"I like Joel Greenblatt's The Little Book That Beats the Market because of its (almost overly) simple explanation at the beginning of the book, " said Jason Thomas, chief investment officer of Aspiriant.

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Thomas Friedman: One of the points in our book is that things have really changed out there.

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"They can buy, sell, share or put a call virtually to any stock, bond or currency in the world, they can do it from their basement, and they can do it with information that in the past brokers would only give to their clients for a charge, " says Thomas L Friedman, of the New York Times, author of a book on globalisation.

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