979
Options, Futures, and Other DerivativesOptions, Futures, and Other Derivatives
T1 Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
John C. Hull · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

How futures, options and swaps work and how to price and hedge them.

The World for SaleThe World for Sale
T1 The World for Sale
Javier Blas, Jack Farchy · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Glencore, Vitol, Trafigura and Cargill; the definitive book on the trading houses.

Merchants of GrainMerchants of Grain
T2 Merchants of Grain
Dan Morgan · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

The family-owned firms, from Cargill to Bunge, that controlled the world grain trade.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Hot CommoditiesHot Commodities
T2 Hot Commodities
Jim Rogers · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why years of low prices and Chinese demand set up a long commodity bull market.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The King of OilThe King of Oil
T2 The King of Oil
Daniel Ammann · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Marc Rich, the founder of modern commodity trading.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Material WorldMaterial World
T2 Material World
Ed Conway · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Six materials the world runs on, sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium, traced.

The Secret Club That Runs the WorldThe Secret Club That Runs the World
T3 The Secret Club That Runs the World
Kate Kelly · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Commodity desks at banks and funds after the 2008 boom.

A Complete Guide to the Futures MarketsA Complete Guide to the Futures Markets
T4 A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets
Jack D. Schwager · 1984
Open LibraryGoodreads

Second edition 2017 with Mark Etzkorn, titled A Complete Guide to the Futures Market.

Schwager on Futures: Fundamental AnalysisSchwager on Futures: Fundamental Analysis
T4 Schwager on Futures: Fundamental Analysis
Jack D. Schwager · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads
Schwager on Futures: Managed Trading StrategSchwager on Futures: Managed Trading Strategies
T4 Schwager on Futures: Managed Trading Strategies
Jack D. Schwager · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads
Trading Commodities and Financial FuturesTrading Commodities and Financial Futures
T4 Trading Commodities and Financial Futures
George Kleinman · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Practitioner primer on futures mechanics and hedging.

The Little Book of Commodity InvestingThe Little Book of Commodity Investing
T4 The Little Book of Commodity Investing
John R. Stephenson, John F. Mauldin · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

A guide to commodity investing and to spotting its opportunities.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Intelligent Commodity Indexing: A Practical
T4 Intelligent Commodity Indexing: A Practical Guide to Investing in Commodities
Robert Greer, Nic Johnson, Mihir Worah · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

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