“We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.”
- Robert Frost.
“Never let a serious crisis go to waste.” These words are credited to former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November 2008, when the banking and financial emergency (not entirely yet put to the sword) was at its most virulent. No shortage of books has tumbled out of publishing houses subsequently, exquisitely detailing the whys and wherefores of the crisis, so it was with a somewhat heavy heart that your correspondent received news of the latest book offering investment counsel, David X Martin’s ‘Risk and the Smart Investor: using the principles of de-risking to make better investment and financial decisions’ (McGraw Hill, 2010; visit the website here). Happily, the scepticism was unwarranted: the book is an excellent read, and refreshingly free of the risk analysis jargon that its title threatens – and which in large measure helped the crisis to vault to its giddy heights in the first place.
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Daniel Wright
Posted by: Daniel Wright | October 25, 2010 at 02:16 PM