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booker

Washington, DC

Booker Williams spent eight years between the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve, 2014 to 2022, before stepping out to write full-time. B.A. Howard, M.P.P. Princeton. Lives in Washington with his wife, a public defender, and their daughter. Plays bass in a wedding band on weekends — mostly Motown, some 70s soul.

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Market Crises & Events

The South Sea Bubble of 1720

The South Sea Bubble of 1720 is the episode in which the share price of a chartered London company rose more than eightfold inside six months and gave…

11 min readMar 16
Famous Traders & Investors

Peter Lynch: Invest in What You Know

Peter Lynch ran the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990 and compounded capital at 29.2% a year over those thirteen years, turning a thousand dollars into roughly…

13 min readAug 14
Market Crises & Events

The 2008 Financial Crisis

I grew up on the third block inland from the water in Buckroe Beach, a neighborhood of Hampton, Virginia, and by the autumn of 2010 three of the…

12 min readJul 19