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Financial History

History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes...see how past societies and economies have lived through and reacted to financial change.

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8 Book

The Spider Network
The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
David Enrich
Custom House, 2017
8 Book

The Man Who Broke Capitalism
How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
David Gelles
Simon & Schuster, 2022
8 Book

Investing with Keynes
How the World's Greatest Economist Overturned Conventional Wisdom and Made a Fortune on the Stock Market
Justyn Walsh
Pegasus Books, 2021
9 Book

The Color of Money
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Mehrsa Baradaran
Belknap Press, 2019
8 Book

Dark Towers
Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
David Enrich
Custom House, 2020
8 Book

Flash Crash
A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
Liam Vaughan
Doubleday, 2020
9 Report

Waiting for the Last Dance
The Hazards of Asset Allocation in a Late-stage Major Bubble
Jeremy Grantham
GMO, 2021
Book

Ways and Means
Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
Roger Lowenstein
Penguin Press, 2022
8 Article

The Long Economic Hangover of Pandemics
History shows COVID-19’s economic fallout may be with us for decades
Òscar Jordà et al.
IMF, 2020
Book

Lincolnomics
How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
John F. Wasik
Diversion Books, 2021
9 Article

How Centuries of Black Strength Created a Blueprint for Economic Recovery
Black communities have for centuries harbored a spirit of support and mutual aid. It’s time the rest of the country followed their lead.
Douglas Rushkoff
Medium, 2020
Book

The Hour of Fate
Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
Susan Berfield
Bloomsbury, 2020