Raoul Pal

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Raoul Pal

Raoul Pal is a co-founder of Real Vision, a financial media company offering in-depth video interviews and research publications from the world’s best investors. Prior to starting Real Vision, Raoul ran a successful global macro hedge fund.

Sapiens

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

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Karlie Kloss: "It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical."

Joe Rogan: "Great book... Fucking fascinating... Very enlightening."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This book was so entertaining and useful.

It provides a concise history of humankind and outlines why we have the psychology we do today (this part is great for thinking about investor behavior)."

Changpeng Zhao: "[This book] gives me a greater perspective about how humans emerged and why we behave the way we do."

Daniel Ek: "One of the most-talked-about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason.

Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socio-anthropological history."

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Naval Ravikant: "An orthogonal and clinical examination of the human animal, from the beginning to now.

Humans are story-telling alpha predators that killed the competition and domesticated the survivors. This is our story, and it's not all pretty."

David Sacks: "Yuval Harari’s Sapiens had a big impact on how I approach VC. The theme of the book is that humans obsess over narratives.

So I try to focus on product and metrics as a way to get to ground truth, as opposed to over-indexing on the pitch, which is mostly a story-telling event."

Melinda Gates mentioned this book as one of her 11 favorite books.

Reid Hoffman: "Sapiens has had me thinking a lot about the evolution of humanity and what our future looks like."

Mark Zuckerberg: "I found the chapter on the evolution of the role of religion in human life most interesting and something I wanted to go deeper on."

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Sapiens'.

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

Bill Gurley: "I really enjoyed [Sapiens]"

Bill Gates: "Melinda and I spent weeks talking about this history of the human race."

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

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The Great Crash of 1929

The Great Crash of 1929

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Warren Buffett: "A wonderful book.”

Raoul Pal: "It's a great book"

Technofeudalism

Technofeudalism

Yanis Varoufakis

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Raoul Pal: "Fascinating"

This Time Is Different

This Time Is Different

Carmen Reinhart
The Creature from Jekyll Island

The Creature from Jekyll Island

G. Edward Griffin
DeMark Indicators

DeMark Indicators

Jason Perl
Timelines of World History

Timelines of World History

Matt Baker
The Crisis of Global Capitalism

The Crisis of Global Capitalism

George Soros
The Energy World Is Flat

The Energy World Is Flat

Daniel Lacalle

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Raoul Pal: "Loved this book."

The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky

Paul Bowles
Why Minsky Matters

Why Minsky Matters

L. Randall Wray
David Bowie

David Bowie

Dylan Jones
Flow

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Monsoon

Monsoon

Robert Kaplan

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Robert Kaplan's book loosely inspired Raoul Pal's Monsoon theory.

The Global Macro Edge

The Global Macro Edge

John Netto

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Raoul Pal: "A great read!"

A Great Leap Forward?

A Great Leap Forward?

John Mauldin & Worth Wray
Investment Biker

Investment Biker

Jim Rogers

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Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

John Murphy

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Inside The House of Money

Inside The House of Money

Steven Drobny
The New Market Wizards

The New Market Wizards

Jack Schwager
Freakonomics

Freakonomics

Steven Levitt
Chaos Monkeys

Chaos Monkeys

Antonio Garcia Martinez
Trust Me, I'm Lying

Trust Me, I'm Lying

Ryan Holiday
The Silk Roads

The Silk Roads

Peter Frankopan

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Sapiens
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
The Lean Startup
Superforecasting
The Bitcoin Standard
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Second Machine Age
The Internet of Money Volume 1
Against The Gods
When Genius Failed
The Ascent of Money
Billion Dollar Whale
Homo Deus
The Undoing Project
Lifespan
The Price of Tomorrow
The Black Swan
The Internet of Money Volume 2
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Market Wizards
The Great Crash of 1929
The Fourth Turning
Conspiracy
Technofeudalism
This Time Is Different
The Creature from Jekyll Island
DeMark Indicators
Timelines of World History
The Great Rupture
The Crisis of Global Capitalism
The Trap
The Energy World Is Flat
The Sheltering Sky
Why Minsky Matters
David Bowie
Flow
Monsoon
The Global Macro Edge
A Great Leap Forward?
Investment Biker
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
Inside The House of Money
The New Market Wizards
Lords of Finance
Freakonomics
Chaos Monkeys
Trust Me, I'm Lying
The Silk Roads

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