Introducing an Important Book
on Stock Market Crashes
by Bruce I. Jacobs

Publisher of:

Capital Ideas and Market Realities:
Option Replication,
Investor Behavior
and Stock Market Crashes

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For 1999 we are pleased to announce the publication of Bruce Jacobs' Capital Ideas and Market Realities. Bruce Jacobs has been noted in the Wall Street Journal for predicting the causes of 1987 and 1997 crashes. In this book he identifies the causes of recent market crashes and explains the risks of option replication for option buyers, sellers and investors generally. This book includes a Foreword from Nobel Laureate Harry M. Markowitz

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