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    • The Bankers Who Broke the World
    • By: Liaquat Ahamed
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,650 ratings
    • 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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    • A History of Financial Crises
    • By: Robert Z. Aliber, Charles P. Kindleberger
    • Narrated by: Alister Austin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • 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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    • The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
    • By: Saifedean Ammous
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,314 ratings
    • The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications....

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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,066 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 890 ratings
    • If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....

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    • The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
    • By: Justene Hill Edwards
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • Historian Justene Hill Edwards unearths a major turning point in American history in this comprehensive account of the Freedman's Bank and its depositors.

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    • The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
    • By: Simon Johnson, James Kwak
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever....

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    • Episodes in Monetary History
    • By: Milton Friedman
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan....

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    • By: Ludwig von Mises
    • Narrated by: Jim Vann
    • Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 701 ratings
    • 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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    • How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
    • By: William L. Silber
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the 19th century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president FDR during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world during the 1970s altered the course of US and world history....

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    • Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else....

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    • The Next Economy and America’s Future
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert Reich
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 644 ratings
    • While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top....

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    • An Insider's Guide to the Industry
    • By: Michel Fleuriet
    • Narrated by: Doug Greene
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • What is investment banking? How do investment bankers generate profit for their clients? What is the function of each specialty? How has the industry changed in the past decade? Investment Banking Explained delivers a complete overview of investment banking in its modern form....

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    • The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
    • By: Karen Petrou
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Engine of Inequality reveals how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy....

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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 2,868 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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    • The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
    • By: Roger Lowenstein
    • Narrated by: Roger Lowenstein
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,425 ratings
    • Roger Lowenstein, the bestselling author of Buffett, captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end....

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    • Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
    • By: Neil Irwin
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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