Bestsellers
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1929
- Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
- By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Narrated by: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,674
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Performance2,539
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Story2,539
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It is one of the best narrative histories I’ve read.” —The Wall Street Journal A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 by The Washington Post, TIME, The Economist, Air Mail...
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Good story- bad reader
- By MGS on 11-19-25
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The Creature from Jekyll Island
- A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
- By: G. Edward Griffin
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 24 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,338
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Performance5,589
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Story5,586
Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled....
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Lost confidence in author
- By Amazon Customer on 07-11-20
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Too Big to Fail
- The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
- By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,050
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Performance2,159
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Story2,151
Andrew Ross Sorkin's website Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview on Charlie Rose Watch a Video Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner...
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Best Book About Meltdown
- By Chuck on 12-08-09
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall191
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Performance187
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Story187
The #1 New York Times bestselling account of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. Hear the original story that was turned into an Oscar-winning film directly from the author, Michael Lewis, for the very first time.
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Annoying music throughout
- By Michael Steinheiser on 11-08-25
By: Michael Lewis
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Broken Money
- Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better
- By: Lyn Alden
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall621
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Performance554
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Story554
Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently....
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It’s the ledger stupid
- By Jessica Hopman on 03-14-24
By: Lyn Alden
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The House of Morgan
- An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,465
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Performance3,004
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Story2,980
Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....
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The construction of the House of Morgan
- By Darwin8u on 10-22-18
By: Ron Chernow
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1929
- Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
- By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Narrated by: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,674
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Performance2,539
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Story2,539
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It is one of the best narrative histories I’ve read.” —The Wall Street Journal A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 by The Washington Post, TIME, The Economist, Air Mail...
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Good story- bad reader
- By MGS on 11-19-25
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The Creature from Jekyll Island
- A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
- By: G. Edward Griffin
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 24 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,338
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Performance5,589
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Story5,586
Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled....
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Lost confidence in author
- By Amazon Customer on 07-11-20
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Too Big to Fail
- The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
- By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,050
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Performance2,159
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Story2,151
Andrew Ross Sorkin's website Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview on Charlie Rose Watch a Video Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner...
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Best Book About Meltdown
- By Chuck on 12-08-09
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall191
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Performance187
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Story187
The #1 New York Times bestselling account of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. Hear the original story that was turned into an Oscar-winning film directly from the author, Michael Lewis, for the very first time.
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Annoying music throughout
- By Michael Steinheiser on 11-08-25
By: Michael Lewis
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Broken Money
- Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better
- By: Lyn Alden
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall621
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Performance554
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Story554
Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently....
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It’s the ledger stupid
- By Jessica Hopman on 03-14-24
By: Lyn Alden
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The House of Morgan
- An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,465
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Performance3,004
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Story2,980
Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....
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The construction of the House of Morgan
- By Darwin8u on 10-22-18
By: Ron Chernow
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Billion Dollar Whale
- The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
- By: Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7,677
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Performance6,592
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Story6,579
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar...
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Couldn’t stop listening!
- By N Lane on 10-05-18
By: Bradley Hope, and others
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Den of Thieves
- By: James B. Stewart
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,528
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Performance1,280
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Story1,280
A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of...
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Awesome book
- By Lars Tackmann on 10-23-17
By: James B. Stewart
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The Lords of Easy Money
- How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
- By: Christopher Leonard
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,065
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Performance930
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Story932
The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our...
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Pointless book
- By Darrin on 02-23-22
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Lords of Finance
- The Bankers Who Broke the World
- By: Liaquat Ahamed
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,698
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Performance1,297
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Story1,305
Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have....
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interesting insight into interwar period!
- By Toru on 11-27-09
By: Liaquat Ahamed
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God's Bankers
- A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
- By: Gerald Posner
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall487
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Performance431
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Story431
From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church....
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The book was really good till it wasn't.
- By Dr. JSH on 06-05-16
By: Gerald Posner
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When Genius Failed
- The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
- By: Roger Lowenstein
- Narrated by: Roger Lowenstein
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Abridged
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Overall2,488
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Performance1,785
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Story1,778
John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded...
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When Genius Failed
- By Sean on 12-17-08
By: Roger Lowenstein
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The Trading Game
- A Confession
- By: Gary Stevenson
- Narrated by: Gary Stevenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall568
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Performance527
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Story527
#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER “The Best Wall Street Book of 2024”—Bloomberg A “vivid” (Financial Times) rags-to-riches memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a “darkly funny” (Guardian) tale of Citibank’s one-time most profitable...
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a trader with a conscience
- By What’s Good English on 11-02-24
By: Gary Stevenson
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Tower of Basel
- The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
- By: Adam LeBor
- Narrated by: John Mawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance56
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Story56
Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world's most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers -- including Paul Volcker, the former chairman of...
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world of crooks.
- By Ron on 02-18-26
By: Adam LeBor
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The Secrets of the Federal Reserve
- By: Eustace Mullins
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Story17
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve* by Eustace Mullins investigates the origins, structure, and influence of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, arguing that it was created not solely to stabilize the economy but to serve the interests of an elite banking group.
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This is the red pill to the current financial matrix we live in
- By Ryan on 01-14-25
By: Eustace Mullins
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The Color of Money
- Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
- By: Mehrsa Baradaran
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,083
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Performance929
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Story923
Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....
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Both a Bridge and a Battle Cry
- By Darwin8u on 09-26-17
By: Mehrsa Baradaran
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All the Devils Are Here
- The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
- By: Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,261
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Performance912
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Story908
The New York Times bestseller hailed as "the best business book of 2010" (Huffington Post). 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...
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Excellent!
- By Euri on 11-19-10
By: Bethany McLean, and others
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes (Seventh Edition)
- A History of Financial Crises
- By: Robert Z. Aliber, Charles P. Kindleberger
- Narrated by: Alister Austin
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall101
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Performance81
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Story81
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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Lack of theoretical underpinning
- By Dr. Terence M. Dwyer on 09-20-21
By: Robert Z. Aliber, and others
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The House of Dimon
- How JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon Rose to the Top of the Financial World
- By: Patricia Crisafulli
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall154
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Performance124
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Story124
Jamie Dimon is Wall Street's biggest player. Following the 11h-hour rescue of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan, his profile has reached stratospheric levels....
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Intriguing
- By Jean on 08-28-16
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A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II
- By: Murray N. Rothbard
- Narrated by: Matthew Mezinskis
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall193
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Performance174
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Story177
In what is sure to become the standard account, Rothbard traces inflations, banking panics, and money meltdowns from the colonial period through the mid-20th century....
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Great facts (if selective); ideological rigidity
- By Philo on 02-04-16
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End The Fed
- By: Ron Paul
- Narrated by: Bob Craig
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall952
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Performance688
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Story690
In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not...
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Very clear and understandable
- By Jonnie on 09-19-09
By: Ron Paul
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The Spider Network
- The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
- By: David Enrich
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,110
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Performance973
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Story972
The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history. In 2006, an oddball group of...
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Does anyone "proofread" the audio book?
- By Gracie on 07-04-18
By: David Enrich
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Meltdown
- Greed, Scandal, and the Collapse of Credit Suisse
- By: Duncan Mavin
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Story14
Duncan Mavin tells the incredible story of a once-venerable Swiss bank that produced a litany of financial scandals and whose collapse reveals the amorality at the heart of the global banking system.
By: Duncan Mavin
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Straight to Hell
- True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals
- By: John LeFevre
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,324
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Performance1,174
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Story1,168
Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance....
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Unimpressed
- By kara-karina on 08-06-15
By: John LeFevre
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The Theory of Money and Credit
- By: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance57
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Story57
Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money ever to appear....
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Interesting read
- By Todd Woollen on 07-20-19
By: Ludwig von Mises
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Plastic Capitalism
- Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
- By: Sean H. Vanatta
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.
By: Sean H. Vanatta
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The Death of the Banker
- The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall737
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Performance657
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Story662
Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early 20th century....
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Deep insights, wide comprehension, lively pace
- By Philo on 04-27-17
By: Ron Chernow
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Naked Money
- A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
- By: Charles Wheelan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall609
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Performance538
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Story535
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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This is a beautiful audiobook, and well-narrated.
- By Thirsty Mind on 11-10-18
By: Charles Wheelan
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House of Cards
- A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
- By: William Cohan
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall551
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Performance272
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Story275
House of Cards is the Rosetta Stone for understanding the dramatic and the unprecedented events that have reshaped Wall Street and global finance in the past two years....
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Riveting "Read" About Credit Crisis
- By Thomas on 04-25-09
By: William Cohan
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Fragile by Design
- The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
- By: Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen H. Haber
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance99
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Story100
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none....
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An all-time favorite in banking, history, politics
- By Philo on 05-20-14
By: Charles W. Calomiris, and others