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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Currencies and foreign exchange

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FX is the largest and least booked market; the good writing is monetary history and macro trading rather than technique.

Books 10Experts 3Recommenders 7

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  1. Exorbitant PrivilegeBarry Eichengreen, 2011
  2. Globalizing CapitalBarry Eichengreen, 1996
  3. The Battle of Bretton WoodsBenn Steil, 2013
  4. The Alchemy of FinanceGeorge Soros, 1987
The Alchemy of FinanceThe Alchemy of Finance
T1 The Alchemy of Finance
George Soros · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Reflexivity, where beliefs move prices and prices move facts, tested in a live diary.

“The Alchemy joins Reminiscences of a Stock Operator as a timeless instructional guide to the marketplace.” — Paul Tudor Jones

Source: Tudor Jones pairing it with Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Recommended by: Guy Spier, Paul Tudor Jones, Peter Cundill and 3 others

Manias, Panics and CrashesManias, Panics and Crashes
T1 Manias, Panics and Crashes
Charles P. Kindleberger · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Financial crises follow a repeated sequence of boom, mania, panic and crash.

Recommended by: Howard Marks, Li Lu

Globalizing CapitalGlobalizing Capital
T2 Globalizing Capital
Barry Eichengreen · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Money between nations from the gold standard to floating rates and the euro.

Exorbitant PrivilegeExorbitant Privilege
T2 Exorbitant Privilege
Barry Eichengreen · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the dollar became the world's currency, what it gives the US, what may follow.

The AlchemistsThe Alchemists
T2 The Alchemists
Neil Irwin · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 2007 to 2012 crises through three central bankers: Bernanke, King and Trichet.

The Battle of Bretton WoodsThe Battle of Bretton Woods
T2 The Battle of Bretton Woods
Benn Steil · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1944 Bretton Woods conference as a contest between Keynes and Harry Dexter White.

Soros on SorosSoros on Soros
T3 Soros on Soros
George Soros · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Interviews covering the 1992 sterling trade in his own words.

Making Sense of the DollarMaking Sense of the Dollar
T3 Making Sense of the Dollar
Marc Chandler · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Working FX strategist on what actually moves the dollar.

Currency WarsCurrency Wars
T3 Currency Wars
James Rickards · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Popular account of competitive devaluation as policy.

Trading in the Global Currency MarketsTrading in the Global Currency Markets
T4 Trading in the Global Currency Markets
Cornelius Luca · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Mechanics of spot, forward and options FX trading.

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