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Michael Lewis explains how the 2008 financial crisis unfolded, focusing on subprime mortgages, CDOs, and the people who bet against the collapsing market.

A must-read for anyone wanting to understand the economy without the jargon of academia, Tim Harford's 'The Undercover Economist' offers practical insights into everyday economics in a relatable and accessible way.

Explores the origins and evolution of finance, revealing its role in human progress and economic history.

Jane Mayer investigates how a network of wealthy right‑wing ideologues, led by figures like the Kochs and the Scaifes, pours billions into the U.S. political system to shape policy and expand economic inequality.

Lords of Finance retraces the 1929 collapse through portraits of four central bankers whose policy choices unleashed the Great Depression.

David Halberstam examines how America's mass media empires have ascended in political power, revealing the growing influence of journalism on government and the key figures who shape this media‑policy nexus.

When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation's currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal; and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt. People watched helplessly as their life savings disappeared and their loved ones starved. Germany's finances descended into chaos, with severe social unrest in its wake. Money may no longer be physically printed and distributed in the voluminous quantities of 1923. However, "quantitative easing," that modern euphemism for surreptitious deficit financing in an electronic era, can no less become an assault on monetary discipline. Whatever the reason for a country's deficit -- necessity or profligacy, unwillingness to tax or blindness to expenditure -- it is beguiling to suppose that if the day of reckoning is postponed economic recovery will come in time to prevent higher unemployment or deeper recession. What if it does not? Germany in 1923 provides a vivid, compelling, sobering moral tale.

Poirot investigates the mysterious Big Four organization and the strange events in a thriller novel from Agatha Christie.