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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Investors who ignore the past are lost in the present and blind to the future. Investing in U.S. Financial History reveals that there is almost no financial event that is unprecedented.

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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 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 348 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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    • 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 860 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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    • The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
    • By: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • A vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted - and beautiful - commodity in Europe....

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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 131 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 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 523 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 82 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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    • 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 45 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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    • 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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    • 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 179 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....

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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 461 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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    • A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
    • By: Anurag Agrawal
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the milkweed and how this inextricable and intimate relationship has been like an arms race over the millennia....

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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 55 ratings
    • The stock-investing classic - updated to help you win in today’s chaotic global economy....

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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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    • How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
    • By: Christopher Steiner
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,483 ratings
    • The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it....

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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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    • 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 246 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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    • The Inverse of Clown World
    • By: Knut Svanholm, Luke de Wolf
    • Narrated by: Guy Swann
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • As we stand on the cusp of a new political reality, the contours of personal freedom and autonomy are becoming increasingly well-defined.

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