I've been trying to learn a lot about investment finance in the last 18 months. I find that I probably learn more from light, non fiction texts like Barbarians

I've been trying to learn a lot about investment finance in the last 18 months. I find that I probably learn more from light, non fiction texts like Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker. Why? Because all the strange abstractions of finance are easier to grasp when you have a sense for why they needed to be created. You get the story behind them.