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Books

  • Die Kunst, über Geld nachzudenken. André Kostolany. 
  • House of Wirecard. Dan McCrum 
  • The smartest guys in the room: The amazing rise and scandalous fall of Enron.Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.
  • Reminiscences of a stock operator. Edwin Lefevre.
  • Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism.  Jeff Gramm. 
  • Billion dollar whale: The man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world. Bradley Hope and Tom Wright.
  • Arcandors Absturz: Wie man einen Milliardenkonzern ruiniert: Madeleine Schickedanz, Thomas Middelhoff, Sal. Oppenheim und KarstadtQuelle. Hagen Seidel. 
  • The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal. Duncan Mavin.
  • The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All. Mary Childs. 
  • When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management. How One Small Bank Created A Trillion-Dollar Hole. Roger Lowenstein. 
  • Das Recht und sein Preis - Der Fall Foris. Lothar Müller-Güldemeister.
  • Red Notice. Bill Browder.
  • Freezing Order. Bill Browder.
  • The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment. Guy Spier.
  • Phishing for Phools. George Akerlof und Robert Shiller.
  • Barbarians at the Gate. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.
  • The Shipping Man. Matthew McCleery.
  • Monsieur Orient-Express: Wie es Georges Nagelmackers gelang, Welten zu verbinden. Gerhard Rekel.
  • Die Inflation von 1923: Wie es zur größten deutschen Geldkatastrophe kam. Frank Stocker.
  • Die Akte Schneider. Marc Frey. 
  • Bad Company: Meine denkwürdige Karriere bei der Wirecard AG. Jörn Leogrande.
  • Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street. Fred Schwed Jr.
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.  Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 
  • Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall. Zeke Faux.
  • Als Steuerfahnderin auf der Spur des Geldes. Birgit E. Orths.
  • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger and the Financial Scandal of the Century. Frank Partnoy.
  • Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever. Robin Wigglesworth.
  • Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World. Dan Davies.
  • Das ist die Börse: Kostolanys Erstes Buch von 1961. André Kostolany.
  • Kostolanys Notizbuch. André Kostolany.
  • Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports. Howard Schilit.

Currently reading

  • New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West. David E. Sanger.

Yet to read

  • Wert(e)verfall. Fleming Lindholm und Hartwig Fuchs.
  • Dreckiges Geld. Andreas Frank und Markus Zydra. 
  • Big Bets Gone Bad: Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Orange County. Philippe Jorion.
  • Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie. Gary Weiss.
  • The Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry. Rush Loving.
  • What’s the Matter with Delaware? Hal Weitzman.
  • Merger Masters: Tales of Arbitrage. Kate Welling and Mario Gabelli.
  • The Key Man. Simon Clark and Will Louch.
  • The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History. David Enrich.
  • Predators’ Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond. Connie Bruck.
  • The Greatest Trade Ever. Gregory Zuckerman.
  • You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits. Joel Greenblatt.
  • The Caesars Palace Coup: How A Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street. Sujeet Indap and Max Frumes