Henry Kissinger, one of the most influential secretaries of state in U.S. history was also a prolific author. Voracious reader Ed Hyman recommends reading one of Kissinger’s most recent books for the new year.
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PRODIGIOUS OUTPUT
Forty years of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, nine books, countless editorials, articles, and speeches. How does Jim Grant do it?
GRANT: DINNER CONVERSATION
Some 40 years ago, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer was created over dinner at the baronial Oak Room at New York’s Plaza Hotel.
BERKOWITZ: HANDLING FINANCIAL SETBACKS
Award-winning value investor Bruce Berkowitz opens up about how he has handled major financial setbacks, including failed attempts to take mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of government conservatorship and turn struggling retailer Sears into a leading real estate developer.
STANEK: MEETING THE CHALLENGE
Award-winning bond manager Mary Ellen Stanek describes Baird’s strategy to guide clients and colleagues through 2022’s bond market debacle.
VOTAVA: BETTER HEALTH WITH AI
Katy Votava was not allowed to publish her Ph.D. dissertation in the 1990s because it used a then-novel AI neural network analysis to predict healthcare costs. She was forced to take another approach, but ever since then, she has been fascinated with AI’s potential.
