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  The Failure of Risk Management -...

  Douglas W. Hubbard

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  The Failure of Risk Management provides effective solutions to significant faults in current risk analysis methods. Conventional approaches to managing risk lack accurate quantitative analysis methods, yielding strategies that can actually make things worse. Many widely used methods have no systems to measure performance, resulting in inaccurate selection and ineffective application of risk management strategies. These fundamental flaws propagate unrealistic perceptions of risk in business, government, and the general public. 
  This audio book provides expert examination of essential areas of risk management, including risk assessment and evaluation methods, risk mitigation strategies, common errors in quantitative models, and more. Guidance on topics such as probability modelling and empirical inputs emphasizes the efficacy of appropriate risk methodology in practical applications. 
  Recognized as a leader in the field of risk management, author Douglas W. Hubbard combines science-based analysis with real-world examples to present a detailed investigation of risk management practices. This revised and updated second edition includes expanded coverage of innovative statistical methods and new cases of current risk management issues such as data breaches and natural disasters.

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  Warren Buffett and the...

  Mary Buffett, David Clarke

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  Mary Buffett and David Clark clearly outline Warren Buffett's strategies in a way that will appeal to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike. Inspired by the seminal work of Buffett's mentor, Benjamin Graham (The Interpretation of Financial Statements, 1937), this book presents Buffett's interpretation of financial statements with anecdotes and quotes from the master investor himself.Potential investors will discover:-Buffett's time-tested dos and don'ts for interpreting an income statement and balance sheet-Why high research and development costs can kill a great business-How much debt Buffett thinks a company can carry before it becomes too dangerous to touch-The financial ratios and calculations that Buffett uses to identify the company with a durable competitive advantage-which he believes makes for the winning long-term investment-How Buffett uses financial statements to value a company-What kinds of companies Warren stays away from no matter how cheap their selling priceOnce audiences complete and master Buffett's simple financial calculations and methods for interpreting a company's financial statement, they will be well on their way to identifying which companies are going to be tomorrow's winners-and which will be the losers that should be avoided at all costs.Destined to become a classic in the world of investment books, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements is the perfect companion volume to The New Buffettology and The Tao of Warren Buffett.

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  Energy Micro-grids in India

  PBS NewsHour

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  India suffers from chronic power interruptions and failures stemming from energy policies created to court voter blocs and never accounted for the cost of power. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on efforts by social entrepreneurs to solve part of India’s power problems by creating village-based micro grids.

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  The Book of Lost Books - An...

  Stuart Kelly

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  A “clever and highly entertaining” look at books through history that were stolen, went missing, or just never got written (The New York Times).   In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s great prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature’s what-ifs and never-weres.   In compulsively readable fashion, this book reveals details about tantalizing vanished works by the famous, acclaimed, and influential, from the time of cave drawings to the late twentieth century. Here are true stories behind stories, poems, and plays that now exist only in imagination:   ·Aristophanes’ Heracles, the Stage Manager was one of the playwright’s several spoofs that disappeared. ·Love’s Labours Won may have been a sequel to Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost—or was it just an alternative title for The Taming of the Shrew? ·Jane Austen’s incomplete novel Sanditon was a critique of hypochondriacs and cures started when the author was fatally ill. ·Nikolai Gogol burned the second half of Dead Souls after a religious conversion convinced him that literature was paganism. ·Some of the thousand pages of William Burroughs’s original Naked Lunch were stolen and sold on the street by Algerian street boys. ·Sylvia Plath’s widower, Ted Hughes, claimed that the 130 pages of her second novel, perhaps based on their marriage, were lost after her death.   Whether destroyed (Socrates’ versions of Aesop’s Fables), misplaced (Malcolm Lowry’s Ultramarine, pinched from his publisher’s car), interrupted by the author’s death (Robert Louis Stevenson’s Weir of Hermiston), or simply never begun (Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, America, a second volume of his memoirs), these missing links create a history of literature for a parallel world. Civilized, satirical, erudite yet accessible, The Book of Lost Books is a real find.

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  Summary of Michael Lewis's The...

  Falcon Press

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  In December of 1991, Steve Eisman was working for Oppenheimer and Co. as an analyst and became known for his knack for ignoring consensus, an analysis of a stock’s future sales and earnings. 
  In the early 1990s, the Salomon Brothers trading floor began a whole new bond market by packaging mortgages into bonds. In this way, they began to tap the unused equity many people had in their homes, driving the interest rates of mortgages so low that even those with less than perfect credit could get low rates. This led to a surge in subprime mortgages, mortgages offered to those with poor credit ratings. Subprime mortgages were then packaged into bonds and sold to investors. 
  Eisman hired accountant Vincent Daniel to help him decipher the suspicious accounting used by subprime mortgage originators. Daniel discovered companies were booking profits for expected future values of loans, and prematurely displaying themselves as profitable. However, they were failing to reveal the delinquency rate of the home loans they were making, claiming that they were selling these loans to be packaged as bonds, so their risk was limited. An example of this was Long Beach Savings, one of the first banks to implement what was called the originate and sell method, a method of originating a loan that was likely to be defaulted on and sell it to another lender, but leave it on the books to appear as profit...

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  Decoding the New Consumer Mind -...

  Kit Yarrow

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  A decade of swift and stunning change has profoundly affected  the psychology of how, when, and why we shop and buy. In  Decoding the New Consumer Mind, award-winning  consumer psychologist Kit Yarrow shares surprising insights about  the new motivations and behaviors of shoppers, taking marketers  where they need to be today: into the deeply psychological and  often unconscious relationships that people have with products,  retailers, marketing communications, and brands.   Drawing on hundreds of consumer interviews and shop-alongs,  Yarrow reveals the trends that define our transformed behavior. For  example, when we shop we show greater emotionality, hunting for  more intense experiences and seeking relief and distraction online.  A profound sense of isolation and individualism shapes the way we  express ourselves and connect with brands and retailers.  Neurological research even suggests that our brains are rewired,  altering what we crave, how we think, and where our attention  goes.  Decoding the New Consumer Mind provides marketers with  practical ways to tap into this new consumer psychology, and Yarrow  shows how to combine technology and innovation to enhance brand  image; win love and loyalty through authenticity and integrity; put  the consumers needs and preferences front and center; and  deliver the most emotionally intense, yet uncomplicated, experience  possible. Armed with Yarrows strategies, marketers will be  able to connect more effectively with consumersdriving  profit and success across the organization.

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