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Boomerang
Travels in the New Third World
by Michael Lewis
As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to... (more)
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Griftopia
Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
by Matt Taibbi
The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the financial... (more)
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Aftershock
The Next Economy and America's Future
by Robert B. Reich
A brilliant reading of the economic crisis and how we should deal with its aftermath. When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was almost universally directed at Wall Street. But celebrated economic policy maker and political theorist Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a potentially treacherous road ahead. Reich argues that the real problem is structural: it lies in... (more)
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Crisis Economics
A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
by Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm
One man saw it coming. As far back as 2005, Professor Nouriel Roubini – aka 'Dr Doom' – warned that the US housing bubble was set to crash, and what would begin as a national disease would soon spread overseas resulting in a deep recession. Free market fundamentalism would fail and we’d be faced with the worst economic crisis in history, crippling our global economy and bringing the world’s financial systems to... (more)
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On the Brink
Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
by Henry M. Paulson
When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation's next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging. But Paulson had no idea that a year later, he would find himself at the very epicenter of the world's most cataclysmic financial crisis since the Great Depression. Major institutions including... (more)
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All the Devils Are Here
The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
by Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." -Shakespeare, The Tempest As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers? According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed... (more)
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End This Depression Now!
by Paul Krugman
A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge—all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all—remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things gotten? How did we get... (more)
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Bailout
An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
by Neil Barofsky
The former Special Inspector General charged by the Bush and Obama administrations with oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) writes a bracing account of his two-and-a-half years fighting to assure the bailouts served the public’s best interests.
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Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down.and Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again
by Suzanne McGee
You know what happened during the financial crisis … now it is time to understand why the financial system came so close to falling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again. Wall Street has been saved, but it hasn’t been reformed. What is the problem? Suzanne McGee provides a penetrating look at the forces that transformed Wall Street from its traditional role as a capital-generating and... (more)
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Decision Points
by George W. Bush
President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life. Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas... (more)
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The Great American Stickup
How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
by Robert Scheer
In The Great American Stickup , celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story—the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms—Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable... (more)
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The Big Short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or... (more)
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And Then the Roof Caved In
How Wall Street Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees
by David Faber
CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining failure is the complicity of the U.S. government in letting that greed rule the day. Written by CNBC's David Faber, this book painstakingly details the truth of what... (more)