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    • How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
    • By: Mary Childs
    • Narrated by: Mary Childs
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 554 ratings
    • From the host of NPR’s Planet Money comes the deeply investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever....

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    • The Making of the Next Global Crises
    • By: James Rickards
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,772 ratings
    • In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar....

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    • By: Ray Dalio
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles—whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide—shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well....

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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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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 503 ratings
    • The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

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    • The Logic of Economic Calamities
    • By: John Cassidy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 848 ratings
    • Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed, there is a little-known story of bad ideas....

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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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
    • By: Nick Timiraos
    • Narrated by: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....

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    • By: Greg Ip
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • After the global financial panic and recession of 2007–2009, you don’t have to be president or a hedge fund manager to know that “It’s the economy, stupid"....

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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 Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
    • By: James Rickards
    • Narrated by: James Rickards
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,302 ratings
    • The global elites don't want this book to exist. Their plan to herd us like sheep to the slaughter when a global crisis erupts works only if we remain complacent....

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    • How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
    • By: Adam Tooze
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 566 ratings
    • From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shock waves being felt around the world today....

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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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    • Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
    • By: Nouriel Roubini
    • Narrated by: Kamran Khan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • The bestselling author of CRISIS ECONOMICS argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats....

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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: 05-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 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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