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King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves
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Bloomberg offers a perk for clients that is known as the “lose-your-job free trial.”
It works like this: if you are a paying customer who gets fired, you can request access to a Bloomberg terminal at no cost for some number of months.
The program helps explain one reason Mike Bloomberg has b... See more


In data and analytics, Bloomberg is being challenged by a raft of start-ups. Some of them target smaller investors like me who baulk at paying Bloomberg’s US$24,000 subscription fee. Others target bigger customers who want to go deeper into more specialised data than Bloomberg supports. I use two alternatives—Koyfin and Sentieo.