Global Financial Crisis

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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 55 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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    • The Greatest Ponzi Scheme Ever and How It Threatens to Destroy the Global Financial System
    • By: Vivek Kaul
    • Narrated by: Kaushik Ramachandran
    • Series: Easy Money Trilogy, Book 3
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-19
    • Language: English
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    • This is the third book in the Easy Money trilogy which discusses how what the world now calls the global financial crisis evolved in the aftermath of the real estate bubble bursting in the United States and other parts of the world....

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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: 09-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 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 Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
    • By: Sebastian Mallaby
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 29 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time, from the best-selling author of The Power Law and More Money Than God. Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research....

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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: 04-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 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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    • Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope
    • By: John Allison
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Patrick Egan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
    • By: Henry M. Paulson Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • More than an account about numbers and credit risks gone bad, On the Brink is an extraordinary story about people and politics-all brought together during the world's impending financial Armageddon.....

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    • By: Ben Elton
    • Narrated by: Paul Thornley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • For amiable city trader Jimmy Corby money was the new rock n' roll. His whole life was a party, adrenaline charged and cocaine fuelled....

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    • A History of Financial Crises
    • By: Robert Z. Aliber, Charles P. Kindleberger
    • Narrated by: Alister Austin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In this thoroughly revised edition following the latest crises to hit international markets, economist Robert Z. Aliber introduces the concept that global financial crises in recent years are not independent events, but symptomatic of an inherent instability in the international system....

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    • The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
    • By: Nomi Prins
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street....

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    • A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide
    • By: Roddy Boyd
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the 2007-08 financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis - that of AIG - has until now remained largely untold....

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    • The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
    • By: Rana Foroohar
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Through colorful stories of both “Takers”, those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers”, businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward....

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    • How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
    • By: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders....

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    • A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
    • By: Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This myth-shattering book reveals the methods Nouriel Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming....

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    • How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis
    • By: Paul Muolo, Mathew Padilla
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The authors reveal how human behavior and greed drove the demand, supply, and the investor appetite for these types of loans....

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    • How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation
    • By: Daniel Gross
    • Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this up to the minute account of the current financial crisis, Dan Gross goes step by step through the timeline leading up to the October 2008 bail-out and explains what exactly happened....

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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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