You may want to check out my post "EOS Highlights and Favorites from Ethereal and Consensus 2017". It also has links to free online versions of the books he referenced, both great books that I myself have read numerous times in the past.

Also, you may find this post by Martin Armstrong insightful as well: Personal Questions and "The Club".

Rigging markets, manipulating them, or bribing politicians to ensure you make money to me was cheating for what end? Just to be some billionaire to say you are? That made no sense to me and advising many of the richest people in the world showed me that it was not a lifestyle I would ever aspire to for the money then owns you. Plus, those in “The Club” are the most unethical and dishonest people you would ever want to meet. They also own the press who will never write about "the truth behind the curtain".

And yes, I've seen that too... I even knew a few "billionaires" back in the dot.com bubbles days who were literally wiped out and forced into bankruptcy after the bubble burst...

"Big money doesn't chase the market, it makes the market, and eventually due to greed, breaks the market."

It's all fun and games til someone loses a (insert your favorite noun)! lol