Covering business: Resources and reading

By Mark Tatge

Tutorials and guides

• Understanding Wall Street, by Jeffrey B. Little and Lucien Rhodes

• Barron’s Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, by John Downes and Jordan Elliot Goodman
• The Wall Street Journal Complete Personal Finance Guidebook,  by Jeff D. Opdyke
• Understanding Financial Statements, by Lyn M. Fraser and Aileen Ormiston
• Show Me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories For Mass Communication, by Chris Roush
• The Business of Bull-shit – a humorous guide to spin, hype and pretense in the modern world, by Graham Edmonds
• Live Well on Less Than You Think, by Fred Brock.
• Math Tools for Journalists, by Kathleen Woodruff Wickham
• The Wall Street Journal Complete Money & Investing Guidebook, by Dave Kansas
• Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports, by Howard Schilit.
• Freaknomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• The New York Times Reader: Business and Economics, by Mark Tatge
• Making the Most of Your Money, by Jane Bryant Quinn

Good reads

• The Accidental Investment Banker, by Jonathan A. Knee
• The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America, by Alex Berenson
• MoneyBall, by Michael Lewis
• The Predators’ Ball, the Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders, by Connie Bruck
• The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, by Joel Bakan
• Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
• Beyond Greed: How the two richest families in the world – the Hunts of Texas and the House of Saud trie

  

  d to corner the silver market, by Stephen Fay

• How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, by John Cassidy
• The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It,by Scott Patterson
• Too Big to Fail, the Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial Syst em and Themselves, by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• After-Shock: The Next Economy for America’s Future, by Robert B. Reich
• The End of Shareholder Value: Corporations at A Crossroads, by Allan A. Kennedy

The classics

• The Robber Barons, by Matthew Josephson
• The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefevre.
• When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation and Hyperinflation in Wimar Germany, by Adam Fergusson
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton G. Malkiel

Mark W. Tatge is an author, professor and investigative reporter who spent three decades as a journalist before joining Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Tatge was previously Forbes magazine’s Midwest bureau chief and senior editor in charge of the Forbes’ Chicago operations. He’s a former staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Dallas Morning News and The Denver Post.