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Ed Blount

Ed Blount

Ed Blount, a longtime contributing editor, founded the Center for the Study of Financial Market Evolution in 2006. Today he serves as the center's executive director. He has testified as a capital markets expert before all three branches of the U.S. federal government. Apart from his non-profit work, he has been a successful entrepreneur, writer, and consultant for 35 years.  When, in 2007, Mr. Blount sold ASTEC Consulting Group to a Fortune 500 data systems vendor, the firm's research cooperatives and online risk/pricing systems were serving 500 institutional investors with counterparty exposures of US$3 trillion. Part of the sale proceeds were deposited in a foundation to fund the Center's activities. Among other writings Blount frequently reviews books for the www.bankingexchange.com's "Books for Bankers" section.

One of several virtual books that contributing editor Ed Blount recommends for learning about the virtual currency, Bitcoin.

Virtual bookshelf of Bitcoin ebooks

Book Review: Guides to a moving target
Currency Wars: The Making Of The Next Global Crisis. By James Rickards. Portfolio Penguin, member Penguin Group, 288 pp.

High-stakes economics and how it impacts our lives

Book Review: Economic history—and our present—revolve around money
The China Crisis: How China’s Economic Collapse Will Lead To A Global Depression. By James R. Gorrie. Wiley, 292 pages

The bigger they come …

Book Review: Could China drag everybody down?
Stalking The Black Swan: Research and Decision Making In A World Of Extreme Volatility, by Kenneth Posner, 288 pp., Columbia University Press, 2010

Stalking The Black Swan: Research and Decision Making In A World Of Extreme Volatility

Book Review: A good practitioner’s guide to catastrophic improbability
Naked Short Selling: Wall Street’s Ugly Mess, by Frank Dobrucki, 240 pp., Crestview Press, Las Vegas, Nev.

Constituency against and for Naked Short

Book Review: Two authors take opposite sides in debate
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers And A World On Fire. By Neal Irwin. Penguin Press, 400 pp.

"The Alchemists" digs into central banks & crisis

Book Review: Reporter's inside view of role of key players in fire control
Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History Of The Secret Bank That Runs The World. By Adam LeBor. Public Affairs, 322 pp.

Taking on the “Tower of Basel”

Book Review: Author seeks end of Bank for International Settlements
How China’s Superbank redraws globe

How China’s Superbank redraws globe

Book Review: Two journalists probe special role of China Development Bank

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