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"The wisdom of the markets" prevails, even in the most turbulent of eras: the British stock market bottomed out just before the Battle of Britain; the U.S. market turned at the epic Battle of Midway; and the German market peaked at the high-water mark of Germany's attack on Russia. Those events turned out to be the three great turning points of World War II - although at the time, no one and no instrument except the stock markets recognized them.
Biggs skillfully discusses the performance of equities in both victorious and defeated countries, reveals how individuals preserved their wealth despite the ongoing battles, and explores whether or not public equities were able to increase in value and serve as a wealth preserver.
Biggs also looks at how other assets, including real estate and gold, fared during this dynamic and devastating period, and offers valuable insights on preserving one's wealth for future generations.
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- 05-30-18
Entertaining and somewhat useful
It turned out to be about 20% asset allocation through times of strife and 80% world war 2 vingets, but did both jobs well. useful in terms of asset allocation and interesting in terms of war stories.
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- Jane Ng
- 12-15-09
History or economics
Tales about the war are riveting and make this audiobook an enjoyable experience. However, the refences to the stock market are tenuous and contrived. Better if he had stuck to what he is really interested in - history.
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- morton
- 07-30-08
A Must For Every Serious Investor
This brilliant, knowledeable man of finance offers important lessons for us today. I really enjoyed the historical quips along with Winston Churchill's impressive wit. It was interesting to hear about the personal side of the warring leaders from both sides.
It was fascinating to learn the lessons of the Japanese real estate market post war as well as the information regarding the stock markets during that time.
Biggs offers advice on portfolio and currency diversification. He also analyzes what worked and didn't work for survivors of World War II.
This is an audio book every serious investor should hear. It is an absorbing and thought-provoking primer on wealth creation.
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- Thais Leal @thaisvmleal
- 01-30-19
Great History Lesson, Average Market Insights
Read this book if you want to know details of some of the most important battles of WW2 and how it impacted the wealth of families in different parts of the globe (from the US, France, Germany to Japan and Korea). Do not expect brilliant investments insights. This is more of a history book than investments’.
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- 05-14-24
Not good not bad
Biggs’ work managed to cover a wide range, but he miscarried Japan after the WW2 in a number of ways, and also completely misunderstands Talebs black swans, going so far as to talk about the number of standard deviations out these events are.
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- 08-22-24
Deep analysis, very impressive
Deep comprehensive analysis of the world events and human kind behavior in light of these events. Very impressive.
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- Nelson Alexander
- 08-01-10
An Interesting Mishmash
This is not the book I had hoped for, but isn't nearly as bad as it ought to be, given its digressions and doubtful thesis. I was hoping for a book tracking some of the financial history behind WWII. What Biggs proposes is a "wisdom of crowds" thesis demonstrating that equities markets recognized pivotal moments in the war ahead of popular sentiment or expert opinion. I find this this concept of the wise or rational market patently absurd, a notion born of ontological fallacies and Chicago School propaganda. Rather than market prediction of events, it is selective retrodiction, more or less the technique used by palm readers to simulate clairvoyance. What we get then, is a quirky, compact history of WWII punctuated by a glance at stock market movements, a few of which are made out to be prescient. At times, Biggs does not even seem convinced by his own case, stating it in rhetorical form. "Could it be that the market sensed Rommel's dilemma...?" Etc. Yet for all that, I found Biggs' idiosyncratic history of the war to be interesting, as when we learn that Hitler compared his "lebensraum" expansion in Eastern Europe to the displacement and slaughter of the Indians in the United States. Or the fact that Nazi spies kept track of Churchill's trash to see how much he was drinking. (Answer: a lot.) There are many vivid portraits and wartime episodes. Biggs also tracks the value of various stores of wealth during war, from bonds to paintings, sounding like a catastrophe survival guide for plutocrats. I would have liked much more about the financing and macroeconomics of the war. In any case, while Biggs fails to demonstrate that stock markets are "wise" in times of war, he does confirm that they are often confused, sometimes hysterical, and consistently amoral. No brilliant theme or deep analysis here, but some interesting ideas, biographical sketches, and well-told war stories.
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- 03-24-10
ok, but 20-20 Hindsight
Primarily a history of WWII, with extra emphasis on what happened to financial markets and wealth. The end has his suggestions for keeping wealth through major crisis times (buy farmland). But his comments about how stock markets magically predicted everything are silly, 20-20 hindsight: 'notwithstanding the news coming from the front lines, the stock market somehow sensed that...'
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- Anon
- 07-18-16
Sometimes lacking in focus but always interesting
This book is at its best when describing how to protect wealth in troubled times. However when reading this book I can't help but think the author really wanted to write an amateur history of WWII. He also swings into market prediction theory, sometimes incongruously. Protecting wealth is almost an afterthought of this book. Also, the 'voice' of the story varies from section to section. I wish the author spent a little more time refining the book before publication. He probably needed a stronger editor to give him some pointed feedback.
But, to my knowledge, this is the only book of its kind and the author clearly has a passion for the subjects he covers and expertise to back it up. I also enjoyed the backdrop of WWII and quick historical overview.
Don't expect a brilliant exposition but it does a reasonably good job of communicating ideas and does so in a "practical" way. I'll probably listen a second time so I can enjoy the WWII story on its own terms.
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- Clifford
- 01-09-09
Intriguing History Lesson
It is touted as a finance book, however it offers more interesting history insights. The primary financial take-away is to diversify investments (investment types and international locations) and, despite big downturns during the 1900s, the stock market over time was one of the best investment vehicles. The narrator was one of the best I have heard and I found the historical insights from WWII and the Korean War unique and intriguing. This was a very enjoyable listen.
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