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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.

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

James Rickards warns of an imminent currency war that could eclipse the 2008 crisis, outlining how U.S. monetary policy, global debasement, and Chinese manipulation threaten the dollar and national security.

Ron Paul challenges the Federal Reserve’s role, arguing it is corrupt, unconstitutional, and driving rampant inflation, and urges reform of U.S. monetary policy.

The Panic of 1907 recounts the 1907 financial crisis that toppled American banks and securities exchanges, the decisive intervention of private banker J. P. Morgan, and the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913 to prevent future panics.

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.