The Sages

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Three men who saw through the storm. Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Paul Volcker — the investor, the speculator, and the central banker. In The Sages, acclaimed financial writer Charles R. Morris profiles three men who mastered the markets in three very different ways, and asks what their wisdom means in an age of financial crisis. Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway on patience and value; Soros turned “reflexivity” into one of history’s great fortunes; Volcker broke runaway inflation as Fed chairman from 1979 to 1987.

Written in the wake of the 2008 crash, this compact, lucid book uses three lives to explain how markets really work — and how they break. Morris writes with an insider’s clarity and a historian’s judgment, making complex ideas about money, risk, and power genuinely gripping.

Essential for investors, economics students, and anyone who wants to understand the forces that shape modern finance.

Three men who saw through the storm

Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Paul Volcker — the investor, the speculator, and the central banker. In The Sages, acclaimed financial writer Charles R. Morris profiles three men who mastered the markets in three very different ways, and asks what their wisdom means in an age of financial crisis. Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into an empire on patience and value investing. Soros turned his theory of “reflexivity” into one of history’s great fortunes, including the legendary bet against the British pound. Volcker, as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, broke the back of runaway inflation with punishing interest rates — saving the dollar at the cost of a brutal recession.

Written in the wake of the 2008 crash, this compact, lucid book uses the lives of these three figures to explain how markets really work — and how they break. Morris writes with the clarity of an insider and the judgment of a historian, making complex ideas about money, risk, and power genuinely gripping. An essential read for investors, students of economics, and anyone who wants to understand the forces that shape modern finance.