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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.31 — 175,631 ratings — published 2010
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 45,362 ratings — published 2009
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,949 ratings — published 2010
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 48,110 ratings — published 2011
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,480 ratings — published 2014
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,541 ratings — published 2009
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,131 ratings — published 2010
Liar's Poker (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 115,911 ratings — published 1989
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,131 ratings — published 2013
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,618 ratings — published 2000
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,157 ratings — published 2010
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,443 ratings — published 2010
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,613 ratings — published 2010
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,084 ratings — published 2010
Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,142 ratings — published 2015
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,441 ratings — published 2018
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,141 ratings — published 2009
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,954 ratings — published 2008
Fool's Gold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,543 ratings — published 2009
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,041 ratings — published 2009
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,598 ratings — published 2009
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,055 ratings — published 2008
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,005 ratings — published 2009
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,427 ratings — published 2009
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,413 ratings — published 2003
Conspiracy of Fools (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,543 ratings — published 2005
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,565 ratings — published 2011
Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,620 ratings — published 2010
The End of Wall Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,234 ratings — published 2010
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,499 ratings — published 2009
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 92,959 ratings — published 2014
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,427 ratings — published 1978
Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.91 — 496 ratings — published 2012
End This Depression Now! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,902 ratings — published 2012
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,467 ratings — published 2011
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,092 ratings — published 2009
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,764 ratings — published 2020
The Glass Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,532 ratings — published 2020
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.83 — 991 ratings — published 2019
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,252 ratings — published 2016
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,375 ratings — published 2009
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.29 — 46,427 ratings — published 1989
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned—and Have Still to Learn—from the Financial Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.95 — 528 ratings — published 2014
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,280 ratings — published 2014
The Great Crash 1929 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,725 ratings — published 1955
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,620 ratings — published 2007
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,853 ratings — published 2010
Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007 (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.07 — 129 ratings — published 2010
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,193 ratings — published 2009
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,846 ratings — published 2018
“Wall Street's contradictory approach to shareholder value and bull markets sets the stage for a financial crisis.”
― Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
― Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
“...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money.
How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out Banks, Debt, and Money is a bit to me like an ornithologist trying to work out how a bird flies whilst ignoring that the bird has wings...”
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How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out Banks, Debt, and Money is a bit to me like an ornithologist trying to work out how a bird flies whilst ignoring that the bird has wings...”
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