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The Case Against the Fed
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2007
The Case Against the Fed
The Case Against the FedThis book is a good primer on the Federal Reserve and banking in general. It is not a hard read and is interesting to those who want to learn about this very important part of our economy. Anyone who has even a remote interest in this book ...
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Ron Chernow
Grove Press, 2001
Learn the history of American finance as a whole by studying one titanic banking empire.
Chernow pioneered the popular study of corporate history with this sweeping history of the Morgan banking empire back in 1990. This is a superb bit of history writing on almost every level: it's intensively researched and documented; it's a great story with a real ...
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The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
Robert J. Shiller
Princeton University Press, 2008
Financial Democracy
For Prof. R.J. Shiller, the root of the subprime mortgage crisis in the US is a myth, the belief that real estate prices must strongly trend upward for demographic reasons.
He proves that the price of real estate, to the contrary, is trending lower. What went up are ...
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The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles, and the Efficient Market Fallacy (Vintage)
George Cooper
Vintage, 2008
4.5 stars-Cooper has connected all of the dots except one-he missed Keynes
Cooper has written a book that currently must be judged to be superior to any other book written on the Subprime mortgage backed bond catastrope that has led the American Treasury Secretary Paulson to advocate the government purchase of about 1 trillion dollars of ...
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Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve
William Fleckenstein, Fred Sheehan
McGraw-Hill, 2008
Brilliant study of a failed system
In this fascinating book, financial journalist William Fleckenstein studies the record of Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.
Between 1937 and 1987 there were no bubbles, but Greenspan helped to create two bubbles in ten years - in ...
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Stop the 401(k) Rip-off!: Eliminate Costly Hidden Fees to Improve Your Life
David B. Loeper
Bridgeway Books, 2007
Every American should read
My name is Matthew Hutcheson. I'm an independent pension fiduciary, and have studied retirement plan economics for over fifteen years. Every American worker with a 401(k) (or a 403(b)/457 for that matter) should put this book on the top of their reading list. The ...
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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
G. Edward Griffin
Amer Media, 2002
Highly Recommended Book!!
This Book traces the International Bankers attempt to control the nations of the world through a privately owned central bank, manipulating and controlling the money supply creating recessions, depressions and financing wars.our Founding Fathers who wrote the ...
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
Bantam, 2008
The best soap opera I've read....
This is a very enjoyable book, particularly for those hoping to get a "feel" for how Buffett has lived his life, over his many years.
What it WON'T do is go into any practical depth as to how he evaluates an investment decision. High-level generalities, yes, ...
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Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus
PublicAffairs, 2008
A book about poverty and Triumph
This books shows us that the lack of access to credit for the poorest of the poor is possibly as bad as lack of food. Without some access to credit they have absolutely no chance to ever get out of the revolving situation that will absorb then and their children. ...
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The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs
Charles D. Ellis
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
A History Of A Survivor
In his massive history of Goldman Sachs (over 700+ pages), Mr. Ellis gives a glowing and comprehensive history of the the investment bank. He writes as the insider he is (a former consultant to the firm) and is not as critical of Goldman Sachs as he could be. Founded ...
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A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig Von Mises Inst, 2002
Fascinating, Behind-the-Scenes Intrigue Revealed!
Absolutely fabulous! Only the incomparable Rothbard could tell this compelling story in its full richness and detail.
Here the hidden history of money and banking in America unfolds as the internecine, behind-the-scenes warfare between elite financial interests ...
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Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy
Ravi Batra
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
Probably the best way to understand today's economic problems
This is probably the best book I have read on economics. The authors really simplifies macroeconomics in laymen's terms. I would recommend this to everyone who want to understand why american economy is so weak and will continue to be so unless fundamental changes ...
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Damn, it Feels Good to Be a Banker: And Other Baller Things You Only Get to Say If You Work On Wall Street
Leveraged Sellout
Hyperion, 2008
A working definition of Schadenfreude...
I pity poor old "Leveraged Sellout", which would be the most wounding thing one could do to him ("one" being a person not blessed enough to work in front office advisory M&A at a bulge bracket investment bank), but only for his timing. After the events of September ...
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Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free
Ellen Hodgson Brown
Third Millennium Press, 2008
It's painfully simple to understand
I never knew how money was made, but now it's crystal clear both how it's made and why we're never taught this in school. We've all been duped and this is undoubtedly the biggest crime in history - yes it is! Want to know how we can reclaim our freedom? Buy this book ...
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The Coming First World Debt Crisis
Ann Pettifor
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
In this book Ann Pettifor examines the issues of debt affecting the first world or OECD countries. She traces the history and roots of where the current international debt crisis comes from--economic liberalization--and the restructuring of the international financial architecture in the early 1970s. The book goes on to explore the implications of ...
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