Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast

Episode: Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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The intelligent investor

by Benjamin Graham

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"In your lecture on the basics of finance and investing, you mention the book 'The Intelligent Investor' by Benjamin Graham as being formative in your life."
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The intelligent investor

by Benjamin Graham

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"The key is to buy at a price that represents a big discount to that approximation. That gets back to Ben Graham."
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The intelligent investor

by Benjamin Graham

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"As Mr. Graham said, in the short term, the market acts like a voting machine with a bunch of lemmings voting in one direction, which can be concerning."
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America's Cultural Revolution

by Christopher F. Rufo

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"I had someone—a friend of mine—send me Christopher Rufo’s book 'America's Cultural Revolution,' which is sort of a sociological study of the origins of the DEI movement and critical race theory."