What’s the best way to understand what’s happening in China? Andrew Foster, who has been researching and investing in Asia since 1996 has two recommendations.
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MOST IMPORTANT INVESTING BOOK
David Giroux, an avid reader who leads the T. Rowe Price book club, says there is one book that every investor should read.
HYMAN: SWEEP OF HISTORY
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.
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.
