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“Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become." (Abraham Verghese New York Times Book Review)“This is a book so honest, so insightful and so achingly beautiful that its poetic essence transcends even the anguished story that it tells. Katy Butler’s perceptive intellect has probed deeply, and seen into the many troubling aspects of our nation’s inability to deal with the reality of dying in the 21st century: emotional, spiritual, medical, financial, social, historical and even political. And yet, though such valuable insights are presented with a journalist’s clear eye, they are so skillfully woven into the narrative of her beloved parents’ deaths that every sentence seems to come from the very wellspring of the human spirit that is in her." (Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, author of How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter)“This is some of the most important material I have read in years, and so beautifully written. It is riveting, and even with parents long gone, I found it very hard to put down. ... I am deeply grateful for its truth, wisdom, and gorgeous stories—some heartbreaking, some life-giving, some both at the same time. Butler is an amazing and generous writer. This book will change you, and, I hope, our society." (Anne Lamott author of Help, Thanks, Wow)"Shimmer[s] with grace, lucid intelligence, and solace." (Lindsey Crittenden Spirituality and Health Magazine)"[An] unflinching look at America's tendency to overtreat [that] makes a strong case for the 'slow medicine' movement, which recognizes that 'dying can be postponed, but aging cannot be cured.'" (Zaineb Mohammed Mother Jones)"[A] deeply felt book...[Butler] is both thoughtful and passionate about the hard questions she raises — questions that most of us will at some point have to consider. Given our rapidly aging population, the timing of this tough and important book could not be better." (Laurie Hertzel Minneapolis Star Tribune)"Butler argues persuasively for a major cultural shift in how we understand death and dying, medicine and healing. At the same time, she lays her heart bare, making this much more than ideological diatribe. Readers…should be sure to pick up this book. It is one we will be talking about for years to come.” (Kelly Blewett BookPage)“ A pitch-perfect call for health care changes in the mechanized deaths many suffer in America.” (Roberta E. Winter New York Journal of Books)"This braid of a book...examines the battle between death and the imperatives of modern medicine. Impeccably reported, Knocking on Heaven's Door grapples with how we need to protect our loved ones and ourselves." (More Magazine)"A forthright memoir on illness and investigation of how to improve end-of-life scenarios. With candidness and reverence, Butler examines one of the most challenging questions a child may face: how to let a parent die with dignity and integrity. Honest and compassionate..." (Kirkus Reviews)

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Katy Butler’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Science Writing, and The Best American Essays. A finalist for a National Magazine Award, she lives in Northern California. She is the author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door and The Art of Dying Well.

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Once in a while a book comes along that makes a significant impression on our way of life. Katy Butler has written such a book, based on and expanded from her original 2010 article (What Broke My Father's Heart) in the New York Times. In "Knocking at Heaven's Door", Ms. Butler exposes the often tragic end-of-life circumstances, caused by society's unrealistic expectations and/or religious beliefs as to the sanctity of life; prolong it at any cost (usually to the patient's & family's)! This is supported, and frequently encouraged, by the medical establishment out of incompetence, greed or fear of litigation. Other reviewers have given a good synopsis of the book from laymen's point of view; I shall add a perspective from someone who has been in the trenches.The inexorable advance in medical skills, nutrition, antibiotics, chemotherapeutics and overall technology has resulted in a significant boost to the overall health of society and its longevity; at the beginning of the 20th century life expectancy, on average, was 45 years compared to 78 years today. But a longer life is not necessarily a quality life. And that is where we fail as a society. We have become very adept at prolonging life no matter what, but what we are often really doing is protracting death. Over twenty percent of deaths in the USA happen in the critical/intensive care units "where 10 days of futile flailing can cost as much as $323,000", or to put it differently about 80% of medical expenses occur in the last 2 years of life in patients with debilitating chronic intractable conditions or incurable diseases. The USA is one of the few 'first world' countries where this extravagant waste continues to happen. Other countries, just as medically advanced as the USA, limit the use of expensive technologies to cases where there is a reasonable expectation of cure, many withold sophisticated procedures from the elderly suffering from chronic ailments, and a few have legislated physician-assisted suicides and euthanasia.In my four decades career in Academic and private practice I have often dealt with end-of-life issues in my work as Director of a large Critical/Intensive Care unit (ICU) in a teaching institution and, later on, as a cancer surgeon. Until the advent and popularity of Hospice care, the only alternative to incurable, terminally ill patients was to die at the hospital or at home; the latter option was sometimes not feasible because of inadequate, unwilling or absent family support. Admission to the ICU was limited by a protocol of strict criteria. Non-salvageable patients were not admitted to ICU and remained on the general wards (for their supportive care). However, in the past two decades there has been a proliferation of ICU at most hospitals, separate units for neonates, children and even teen/adolescents; Adult Cardiac, general medical, burn, dialysis, trauma and surgical units, and "step-down" units. More sophisticated life-support equipment and testing technologies continue to become widely available. Beds have to be filled and criteria for admission to ICU are liberalized. Patients are admitted to hospital and/or ICU only by an order from a physician. Most physicians will heed the patient's and family's wishes as to the end-of-life management. Problems occur when the patient leaves no instructions or there is a discord within the family, when the patient is incapacitated. The physician has to make the decision and discuss the prognosis with the family. The ethical physician will educate the patient and family as to what is best for the patient and many doctors do just that. But unfortunately, some use any and every means to prolong the patient's vegetative existence prompted by ego (can't lose a patient), greed (gets paid for daily visits and procedures), sheer incompetence or fear of litigation (from discontented family). This often occurs even when the patient leaves specific instructions to limit extraordinary measures etc.The reimbursement method in the health care industry is flawed and encourages the provision of excessive, often unnecessary medical care. Physicians and hospitals are payed to do procedures and perform tests. Every new technique or machine creates its own indications for use (market); to "someone with a new hammer everything needs to be pounded."The answer lies in a "challenge-proof" health care will with specific end-of-life management instructions, which cannot be disputed or changed by anyone other than the patient; This should be based on an honest conversation with the primary physician, all care givers and family. Also, at any stage of a terminal condition, if an invasive test or procedure is proposed, it is best always to obtain a second opinion (or a even third) from a specialist in that particular field.The primary physician should act as advocate and gatekeeper for the terminal patient, allowing only tests and/or procedures that would truly enhance the patient's well-being and comfort. He should stand up to consultants, hospital personel and even family members, if their conduct is not beneficial to his patient.Unfortunately, few are willing to do that for fear of antagonizing their fellow physicians, with resulting loss of referrals and income.Ultimately, in this country, we need to have a universally agreed-upon, comprehensive set of criteria to dispense end-of-life medical care; not based on financial benchmarks but on reasonable medical standards and targets. (I hear howls about "Rationing" and "Death Panels").Everyone dies eventually. But, to die in a vegetative state to placate others, while kept alive by machines and artificial (often painful) means, bathed in one's own body fluids and excrement, is an ignominious death.This terrific book should be required reading for all physicians and be included in the curriculum of all medical and nursing schools. It is a "must read" for all families with ailing or aging members.The interested reader would find pertinent information on hospice care and end-of-life, in works by Dennis McCullough, MD about `Slow Medicine', Ira Byock, MD `The Best Care Possible', Sherwin Nuland, MD `How We Die' and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, MD `On Death and Dying'.

Spoiler alert: Medicare is imperfect and so is your physician. Those are just two of the takeaways from Katy Butler's "Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death." Butler whipstitches together a personal story of family, life and loss, with a troubling but informative assessment of current medical practices and American cultural norms that surround end-of-life issues.I first encountered Butler's writing on the subject in a New York Times article in 2010 called "What Broke My Father's Heart." She laid out the multitude of personal and medical issues as her parents entered their 80s - a sudden health crisis of her father's that ultimately laid the groundwork for his years-long decline - stroke, heart disease, dementia, blood clots, brain hemorrhage. She explained how our current system more often than not intentionally draws out the process of dying. Medication, surgical interventions, technology - all of these things led to the shell of the man she knew as her father, simultaneously saving and dooming him. She also lovingly describes the impact his years-long dying had on her mother, who became a round-the-clock caregiver, bather, cook, cleaner and diaper changer.What stood out most to me, what I took away from that article, is explained more fully in "Knocking on Heaven's Door." That for many, many of us, being forced to make a split second decision in a medical emergency will likely lead to a much longer path of disease, decline, and pain. Your mother has a heart attack? "If you don't agree to a breathing tube/feeding tube/CPR/pacemaker RIGHT NOW, she will die, and it will be because you LET her." Few of us are capable of knowing all what should be known to make truly informed decisions about and for our loved ones - we just know we don't want to let her die in front of us, before the rest of the family can be told there's a decision to make, much less have the chance to say goodbye.And so I found myself nodding in recognition and understanding of what being part of this sorority of caregivers means. My family was in a similar spot. My mother had entered a hospital in May of 2008 to begin dialysis treatment for kidney disease, which had been treated to that point with medication. She did not return to her home until May of 2009. An endless list of crises emerged: A slip and fall in the hospital, compound fracture, infection, sepsis, endocarditis, MRSA, multiple temporary dialysis ports, cardiac arrest, three temporary pacemakers, one permanent pacemaker, atrophy, neglect, gangrene, amputation, three hospitals, and three skilled nursing facilities. Through the "wonders" of modern medicine, amazing strength on her part and dogged determination on our part, she finally returned home to her husband of nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, I racked up over $20,000 in airfare and expenses, flying back and forth between Hartford, Connecticut and Ft. Myers, Florida to handle the crises as they came. It was like a long distance game of Whack-a-Mole - you smack one down with a mallet, and another pops up over there. I used up all paid time off, and exhausted FMLA benefits. Ultimately, I put them on a plane to their native Michigan, sold their house in Florida, and joined them several months later, leaving a career and friends behind me on the east coast.The thing about books like this, at least for an average layperson like me, is that I didn't even know they existed. I knew next to nothing about any of my mother's health issues, and even less about Medicare and its rules. Or how to navigate the system. Or how to advocate for a family member. Or the importance of a medical quarterback. I didn't know I needed that kind of information, certainly not in advance of the "iceberg, right ahead!"But the initial article opened my eyes (mostly in horror) at what might further face us in the future. And why I was so glad to learn that the author was expanding on the article and working on a book. Butler's style of storytelling feels natural and warm. Her research into the professional health care field and the personal and societal costs are well-presented, and her conclusions are reasoned and imparted with empathy.I hope those who need this book find it before they tumble into the rabbit hole of end-of-life care. Her article in 2010 allowed our family to talk about the pitfalls that may face us in the future, and how we would want to proceed if x, y or z happened with either parent. Her article came two years before my mother's death, and it brought both comfort and clarity when we had difficult decisions to make. If you're a daughter (or son), or you're a mother (or father), use this as an opportunity to open a conversation with your loved ones. It's just one more way to care for each other.

While I give it 5 stars the words hover "I LOVE IT" aren't exactly my sentiments. "I AM SMARTER NOW" would be more appropriate. I have worked in healthcare (cardiac intensive care) and IT (software) for several years. I think Ms Butler did an good job in research and balanced with her experiences as a daughter. My dad didn't have a pacemaker, but phsyciians quickly suggested another Medtronic stimulator for $90K which we only paid $250 for. I wish I read this book before that. Too often in our "fee for service" we are not leading with therapy, bio-feedback, counseling, activity, etc. In all my years cardiac nursing, I never considered what the long term effects of pacemakers. We fix problems acutely, but what are we setting up for the families long term? Never heard that as part of a cardiologists discussion with informed consent. As a history buff, I enjoyed the history of electro-therapy too. That was a bonus for me.

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Got this book for my son who has severe food allergies, what I didnt know was this book is about a boy with wheat, milk allergies. So there is a part at the end of the book about how the boy is diffrent now but he will soon grow out of the allergies and be just the same as all other kids. We had to skip this page because son will never grow out of his nut allergy just wish I'd know what the book said prior to buying it.

The tips for teachers is nice at the back, but the book makes it seem like you just get sick from your allergies...food allergies are life threatening. One part says you should let a food allergy kid go to the bathroom more, if a child us reacting they potentially need life saving medication. Disappointed with this book as it seems to minimize the severity of food allergies.

This book is one of a series on various medical issues and disabilities. The good features are that there is a quiz at the end, teacher tips and resources. Another good feature is that the book emphasizes similarities between children. I do feel as if it goes into too much detail about the biology of things: histamine, antibodies, etc. I think there are better books on allergies out there.

This book is good for introducing food allergies to a class or friends in elementary school. It's very simple and talks about being accepting of others differences from a food allergic child's perspective.

My daughter is allergic to Dairy, Egg and Tree Nuts. This book was a great book to show her and her Kindergarten class that she may have allergies but is still a normal little child just like everyone else.

My daughter's platform is food allergy awareness, she will be going around to local schools talking with grades Pre-k-2nd grade about food allergies. She said she really liked this book and cannot wait to share it with the students.

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I ordered this book in print AND ebook because of some of the other reviews for it. My son is allergic to gluten and dairy and this boy is allergic to wheat and milk (perfect!)... but I was SO disappointed! I was reading it to him and we got halfway through and the story started to not make sense. The pages weren't even in the CORRECT ORDER! Don't waste your time or money with this one.. there are better amazing allergy books out there.

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"Jacobs' book is a thoughtful review of the incidents it covers, making vivid some matters which have faded a bit in history, and giving context to matters that remain all too vivid." --Christopher Faille, AllAboutAlpha"Jacobs recognizes that the crash-inducing strategies and products of the future will be different from those that caused problems in the past. He remains convinced, however, that they will share the same fundamental characteristics. Forewarned is forearmed."--Brenda Jubin, Reading the Markets"Too Smart for Our Own Good provides one of the most comprehensive, readable, and useful descriptions of portfolio insurance and the Crash of 1987 that has yet been published. It also provides detailed and intensive coverage of many other bubbles and crashes, especially of the housing boom and bust of 2007-08. But its most important and central point is that risk can be either shared or shifted, but not ever entirely eliminated from the financial system. This is a crucial insight that is widely ignored or overlooked by investors, bankers, and 'quants' when a bubble is in its later stages of development." --Harold L. Vogel, author of Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes: Features, Causes, and Effects, Second Edition

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“Bruce Jacobs explains when a crash is likely.  Buy this book today and be forewarned.”―Elroy Dimson, Professor of Finance, Cambridge Business School“Bruce Jacobs takes a close look at financial blowups over four decades and finds a common element: risk management and investment strategies that appear benign but pose dire systemic risks.”―Greg Feldberg, Director of Research, US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission“Too Smart for Our Own Good is a remarkable combination of decades of hands-on wisdom with astute analytical insight on a topic that is vital not only to the world of finance, but also to the world at large.” â€•Geoffrey Garrett, Dean, The Wharton School â€œBruce Jacobs has produced an important and timely book that explains the common themes that underlie these disruptive events and offers the possibility of avoiding them in the future.” â€•Richard Lindsey, former Director of Market Regulation and Chief Economist of the SEC“Bruce Jacobs explains in clear and often gripping ways how leverage, opacity, and complex investment strategies contributed to market meltdowns.”―Frank Partnoy, Author of F.I.A.S.C.O. and Infectious Greed“I heartily recommend this latest book by Bruce Jacobs to better understand and anticipate market crashes.” â€•Robert Ploder, former Senior Investment Manager, IBM Retirement Funds“New Jersey money manager Bruce I. Jacobs writes in the Financial Analysts Journal that when financial products sold as risk reducers become big hits with investors, the institutions offering them become more prone to risk that they themselves cannot diversify away or hedge. This risk then could rear up and bite deeply during periods of extreme economic volatility. ‘The end result can be catastrophic,’ Jacobs warns.”  â€•William P. Barrett, in “Weapons of Mass Panic,” Forbes, March 15, 2004“What a great time for Bruce Jacobs to bring us Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes. We are in the middle of yet another behaviorally driven market cycle and can use his sage advice and keen observations to help us navigate through it. Jacobs argues that investment products have the potential to interact in damaging ways with investor psychology. He also discusses the classic behavioral error of trend-following trading. The lessons learned from the past can be applied to today’s trend-following themes: disruptive innovation, machine learning and crypto-currency. This is a timeless book that arrives just in time.” â€•Brian Bruce, Editor, The Journal of Behavioral Finance“Bruce Jacobs has the knowledge, experience, energy, and enthusiasm to draw keen insights from financial market disruptions such as the 1987 market crash and the 2007-2008 credit crisis. Too Smart for Our Own Good finds the common threads among the investment strategies and products that were supposed to be risk reducing, but instead gave rise to these and other market crises.”―Barry Burr, former Editorial Page Editor, Pensions & Investments â€œToo Smart for Our Own Good covers most of the financial disasters in the last part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. Bruce Jacobs was there and knows what he is talking about. The coverage is thorough and isolates the critical issues. There are several threads that link these disasters together such as liquidity squeezes/freezes, complexity and obscurity of investment instruments, leverage, nifty math, and a lot of hubris. Which leaves the reader asking how could so many talented investors make such huge mistakes? The answer, of course, is complicated, and this book will help you understand what happened and why.” â€•Jon A. Christopherson, Research Fellow Emeritus, Russell Investments â€œBruce Jacobs explains when a crash is likely: It’s when the economy is strong and risks appear to be low. Buy this book today and be forewarned.”―Elroy Dimson, Professor of Finance, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, and Emeritus Professor, London Business School“Bruce Jacobs’s insightful analyses of financial crises will alert readers to how some financial instruments and strategies can mask investment risk and lead to excessive leverage. The end result can be forced selling to meet margin calls and a collapse of liquidity and prices. One remedy suggested by Jacobs is to incorporate investors’ natural aversion to leverage risk into portfolio decision making. Investors and financial institutions would do well to heed the warnings in this book.” â€•Frank J. Fabozzi, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, and Editor, The Journal of Portfolio Management â€œBruce Jacobs takes a close look at financial blowups over four decades and finds a common element: risk management and investment strategies that appear benign at the micro level but pose dire systemic risks at the macro level. This is an important lesson as memories of the global financial crisis start to fade.”―Greg Feldberg, Director of Research, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, United States of America“Too Smart for Our Own Good is a remarkable combination of decades of hands-on wisdom from a great investor with astute analytical insight born of detailed research―on a topic that is vital not only to the world of finance, but also to the world at large.” â€•Geoffrey Garrett, Dean, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania“A central theme of Bruce Jacobs’s new book is the importance of understanding the relationship between the actions of those in the financial marketplace―financial institutions, financial advisers, regulators, and investors―and their consequences. The increasing frequency of market crashes is a clarion call for a thorough investigation of the causes of market fragility. Too Smart for Our Own Good offers a critical analysis that is of paramount importance for all of us.”―Michael Gibbons, Deputy Dean, I. W. Burnham Professor of Investment Banking, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania“Wall Street’s equivalent of the movie Nightmare on Elm Street – Part 10. Portfolio insurance/dynamic hedging, the Freddy Krueger of the 1987 stock market crash, is back again with the recent growth of options and swaps. Jacobs builds the case for how portfolio insurance and dynamic hedging exacerbated the 1987 crash and points out that dynamic hedging has played a similar role in recent periods of market volatility. And he draws unsettling parallels to the market turbulence surrounding the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management: the forced selling of overleveraged arbitrage positions, the ‘illusion’ of market liquidity, and the frontrunning by competing traders.”―Robert Glauber, Executive Director, Brady Commission and former Under Secretary of the Treasury, endorsement for Jacobs’s earlier work, Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes“Bruce Jacobs, a prescient, early critic of portfolio insurance, has turned his attention to the series of financial market disasters since the crash of 1987. He identifies the flaws in a variety of strategies and instruments intended to increase returns and reduce risks that have perversely increased the fragility of the financial system. Jacobs combines an expert practitioner’s understanding of complex financial instruments with insights from analytic and behavioral finance to provide lucid explanations of the logical flaws in these approaches. This is a highly readable account of a series of innovations that proved too clever by half.” â€•Richard J. Herring, Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking, and Director, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania â€œBruce Jacobs demonstrates effectively that trend-following strategies like portfolio insurance are fair-weather techniques that may add to, rather than minimize, troubles when a major crash occurs.”―Charles P. Kindleberger, author of Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, endorsement for Jacobs’s earlier work, Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes“It has been said that history is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. That statement has never been truer than when applied to the history of financial crises. Too often financial innovation, marketed by Wall Street firms as a means to reduce or control risk, actually creates or exacerbates other, unforeseen, risks. Bruce Jacobs has produced an important and timely book that explains the common themes that underlie these disruptive events and offers the possibility of avoiding them in the future. It will be of inestimable, and equal, value to practitioners, regulators, and the academic community.” â€•Richard Lindsey, former Director of Market Regulation and Chief Economist of the Securities and Exchange Commission“Bruce Jacobs, an investment manager who predicted before the 1987 crash that portfolio insurance would trigger chain-reaction selling, recently forecast that option-strategies (‘the sons of portfolio insurance’) would play a similar, though more muted, role in a future debacle. Monday [October 27, 1997] provided damning evidence.” â€•Roger Lowenstein, in The Wall Street Journal, November 6, 1997“This is the book investors should read today to be prepared for the next crash, which is certain to come.” â€•Edward M. Miller, former Professor of Economics and Finance, University of New Orleans“In Too Smart for Our Own Good, Bruce Jacobs brings his extensive experience and expertise as a financial analyst and commentator to bear on the increasingly important, and frequent, problem of financial crises. He weaves together stories of various crises since the 1980s and explains in clear and often gripping ways how leverage, opacity, and complex investment strategies contributed to market meltdowns. He also shines a light on the often-neglected conflicts of interest among market professionals and in academia. Anyone who wants markets to be safer and more stable should harken to Jacobs’s words of wisdom.”―Frank Partnoy, Author of F.I.A.S.C.O. and Infectious Greed, and Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley“Black Swan events seem to be occurring all too frequently in markets.  Have we forgotten that market returns are not normally distributed but instead reflect the fat tails we read about but never quite take into consideration? I heartily recommend carefully reading this latest book by Bruce Jacobs. Doing so will make you better able to understand and anticipate market crashes. Every one of Jacobs’s publications has offered the reader excellent documentation and reasoning as to what happened, why it happened, and the likelihood of it happening again.”―Robert F. Ploder, former Senior Investment Manager, IBM Retirement Funds“Bruce Jacobs makes a strong case for admitting that financial crises are created by activities within financial markets, not by external factors, nor by a confluence of bad luck. His main message can be paraphrased using the words from a well-known 1970 Earth Day poster, namely, ‘we have met the enemy and he is us.’ Jacobs does a splendid job of connecting the dots of the causes of crises and suggests how we can think about the daunting task of ‘taming the tempest.’”―Hersh Shefrin, Mario L. Belotti Professor of Finance, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University“Every fiduciary should read this book. Investors have too often been taken in by promotions appealing to their basic human instincts of fear and greed. Bruce Jacobs shows how supposedly low-risk, seemingly infallible investment strategies can backfire. His views on portfolio insurance helped steer our profit-sharing fund away from that craze in 1987. Today, especially in light of the Long-Term Capital Management fiasco, investors should know what Jacobs has to say about derivatives trading strategies and market crashes.” â€•John E. Stettler, Vice President-Benefit Investments, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, endorsement for Jacobs’s earlier work, Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes“In this very thoughtful and comprehensive book, Bruce Jacobs takes the reader on a tour of the financial markets and the market crises we have lived through. One key piece of advice is to be wary of so-called experts, no matter how smart they are. I highly recommend this well researched and written book.”―William T. Ziemba, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia

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Product details

Hardcover: 464 pages

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (December 5, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1260440540

ISBN-13: 978-1260440546

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6.2 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Excellent book for those who want to learn about the underlying root causes and unifying factors for three major bubbles that lead to severe financial collapses during the last thirty years. The premise of the book is that financial crises are not unforeseeable, inexplicable, or inherent characteristics of capital markets. The investors’ hope and fear are, of course, factors that help create bubbles. But beyond that, the crises in 1987 (black Monday), 1998 (demise of Long-Term Capital Management), and 2007-2008 (mortgage credit crisis) were fed by: unwitting reliance on obscure mathematical models with unadvertised limitations; absence of transparency by financial institutions offering questionable products; false illusions of investor safety which allowed risky leveraging (investment with borrowed money); and also, in some cases, conflicts of interest. Readers of this book may range from people interested in financial markets (e.g. casual Wall Street Journal readers), to individual investors, portfolio and estate managers, even to investment firm managers who did not fully understand the mechanics of mortgage securitizations, the unfolding of which lead to a great recession in 2008-2009. For those with lesser finance background, the author affords extensive tutorial sections and a comprehensive glossary with definitions for all the technical terms used. For those better versed in finance, the author explains the emergence of questionable financial products, and their path to collapse. Some readers may find some parts challenging, but still will not be disappointed in understanding how these financial collapses were germinated, and may be able to recognize similar future reoccurrences.

A decade after the Great Financial Crisis, professional and lay people alike are still debating the causes and likelihood of a recurrence. If you only read one book on how panics arise, make it this one! The author, Bruce Jacobs, is a seasoned practitioner having founded a highly successful asset management firm. He also has a strong academic background with a doctorate in finance from the Wharton School. This is a well written, thoroughly researched, insightful work that will educate readers on how understanding the pitfalls of past financial crises can help avoid ones in the future.

A fascinating look at the market crashes that many of us remember too well. As behavioral finance theory points out, investors often do things that are at odds with their own rational self-interests. The author adds a new - and very important - human quirk to the list I thought I knew. When investors think they've hedged their portfolio, they also think they're bulletproof and take on more risk than they would have otherwise. I especially liked the author's memo to his employer in the 1980s warning them about jumping on the index options/futures bandwagon, and the ads from prominent financial firms hyping an ill-fated strategy. Well worth the read - especially if you have a basic understanding of investing.

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