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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,872 ratings
    • A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter....

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    • Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
    • By: Sebastian Mallaby
    • Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 865 ratings
    • Bolstered by Mallaby’s unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007–2009....

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    • A Financial History of the World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,348 ratings
    • Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance....

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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 280 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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    • Reflections on Financial Crises
    • By: Timothy F. Geithner
    • Narrated by: Timothy F. Geithner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,265 ratings
    • Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial crisis....

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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: 02-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 461 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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    • An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
    • By: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Narrated by: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 867 ratings
    • This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....

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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: 11-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,011 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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    • 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 597 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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    • How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
    • By: Atif Mian, Amir Sufi
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Atif Mian and Amir Sufi reveal in House of Debt how the Great Recession and Great Depression were caused by a large run-up in household debt....

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    • The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
    • By: Patrick Robinson, Lawrence G. McDonald
    • Narrated by: Erik Davies
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 355 ratings
    • One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? Listen to find out more....

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    • The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, Henry M. Paulson Jr.
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 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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    • The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Graham Vick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • In After the Music Stopped, Blinder delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it....

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    • By: Gillian Tett
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • This lively narrative takes listeners behind the scenes, to the inner sanctums of elite finance and to the secretive reaches of what came to be known as the "shadow banking" world....

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    • How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
    • By: William D. Cohan
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • The best-selling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success....

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    • The Corruption of Capitalism in America
    • By: David Stockman
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored....

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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 752 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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    • 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 144 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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