Market Crisis

Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no. Not only is free-market capitalism good for the economy, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation’s longest-serving CEO of one of the top 25 financial institutions, John Allison has had a unique inside view of the events leading up to the financial crisis.

Every financial strategy begins with the same truth: survival comes before success. Survive First, Invest Later is a practical roadmap for anyone ready to replace financial panic with structure, patience, and control. When crises hit, markets reward those who can endure—not those who react. This book reveals how to secure your foundation before chasing returns. Through thirty concise, hard-hitting chapters, it dismantles the myths that lead people to overextend, overspend, and overestimate their readiness. You’ll learn how cashflow stability, liquidity management, and emotional ...

In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros places the current crisis in the context of his decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity.

Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.

Every B2B SaaS company is bleeding cash on marketing—and most don't even know it. The median company now spends $2 to acquire $1 of new annual recurring revenue. The worst performers? Nearly $3 per dollar earned. Marketing budgets have doubled since 2019 while performance has dropped by 25%. This isn't a temporary blip or market correction. It's a systemic crisis that threatens the entire SaaS ecosystem. In Spending $2 to Make $1, Stijn Hendrikse reveals the hidden economics destroying marketing ROI across the industry. Through detailed analysis of hundreds of SaaS companies, he exposes ...

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025 A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its...

Need a crisis? Pick one. If you’re a PR professional working in a corporation, startup, small business, or nonprofit, you’ll have to deal with a crisis. When. Not if. Are you prepared to deal with the media? Hold a press conference? Prepare speaking points for the CEO? Give media training? Get a handle on your brand and keep the facts front and center?

Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones. With the new spaces, ultracapitalists have started to believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether. Crack-Up Capitalism follows the most notorious radical libertarians around the globe as they search for the perfect space for capitalism.

In the era of constant online visibility, one misstep can tarnish a reputation built over years. Reputation Repair on Social Media is a crucial guide for individuals, businesses, and brands navigating the aftermath of a social media crisis. This book provides practical, actionable strategies for repairing your image, regaining trust, and transforming online misfortunes into opportunities for growth.

When fear takes over the market, most people freeze, sell low, and swear off investing forever. Yet history proves that every collapse carries the seeds of the next expansion—and every panic hides the greatest transfer of wealth. Crisis Capitalism for the Average Person shows how ordinary people can turn volatility into advantage by learning to think like disciplined contrarians rather than frightened spectators. Drawing on real cycles from the Great Depression to the pandemic era, this book breaks down how markets behave under pressure and how emotions drive every crash. You’ll learn ...

Black Market Billions blows the lid off the world's fastest-growing illicit industry: organized retail crime. Hitha Prabhakar reveals how criminals with ties to terrorist groups around the world are committing huge product thefts, and using the profits to fund terrorist acts. Prabhakar connects the dots and follows the money - from consumers dying for a deal to terrorist cells eager to do the killing.

In this essential handbook—a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project—the co-host of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and bestselling author Phil Town. Growing up, the words finance...

The United States sits atop $37 trillion in federal debt, compounding at a pace that no tax receipts, budget cuts, or political promises can reverse. Interest payments already rival defense spending, and the government depends on constant new demand for Treasuries to keep the machine alive. But what happens when that demand falters—and foreign creditors no longer line up to finance America’s deficits? This book delivers a provocative answer: the U.S. could execute the largest default in history without ever admitting it, using stablecoins and tokenized Treasuries as the escape valve. By...

What if you could turn every market crash into your greatest financial opportunity? In today’s volatile economic environment, understanding how to navigate financial crises isn't optional—it’s essential. Navigating Financial Turbulence with Confidence is the ultimate investment guide for building resilience, mastering financial psychology, and uncovering opportunity amid global uncertainty. Whether you're a novice investor, intermediate trader, or seasoned financial advisor, this book equips you with the proven strategies and mindset necessary to thrive through stock market crashes, ...

In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising - the beating heart of the internet - is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that the true value of consumers' attention is wildly misrepresented.

There’s no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization—virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk. And at least two factions have formed around how to respond. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan, believes humans can never see the big disaster coming.

Uncover the secrets of market cycles and protect your investments with "Identifying Bubbles Before They Burst." Dive into the intricate world of economic bubbles, where fortunes are made and lost in the blink of an eye. This comprehensive guide takes you on a journey through the fascinating history of notable bubbles, from the wild exuberance of the dot-com craze to the global shockwaves of the housing collapse and the whirlwind ups and downs of cryptocurrency. Explore the psychology that drives bubbles – the powerful forces of greed and fear, herd behavior, and cognitive biases that can ...

An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech...

In this study, Edward Yardeni and Melissa Tagg, two of the world’s most experienced and widely followed investment strategists and Fed watchers, provide investors with a practical understanding of the forces that drove monetary and fiscal policies during 2020 in response to the Great Virus Crisis. The focus is on the Fed. At the beginning of the year, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues expected that the longest economic expansion in US history would continue and that the federal funds interest rate would remain range-bound between 1.50% and 1.75%.The outlook changed dramatically ...

Every collapse hides a transfer of wealth. When panic spreads, assets move quietly from the emotional to the prepared. The Chaos Opportunity reveals how fear, volatility, and uncertainty can become the most predictable sources of profit for those disciplined enough to act when others retreat. This book dismantles the myth that crashes destroy value. They don’t—they redistribute it. Across thirty chapters, readers learn how to read market panic as signal, not catastrophe. You’ll discover how liquidity, patience, and structure convert volatility into compounding opportunity, why courage...

Economic chaos doesn’t destroy everyone—it reveals who’s prepared. Recession-Proof Yourself is a strategic guide for building unshakable financial and personal resilience when the world turns unstable. It strips away the noise and replaces fear with structure, giving you a clear playbook to stay liquid, adaptable, and confident through any downturn. Each chapter delivers street-smart strategy grounded in timeless financial principles: preparing for volatility, protecting cash flow, eliminating debt, and turning uncertainty into opportunity. Readers learn how to detect false stability,...