Financial Hacking
A financial engineering textbook on evaluating risk, pricing derivatives, and structuring trades.
Financial Hacking
2012, World Scientific Publishing.
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These books are compilations of select essays and articles originally published primarily in the Fairfield County Weekly and on LewRockwell.com.
Yankee Wake Up (2008)
- What does Noah's flood have to do with the War in Iraq?
- Is Harry Potter a Libertarian?
- Why are we still fighting the War of 1812?
- Is drug prohibition the modern equivalent of the Puritanical outlawing of Christmas?
- How is the income tax like ghosts and goblins?
- Is Dora the Explorer a Communist? ...and more about guns, transfats, the environment, education, speed limits, time zones, religion, and justice.
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Free Your Inner Yankee (2010)
- Did Neanderthals die out because of universal health care?
- What does the last carrier pigeon have to do with the Fed?
- If central banking is such a good idea, why don't we have a sperm central bank? ...and more about how ancient China, Hanukkah, Russian children's songs, and horror movies relate to money, banking, gas, health care, and free trade. This book also includes hundreds of reader comments on the essays.
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Yankee Go Home (2011)
- What can sex tell us about politics?
- How is government like a cult?
- If we redistribute wealth, shouldn't we also redistribute blood?
- What is behind the mosquerade of the Lower Manhattan Islamic Center debate? ...and more about how creationism, Einstein, math, and Glenn Beck relate to liberty or its absence, Iraq, jobs, bailouts, and risk regulation.
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NBA Mysticism: Prophecies Fulfilled and Fortunes Told
A collection of some of the longer, more analytical articles is now available in print.
Prophecies Proved Prescient for the NBA
- That the Boston Celtics would draft Al Jefferson at #15 in the 2004 draft (predicted a month ahead of time)
- That the Boston Celtics would win the championship in 2008 (predicted four years early)
- Who would be a star and who would be a bust today (predicted after the 2004 draft)
Telling the NBA's Fortune
- How to eliminate the clock-stopping, foul-shooting boredom at the end of close games
- How the NBA can increase its revenue and make its fans happier at the same time
- How to make basketball timeless and monetize the league's growing archival footage
- Why reintroducing barnstorming teams would contribute to the league's global growth
- How to make the first three quarters of a game even more exciting
Maybe it is a way to experience the present from the perspective of the past. Or maybe it is the first step in viewing basketball as a religious experience. Available on Amazon.com.