Great Recession

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    • How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
    • By: Mary Childs
    • Narrated by: Mary Childs
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 539 ratings
    • From the host of NPR’s Planet Money comes the deeply investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever....

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    • Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
    • By: Nouriel Roubini
    • Narrated by: Kamran Khan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • The bestselling author of CRISIS ECONOMICS argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats....

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    • The Making of the Next Global Crises
    • By: James Rickards
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,758 ratings
    • In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar....

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    • By: Ray Dalio
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles—whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide—shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well....

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    • The Real Story of Interest
    • By: Edward Chancellor
    • Narrated by: Luis Soto
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • In this enriching volume, Chancellor explores the history of interest and its essential function in determining how capital is allocated and priced....

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    • How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
    • By: Adam Tooze
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 554 ratings
    • From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shock waves being felt around the world today....

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    • Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
    • By: Henry M. Paulson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 460 ratings
    • More than an account about numbers and credit risks gone bad, On the Brink is a story about people and politics - all brought together during the world's impending financial Armageddon....

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    • A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
    • By: Charles Wheelan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 594 ratings
    • Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity....

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    • Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
    • By: Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises....

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    • The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
    • By: Barry Eichengreen
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system....

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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 494 ratings
    • The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

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    • The Logic of Economic Calamities
    • By: John Cassidy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 842 ratings
    • Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed, there is a little-known story of bad ideas....

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    • How Central Bankers Rigged the World
    • By: Nomi Prins
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....

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    • A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 748 ratings
    • In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to public service in Washington's halls of power....

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    • Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
    • By: Sheila Bair
    • Narrated by: Joyce Bean
    • Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Sheila Bair is widely acknowledged in government circles and the media as one of the first people to identify and accurately assess the subprime crisis....

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    • By: Roger Lowenstein
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse - and the government's unprecedented response - from our most trusted business journalist....

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    • The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, Henry M. Paulson
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis - from why it happened to where we are now....

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    • Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy
    • By: Scott Sumner
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It's happened before....

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