The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

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	The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means George Soros PublicAffairs, 2008 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 60 reviews view larger image
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Buy it.

This book will take you a long way in understanding what just happened in the financial markets and with the housing bust.

Whether or not you want to buy Soro's theory of 'reflexivity' as 'the new paradigm' is up to you, but he does make the simple and accurate point that any economic theory that had human beings objectively describing the world and then making decisions based on that 'accurate' intelligence is a silly theory.

Market fundamentals? Those are actually our perception of market fundamentals, so if we delude ourselves about those fundamentals(housing prices will never come down, the dow is going to 30,000) then we mis-take the markets. And people can be delusional as all hell if you haven't noticed. It just keeps on happening...

Soros describes bubbling phenomena with his 'far-from-equilibrium' theory. He gives an 8-stage descriptive theory of bubbles (pg. 65-66) that is, in and of itself, enough reason to buy this book. Look at gold in the 1970s...it followed the exact pattern.

This text advanced my understanding of how markets work and why it is that human idiocy is such an important variable. George wants to explain how this idiocy can actually drive a market, and I appreciate the attempt.

Soros also lets his political opinions be known, but so what. You don't have to agree with him.

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Awesome outline

A good summary of Who's Soros and what's his take for the market--past and future. Most helpful is his insight on the big picture, which could lead to good investment ideas even if he doesn't provide any specific tip.

Practical insights and new rules from George Soros

Legendary financier George Soros is worried. The financial markets face the worst credit crisis since the Depression and their existing paradigm needs to be replaced. The new paradigm Soros recommends is based on what he calls the "theory of reflexivity." This book-length essay provides a crash course in the billionaire investor's philosophy and view of financial markets, the origins and consequences of the current credit crunch, the boom-bust model and the behavior of market participants. Soros intersperses his market analysis with enough personal details from his early life and career to keep the book lively. He is also quite vocal in his political beliefs; Democrats will probably appreciate the case he makes against President George W. Bush's administration and its policies. One weakness of the book, other than its repetitiveness as Soros explains his theory, is that he relies heavily on technical and financial jargon, which makes it tough to penetrate and may prove a barrier to some readers. Ironically, he seems to be fully aware of this shortcoming when he writes that readers may find one of his particularly theoretical chapters to be "somewhat repetitive and hard-going." Nevertheless, his warm personal voice and the depth of his financial experience, which spans more than half a decade, is hard to match. Thus, getAbstract notes that this book has much to offer executives, investors, and students of financial markets and theory. (As is true of every Abstract, the following views are those of the author and not of getAbstract.)

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No Holy Grail

Having read all of the Soros books I would say this is less convoluted and less disappointing than most. If you are looking for concrete investment ideas prepare to be let down. Interesting discussion of markets and the current crisis in particular-as the title suggests Soros is bearish and not without good reason. Only time will tell if he got it right this time.

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