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Life is often comedy for the wealthy but tragedy for the impoverished. A contrarian and sardonic perspective serve as an emblem to expose the foibles of investors. This book is a collection of market commentaries by a veteran money manager over the course of 15 years from 2007-2023, covering the advent of the Great Recession of 2008 through the Great Pandemic of 2020 and its aftermath.

Although written as an insider’s book for professional investors, the real motive is essentially a lyrical meditation on much broader themes: the cosmological struggles of market participants, the perpetual fluctuations of winners and losers, the booms and busts of the business cycle, and the dispensation of riches and poverty. Throughout these trenchant essays, the ascent of the capitalist spirit and the pursuit of filthy lucre are both on ample display. The twin pillars of greed and fear that regularly impel the markets to extremes provide the backdrop in this journey through the global markets and the search for certitude. They cover a wide range of topics, not only the various paradigms of investing, but an inquiry into the creation of a philosophical system that is capable of reconciling finance, technology, and humanism.

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What money means and how it fits into our daily routine is the central question of modern adulthood.  We live in an age of money.  The nominal urge to acquire wealth is the singular human motivation that drives social progress, technological advances and, of course, financial markets.  Ironically, money is not the end of worry; it is the beginning.

This book is an inquiry into the values underlying wealth and responsibility.  It assesses the psychic costs imposed upon us by an unrelenting pecuniary culture, not the least of which is an intricate relationship between love, sex and money. The task is thus emancipation from habitual and preconceived ideas of wealth, investing and personal success that reveals how our polymorphous ambivalence towards money reaches deep into American social, psychological and financial life.  Only then can we construct a new paradigm wherein the pursuit of wealth is based upon a viable economics of happiness.

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While the martial arts revolve around the way of personal combat, it also demands that its adherents live in accordance with a certain warrior code of conduct and honor. The martial way promises a long and arduous journey. It is an invitation to the subordination of self, the endurance of sustained practice, and the cultivation of the body and mind, with no tolerance for self-indulgence of any kind. Martial arts without compassion and honor promises only violence. Stripped of its spirituality, it threatens injury and suffering to both its victims and its practitioners. In the end, this higher ideal is what separates the warrior from the predator.

Martial arts skill is based on both physical prowess and  mental refinement.   It is a call to martial artists to embrace a virtuous philosophy of living and training….

Immediate relevance of philosophical thinking on real life martial arts practice….

Punctures the ‘illusion of technique’ represented by many volumes of ‘how to’ picture books.”

A Classical Version of the Martial Arts (from YMAA Publication Center) (pdf)

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Using a combination of market savvy, psychological insight and philosophical reflection that is 
his trademark, Chu takes the reader into the bizarre and terrifying heart of “the great game”  
where the players concoct a strange brew of mathematics, market timing and investor
sentiment to outsmart the competition.   He poses the question:   “Are we still riding the arc of
a rising curve leading us out into the Digital Age?   Or is the wheel about to arrive full circle
once again?”

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 The Mind of the Market seeks no less than to construct a philosophy of mind as applied to  
the financial mind and auction markets.   The stock market is a microcosm for our
economic and psychic strivings.   Chu dissects the financial mind like a laser, revealing various
part of its internal anatomy, generating full-colored, multiple-angle images and magnifications.  
We hear, in turn, the voice of the philosopher, financial historian, psychoanalyst, market
technician, trader, investment banker, and Zen monk.

"The history of the stock market is the history of forgetting….."

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