Mark Spitznagel

Mark Spitznagel

Risk Manager and Quantitative Trader

Mathematician and hedge fund manager specializing in tail risk hedging and financial market dynamics through rigorous economic theory.

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Mark Spitznagel is a renowned quantitative trader and risk manager best known for developing tail risk hedging strategies that protect against market crashes. He founded Universa Investments and has built a career applying rigorous economic principles to financial markets, advocating for Austrian economics and skepticism of conventional financial wisdom.

3 Books Recommended by Mark Spitznagel

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#1

Economics in One Lesson

by Henry Hazlitt

7 people recommendedrecommended 2x

If I am able to get my children to read only one economics text in their lifetime, God forbid, it would be [this book].

If I am able to get my children to read only one economics text in their lifetime, God forbid, it would be [this book].

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Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Changpeng Zhao, Ben Shapiro, Peter Schiff, Rand Paul, Ryan Petersen

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#2

Human Action

by Ludwig Von Mises

3 people recommendedrecommended 2x

A monumental economics treatise from 1949.

A monumental economics treatise from 1949.

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Also recommended by: Charles Koch, Rand Paul

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#3

The Treasury Bond Basis

by Galen Burghardt

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[My copy of this book is] dog-eared.

[My copy of this book is] dog-eared.

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