The Pleasure Was All Mine by Fred Schwed Jr.| Novel Investor
Fred Schwed Jr's memoir is filled with wit and wisdom about the nicer parts of his life and the people and events that influenced him.| Novel Investor
Quote for the Week Who picked a quarter past eleven, October 24, 1929, to tell that quotation clerk, and me, and all the world, that it now looked as though the whole thing had been a disastrous mistake? There is an old saying to the effect that you can get used to anything if you […]| Novel Investor
The Great Crash was not a single day but a sequence of events that started months in advance, as is shown in this timeline of the 1929 Crash.| Novel Investor
Quote for the Week One of the studies that I did for my first book, Pioneering Portfolio Management, looked at the behavior of endowments and foundations around the crash in October 1987. I used to talk about the crash in October 1987 without explaining what it was and I do still teach a seminar in the […]| Novel Investor
The 2025 fall edition of books I've read in the last three months on the Medici Bank, early financial panics in the U.S., and more.| Novel Investor
The hard part of investing, why we do stupid things money, the market hates hubris, the benefits of base rates, and more weekend reads.| Novel Investor
Chasing the crowd, the rarity of bubbles, an investing lesson from golf, the benefit of boredom, and more weekend reads.| Novel Investor
A site dedicated to the journey of learning and sharing timeless investing wisdom.| Novel Investor
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered a chain of events that led to WWI and the longest market closure in NYSE history.| Novel Investor