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1. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
by Michael Lewis
As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
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2. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of "No Logo" exposes the gripping story of how America's 'free market' policies have come to ... More
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3. 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
Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed ... More
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4. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
by James Rickards
Drawing on a mix of economic history, network science, and sociology, "Currency Wars" provides a rich understanding of the increasing threats to U.S. ... More
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5. Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse
by James Wesley Rawles
America is in the thrall of a full-scale socioeconomic breakdown. In this chaotic and dangerous environment, a few families and individuals, bound ... More
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6. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
by Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
"All the Devils Are Here" goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis in a way no previous book has done. It ... More
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7. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
by Carmen M Reinhart
"This is quite simply the best empirical investigation of financial crises ever published. Covering hundreds of years . . . Reinhart and Rogoff have ... More
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8. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter ... More
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9. Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
by Professor Thomas E Woods, Jr.
In Meltdown, the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis, New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., explains what led up ... More
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10. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
"The Big Short" tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the ... More
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11. Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
by Michael Lewis
List of all editionsFrom Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and ... More
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12. Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown
by David Wiedemer, Robert A Wiedemer, Cindy Spitzer
List of all editionsFrom the authors who predicted with unmatched precision the domino impacts of the real estate, stock market, and other bubbles that led to 2008's ... More
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13. Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
by Matt Taibbi
List of all editionsFrom the "New York Times"-bestelling author of "The Great Derangement" comes a brilliant, blood-boiling, darkly humorous, and bracingly honest ... More
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14. Rich Dad's Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money
by Robert T Kiyosaki
List of all editionsWhat began as a free online book that was written in serial form to help people understand the current recession, "Rich Dad's Conspiracy of the Rich" ... More
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15. The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
by Robert Scheer
List of all editions"The Great American Stick-Up" exposes the bipartisan groups who have played a formative role in shaping the financial collapse, yet still remain ... More
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16. Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery
by Menxie D. Chinn, Jeffry A. Frieden
List of all editionsWelcome to Argentina: by 2008 the United States had become the biggest international borrower in world history, with almost half of its 6.4 trillion ... More
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17. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
by David Wessel
List of all editionsThis breakout book on the financial crisis is Pulitzer Prize-winner Wessel's inside account of the struggle of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ... More
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18. The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
by Charles R Morris
List of all editionsMorris argues that a more profound economic and political restructuring is on the way. This work is critical to understanding the gross excess that ... More
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19. The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History
by Harry S Dent, Jr.
List of all editionsFrom the author of the bestselling "The Roaring 2000s" comes a new book that predicts a major economic crash and offers advice on how to survive it.
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20. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
by Lawrence G McDonald, Patrick Robinson
List of all editionsMcDonald, a former vice president at Lehman Brothers, offers an intimate look inside the mad house that Lehman became, and shows beyond a doubt that ... More
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21. Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse
by Peter D Schiff, John Downes
List of all editionsOffering a warning of a looming period marked by sizable tax hikes, loss of retirement benefits, double digit inflation, and the possible collapse of ... More
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22. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States
by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (Editor)
List of all editionsIn the wake of the most significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, the President signed into law on May 20, 2009, the Fraud Enforcement ... More
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23. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers and the Great Credit Crash
by Charles R Morris
List of all editionsWith the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the economy, there is little doubt that we are facing a ... More
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24. Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture Is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul
by James Livingston
List of all editions"Since the financial meltdown of 2008, economists, journalists, and politicians have uniformly insisted that to restore the American Dream and renew ... More
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25. Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
by Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
List of all editions"TheNew York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, ... More







