Good luck with that. To be as pithy as I possibly can, finance is basically politics with numbers attached. Studying history has given me a great insight as t

Good luck with that. To be as pithy as I possibly can, finance is basically politics with numbers attached. Studying history has given me a great insight as to how and why modern financial systems work. Be careful what books you read in your search, more than a few are rhetoric that's shaped like education.