The Edge of Chaos: Financial Booms, Bubbles, Crashes and Chaos - Hardcover

Cohen, Bernice

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9780471972372: The Edge of Chaos: Financial Booms, Bubbles, Crashes and Chaos

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ISBN 10: 0471972371 ISBN 13: 9780471972372

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

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Spanning two centuries and across three continents (Europe, America and Asia), the author provides a fascinating history on some famous and not so famous financial events. Beginning with the 1720s Mississippi and South Sea Companies to the great global crashes of 1929 and 1987, Bernice Cohen provides us with a strategy for tracking market trends and cycles, and protecting our investments against the next financial crash.

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The Edge of Chaos Financial Booms, Bubbles, Crashes and Chaos Bernice Cohen "Mrs Cohen visits the scenes of the notorious crashes in the financial markets. Her investigation can help us learn to become safer investors and traders." Dr Alexander Elder, author of Trading for a Living Written by a well–known financial commentator and columnist, this is a fascinating and anecdotal guide to the history of financial crashes. Chaos, the madness of crowds, the history of risk, financial cycles and crash indicators are all drawn together in a controversial, entertaining and educational work to offer profound insights into how the markets work. The concept of chaos can be difficult to grasp, but by illuminating her work with actual historical examples, from the 1720s Mississippi and South Sea Companies to the great global crashes of 1929 and 1987, Bernice Cohen provides us with a strategy for tracking market trends and cycles, and protecting our investments against the next financial crash.

About the Author:

Bernice Cohen became a serious investor as recently as April 1990, and since then has quadrupled her initial capital. The author is a regular columnist for the Financial Mail on Sunday, and the presenter of a Channel 4 series on personal finance and money. She has also been featured by John Authers for the Financial Times Quarterly Review of Personal Finance where she discussed her research on chaos in the markets.

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