Investing History

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    • Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future
    • By: Mark J. Higgins CFA CFP®
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Investing in U.S. Financial History will help you understand the fundamental drivers underpinning key economic events, you will internalize investment principles, avoid common pitfalls, and resist the temptation to panic amid market volatility.

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    • A History of Financial Speculation
    • By: Edward Chancellor
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • Devil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to the present day. Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world....

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    • The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 537 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries....

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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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 878 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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    • What Happened to America and How Sound Money Will Fix It
    • By: Lawrence Lepard
    • Narrated by: Walker America
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Most Americans — and people worldwide — understand that despite our remarkable technological advances, something is deeply wrong with the direction of our country and world.

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    • The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies
    • By: Jeremy J. Siegel
    • Narrated by: Scott Pollak
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The stock-investing classic - updated to help you win in today’s chaotic global economy....

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    • Revised and Expanded Third Edition
    • By: Robert J. Shiller
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • With high stock and bond prices and the rising cost of housing, the post-subprime boom may well turn out to be another illustration of Shiller's influential argument that psychologically driven volatility is an inherent characteristic of all asset markets....

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    • How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
    • By: Christine S. Richard
    • Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • With a mix of entertaining real-life extracts, client case studies, and personal experiences, Future Proofing Your Business offers potent and refined tools that have been road tested in real-world situations and aren't taught in business school....

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    • The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
    • By: Bethany McLean
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 22 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,027 ratings
    • The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters....

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    • The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
    • By: Gregory Zuckerman
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 812 ratings
    • In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected - that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall....

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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 2,472 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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    • The Hidden History of BTC
    • By: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Steve Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.

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    • Inflation Hedge Strategies of Real Estate, Gold, Bitcoin and More for Hyperinflation
    • By: Clark Vanderbilt
    • Narrated by: Nick Gallagher
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The richest people in the world use inflation investing to protect and grow their wealth during times of currency devaluation. While the average person sees inflation as a financial burden, the smart investor knows how to take advantage of inflation to build generational wealth....

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    • A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
    • By: James Owen Weatherall
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 462 ratings
    • After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, "beware of geeks bearing formulas." But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
    • By: William D. Cohan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan....

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    • Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
    • By: Jim Rogers
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • If the 20th century was the American century, then the 21st century belongs to China....

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    • How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
    • By: Scott Patterson
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,266 ratings
    • In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT....

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