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Arguably a history book not an investment book. Could not inform you something new but such an elegantly coherent view of the globe. It pains me to say it because he is practically as smug as Taleb (and much better searching) but any of Niall Ferguson’s books are worth reading. Except perhaps the one about the Rothschild’s. Unless you have a compulsive fascination with the history of nineteenth century banking its at least 500 pages too lengthy.

Much more deeply, percentage charges pervade skilled solutions, and have done so generally forever. Actual estate agents charge percentage fees, and do much better when residence prices are larger – this is Greenwood and Scharfstein’s second key supply of the increasing (till 2007) size of finance. Architects charge percentage charges. Contingency fee lawyers take a …