Suggested Links

[Under con­tin­u­ous con­struc­tion]

The pur­pose of this page is to sim­ply guide you to sev­eral use­ful links and other related gems that I found on the web such as inter­est­ing web­sites, video doc­u­men­taries, free e-books, use­ful finan­cial tools, etc.  Just like a free mar­ket! Sim­i­lar to the “Books” sec­tion, I clas­si­fied my find­ings in four sections:

 

Eco­nom­ics

  • Great visual resource on behav­ioral eco­nom­ics (or finance) regard­ing cog­ni­tive biases. A must for any­one study­ing the human being
  • “Com­mand­ing Heights” PBS doc­u­men­tary on the evo­lu­tion of eco­nomic think­ing since the 1900’s. Its 6 hour doc­u­men­tary (3 parts). Really well done and easy to lis­ten (if you go by part!). I’ve learned a lot from this doc­u­men­tary. I did my stud­ies mostly in finance and a lit­tle in eco­nom­ics so its thanks to this doc­u­men­tary that I learned about F.A. von Hayek and Aus­trian economics
  • Huge eco­nomic con­fer­ence with George Soros, Nouriel Roubini (Dr. Doom), Paul Krug­man, Niall Fer­gu­son, etc. six months after the col­lapse of Lehman Broth­ers. (There are nine parts to the con­fer­ence video)
  • Visit the Mises Insti­tute web­site to have access to all the great lib­er­tar­ian eco­nomic books! Books from Mises, Hayek, Roth­bard, etc
  • Pre­sen­ta­tion by Peter Klein at the ”In Defense of Cap­i­tal­ism” con­fer­ence. Peter Klein teaches eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­sity of Mis­souri and at the Mises Insti­tute. His new book ”The Cap­i­tal­ist and Entre­pre­neur” just came out and its avail­able in PDF for free here
  • Good arti­cle by Clive Thomp­son on Game The­o­ries and Fan­tasy Games (online games!)
  • Eco­nomic and finance his­to­rian Niall Fer­gu­son speech: Empires on the Edge of Chaos
  • Pre­sen­ta­tion by Robert Shiller: How Ani­mal Spir­its Drive the Economy
  • Pre­sen­ta­tion by John Bogle: Free Market’s Moral Cri­sis — Bogle is a hero of mine!
  • Doc­u­men­tary by the BBC on War­ren Buf­fett “The World’s Great­est Money Maker”
  • F.A. Hayeks’ paper on “Why I am Not a Conservative”
  • A Ronald Coase lec­ture at the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago Law School
  • Nas­sim Taleb on “Liv­ing with black swan” video @ Whar­ton University
  • Eli­nor Ostrom’s views on research (fascinating!)

Finance

  • An arti­cle writ­ten by Michael Lewis (in the Van­ity Fair) called “The Man Who Crashed the World” — the guy who led AIG to rum­ble. Excel­lent arti­cle by an excel­lent writer.
  • Another arti­cle writ­ten by Michael Lewis for the Man­hat­tan, inc. on “How a Tokyo earth­quake could dev­as­tate Wall Street and the World Economy”.
  • Con­ver­sa­tion between David Cameron before he became UK’s Prime Min­is­ter with Nas­sim Taleb. It’s good to hear a polit­i­cal leader tak­ing Taleb’s advice seri­ously. Also, David Cameron asks great ques­tions to Taleb.
  • Pre­sen­ta­tion by Bur­ton Malkiel at Google Talk on invest­ment time­less lessons.
  • Front­line doc­u­men­tary enti­tled “The Warn­ing” on how the finan­cial cri­sis of 2008–2009 could have been prevented
  • Another Front­line doc­u­men­tary called “Inside the Melt­down”: How the US responded to the col­lapse of Bear Sterns and Lehman
  • Yes…another Front­line doc­u­men­tary called “The Untouch­ables”.  It inves­ti­gates why Wall Street’s lead­ers have escaped pros­e­cu­tion for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages.
  • PBS 1997 doc­u­men­tary on the stock mar­ket frenzy of the 90s — warn­ing: many dumb investors… How­ever super amaz­ing documentary.
  • Visis the Yale Inter­na­tional Cen­ter for Finance for data on stock prices in the UK and US prior to the First World War. Plus, there is great visual museum of actual stocks and bonds (really well done)
  • Another inter­est­ing finan­cial cri­sis of 2008 doc­u­men­tary called Melt­down
  • The Ascent of Money doc­u­men­tary by Niall Fer­gu­son via PBS.  Doc­u­men­tary on the his­tory of finance.
  • The best free finance (and eco­nomic) weekly newslet­ter out there is by John Mauldin, enti­tle ”Thoughts from the Front­line”. I highly sug­gest you to sign-up to his newslet­ter. I have learned a lot from Mauldin
  • Nas­sim Taleb: The Need to Build a Robust Society
  • Yale Lec­ture by David Swensen, Chief Invest­ment Offi­cer for Yale Uni­ver­sity Endowment
  • Lazy port­fo­lios pro­posed by Peter Far­rell — Great resource for retail investors
  • “White­board” finan­cial pre­sen­ta­tions by Paddy Hirsch — by far the best and sim­plest finan­cial pre­sen­ta­tions ever!
  • Pris­on­ers of Debt: This fea­ture doc­u­men­tary reveals how Bank of Mon­treal chair­man William Mul­hol­land dealt with his debt-laden cus­tomers Dome Petro­leum and Mex­ico dur­ing the global debt cri­sis of ’82. Inter­views with bankers and finan­cial experts demys­tify the causes of debt cri­sis, con­firm the fragility of the inter­na­tional bank­ing sys­tem and out­line the prob­lems to be solved if the sys­tem is to survive
  • Free book by Bur­ton Malkiel and Charles Ellis ”The Ele­ments of Invest­ing” avail­able here! (legal)
  • Great pre­sen­ta­tion by Simon John­son, author of 13 Bankers and blog­ger at Base­line Sce­nario, at MIT
  • Arti­cle by Mal­com Glad­well on Nas­sim Taleb (writ­ten in 2002) titled “Blow­ing Up” — Excel­lent article
  • “The Super­in­vestors of Graham-and-Doddsville” by War­ren Buf­fett — a great piece on writ­ten for the 50th anniver­sary of Secu­rity Analy­sis by Gra­ham and Doddsville
  • Michael Lewis on Long-Term Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment (NYT arti­cle, 1999)
  • Hugh Hendry (of Eclec­tica Asset Man­age­ment and Steven Drobny, Drobny Global Advi­sors) inter­view at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics (2011).
  • PBS Front­line Money, Power and Wall Street doc­u­men­tary (2012) — Four parts.
  • Money and Speed: Inside The Black Box (2012) — doc­u­men­tary on the Flash Crash and High-Frequency Trading

Phi­los­o­phy

  • A pre­sen­ta­tion by math­e­mati­cian Benoit Man­del­brot about his life work on frac­tal geom­e­try. I decided to post this is phi­los­o­phy sec­tion sim­ply because frac­tal geom­e­try is (for me) a new way at look­ing at the world. [Only works with Inter­net Explorer — argh! damn you Microsoft!] + visit the Yale Uni­ver­sity page on frac­tals.  Every­thing you need to know on frac­tals is there
  • The Lost Art of Demo­c­ra­tic Debate: Michael Sandel at TED2010. Excel­lent TED pre­sen­ta­tion by the Har­vard pro­fes­sor on the the­ory of jus­tice. Michael Sandel also has some of his classes online!
  • Click here for hand-written copies of let­ters exchanged by George Soros and Karl Pop­per (my favorite philoso­pher) on Soros’ appre­ci­a­tion of Popper’s work on “Open Soci­ety and its Ene­mies” when he was stu­dent (1952), Soros’ cri­tique request let­ter to Pop­per on a paper that he wrote on Reflex­iv­ity the­ory, let­ter of Soros to tell Pop­per that he named is foun­da­tion the “Open Soci­ety” and Popper’s reply. I got all these copies from micro-films at the Lon­don School of Economics
  • May not be phi­los­o­phy per se but we can def­i­nitely clas­sify this great doc­u­men­tary by the BBC called The Secret Life of Chaos in the field of phi­los­o­phy. Great doc on the evo­lu­tion of chaos theory
  • (This is more his­tory than phi­los­o­phy, but still…) great doc­u­men­tary by Niall Fer­gu­son “War of the World” — there are six episodes

Busi­ness

  • Need inspi­ra­tion for your next visual pre­sen­ta­tion? Visit slideshare for where peo­ple uploads their pre­sen­ta­tion on var­i­ous top­ics (ppt, keynote, etc.)
  • The Marsh­mal­low Chal­lenge is a task where teams need to come up with the tallest struc­ture (made of spaghetti) with a marsh­mal­low on top. A chal­lenge where busi­ness peo­ple tend to do very poorly. Find out why!
  • My favorite TED pre­sen­ta­tions: Benoit Man­del­brot, Sir Ken Robin­son (talk 1 and talk 2), Rives, J.J. Abrams, David Cameron, Alain de Bot­ton, Dan Gilbert, Seth Godin, Her­bie Han­cock, Dan Ariely, Ben­jamin Zan­der, etc…
  • Tips for cre­ative suc­cess by Pixar’s Randy Nel­son. Nel­son is the Dean of Pixar Uni­ver­sity and gives a talk on impor­tant con­tent for all pro­fes­sion­als and stu­dents. The talk is called Learn­ing and Work­ing in the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Age. I per­son­ally fol­low Nelson’s guide­lines given in his pre­sen­ta­tion in my daily life
  • Superb pre­sen­ta­tion by Seth Godin: an entre­pre­neur and blog­ger who thinks about the mar­ket­ing of ideas in the dig­i­tal age
  • Pre­sen­ta­tion by Steven John­son. Peo­ple often credit their ideas to indi­vid­ual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven shows how his­tory tells a dif­fer­ent story. His fas­ci­nat­ing tour takes us from the “liq­uid net­works” of London’s cof­fee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web
  • Dr. Tae’s video on why school sucks or why school does not know how to teach! It may not be busi­ness per se but edu­ca­tion! And there’s a lot edu­ca­tion going on in our busi­nesses but done in a ter­ri­ble way…you know..“Death by Pow­er­point” and that kind of crap!
  • Applic­a­ble to many fields, how to self-control our­selves of what I call “lazi­ness” biases — pre­sen­ta­tion by Dan Ariely
  • Pre­sen­ta­tion: Under­stand­ing social media with David Armano — “Social media is not social; we make media social”
  • Plan­ning­less 2011 — “How to design a busi­ness” by IDEO…excellent slideshow!
  • Garr Reynolds of Pre­sen­ta­tion Zen pre­sen­ta­tion in Paris (Nov.2011): 30min. Well done.

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