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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

2010 Reads (mostly Crisis stuff)

1. Financial Shock by Mark Zandi in 2009(found very useful for understanding the origins of the housing crisis)

2. When Markets Collide by M El Erian in 2009

3. The Course of my Life by C D Deshmukh (RBI's first Indian Governor)

4. Do they Walk on Water by Leo Santow (Really incisive critique of the last 4 including Bernanke, Fed Governors and Fed moves)

5. Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (I wish I had written something like this)

6. Madame Bovaury by Gustave Flaubert (this is just to keep my sanity intact)

Well what is the idea behind listing all the names here. First, to brag about my reading habit.
Two, really to document what I have read as (this is the dawn of middle age) often I find something that I might have read sometime but am not sure; and
Three, I have started taking audio notes of stuff I read by dictating to my cellphone. I intend to put the notes here sometime. I attempted this sometime back with a Soros book but I dont think I updated the notes when I finished the book. So hoping to revisit the idea here.