Book Review: Bull! by Maggie Mahar

Eric Schleien
Bull!, Maggie Mahar is an excellent book for anyone interested in learning about the stock market, business cycles, busts, booms, etc. It goes behind the scenes of Wall St. and takes a look at stock market cycles, commodity cycles, etc. Now this book isn't about charts or short term market timing but very very long term market cycles. We aren't talking about four quarters or four years but more of what goes on during a cycle of 40 years. This book will get any investor prepared as well as understand what might come in the future. Of course you can' t prognosticate the future of equities or commodities but you can better predict what will happen in my opinion. Bull! takes a look at the most recent boom and bust which lasted from approximately 1982-2004. Anyone who has some interest in business, investing, etc, would in my opinion get a real kick out of this book. I know it opened my eyes to many things I hadn't noticed in the past.