Reading the Markets

People aspire to be innovators--to discover, invent, or create something. That something can be as mundane as the hula hoop or as intricate ...

The days of Richard Dennis and his “turtles” with their alleged 100% per year profit are long gone, but their mystique lives on. And with it...

John Kay, a British economist and columnist for the Financial Times, has written a first-rate book about the path the finance industry foll...

Harry G. Frankfurt, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, is probably best known for his book On Bullshit. In his new b...

We all crave knowledge of the future. Is it going to rain this weekend? Where will the equity markets be in a year? Next week? Five minutes ...

“All modern inventions have an ancient history.” Thus begins Gavin Weightman’s Eureka: How Inventions Happen (Yale University Press, 2015)....

If you want to make it in our increasingly computerized world, you’d better learn to play well with others. This is the grossly simplified t...