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    • How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
    • By: Nick Timiraos
    • Narrated by: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....

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    • Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citi
    • By: James Freeman, Vern McKinley
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • This audiobook is the alarming, untold story of Citigroup - one of the largest financial institutions in the world - from its founding in 1812 to its role in the 2008 financial crisis, and the many near-death experiences in between....

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    • A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 749 ratings
    • In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to public service in Washington's halls of power....

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    • How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
    • By: William D. Cohan
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • The best-selling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success....

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    • How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
    • By: Atif Mian, Amir Sufi
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Atif Mian and Amir Sufi reveal in House of Debt how the Great Recession and Great Depression were caused by a large run-up in household debt....

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    • A Financial History of the World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,324 ratings
    • Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance....

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    • An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
    • By: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Narrated by: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 858 ratings
    • This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....

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    • By: Greg Ip
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • After the global financial panic and recession of 2007–2009, you don’t have to be president or a hedge fund manager to know that “It’s the economy, stupid"....

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    • The History of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

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    • Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
    • By: Mervyn King
    • Narrated by: Greg Wagland
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 416 ratings
    • In The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance....

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    • How Central Bankers Rigged the World
    • By: Nomi Prins
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....

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    • Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance
    • By: Adair Turner
    • Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • With narration by Richard Lyddon, who reveals why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes....

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    • Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy
    • By: Scott Sumner
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It's happened before....

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    • The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
    • By: George Soros
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros writes about the origins of the crisis....

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    • Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Patrick Egan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009 ratings
    • The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history. The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters....

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    • Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
    • By: Lev Menand
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Do the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality? Find out....

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    • How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
    • By: Josh Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • In The Debt Trap, Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell tells the untold story of the scandals, scams, predatory actors, and government malpractice that have created the behemoth that one of its original architects called a “monster”....

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    • The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions....

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    • How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy
    • By: James Rickards
    • Narrated by: James Rickards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • From the man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history comes Jim Rickards’ second prediction—the collapse of our global economy....

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