Wiley Investment Classics Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street, Book 32, (Paperback)

from drewfull

A fun book that offers no solutions nor concrete advice, but does it's darndest to illustrate the problems on 1930's Wall Street, most of which are as poignant today as they were then. Schwed is consistently entertaining, self-deprecating and fair minded towards those oft villified wall street ba...

from dougb56586

This book is a humorous review of the Stock Market. It was written about 10 years after the 1929 stock market crash by an author who had been working on Wall Street at the time. His definitions of speculation ("an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot") and investment (...

from dougb56586

This book is a humorous review of the Stock Market. It was written about 10 years after the 1929 stock market crash by an author who had been working on Wall Street at the time. His definitions of speculation ("an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot") and investment (...