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.

    Regular price: $23.36

    • 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....

    Regular price: $19.74

    • 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 876 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 86 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 65 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.

    Regular price: $24.95

    • 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 145 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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    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Barton Biggs
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • Legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs will help the 21st-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy....

    Regular price: $25.78

    • 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 2,470 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....

    Regular price: $13.46

    • 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 52 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 3,023 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....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • 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 263 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....

    Regular price: $29.25

    • A History, Updated Edition
    • By: Charles R. Geisst
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Wall Street is an unending source of legend - and nightmares....

    Regular price: $39.95

    • 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 95 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.

    Regular price: $12.59

    • 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 1,265 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....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
    • By: Justin Fox
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • In his landmark treatment of the history of the world’s markets, Fox uncovers the new ideas that may come to drive the market in the century ahead....

    Regular price: $25.19