Unraveling the Financial Meltdown

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If you are curious about the factors that led to the 2007 financial crisis, try one of these titles. All of these books are located in the Adult Nonfiction section of the Library.

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Anonymous. Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager. 2010. (332.64524 D).

Bartiromo, Maria. The Weekend that Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account. 2010. (330.9730931 B).

Brown, Gordon. Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization.
2010. (330.90511 B).

Cohan, William D. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street. 2009. (332.660973 C).
     Also available: CD

Faber, David. And Then the Roof Caved In: How Wall Street’s Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees. 2009. (332.6324 F).

Goodman, Peter S. Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy. 2009. (330.973 G).

Greenberg, Alan C. The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns. 2010. (332.660973 G).

Johnson, Simon and James Kwak. 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown. 2010. (332.10973 J).
     Also available: CD

Lanchester, John. I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay.
2010. (330.905 L).
     Also available: CD

Lewis, Michael. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. 2010. (330.973 L).
     Also available: Large Type, CD, eReader

Lowenstein, Roger. The End of Wall Street. 2010. (332.64273 L).

Mallaby, Sebastian. More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite. 2010. (332.64524 M).
     Also available: CD

McDonald, Lawrence G. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers. 2009. (332.62 M).
     Also available: CD

McGee, Suzanne. Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down—and Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again. 2010. (332.660973 M).

McLean, Bethany and Joe Nocera. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. 2010. (330.9730931 M).
     Also available: eBook, eAudiobook

Michaelson, Adam. The Foreclosure of America: The Inside Story of the Rise and Fall of Countrywide Home Loans, the Mortgage Crisis, and the Default of the American Dream. 2009. (332.3 M).

Patterson, Scott. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It. 2010. (332.640922 P).
     Also available: CD

Paulson, Henry M. On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System. 2010. (330.9730932 P).

Perino, Michael. The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance. 2010. (330.9730916 P).
     Also available: CD

Rajan, Raghuram G. Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. 2010. (330.905 R).

Reich, Robert B. Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future. 2010.
(330.973 R).
     Also available: CD

Roubini, Nouriel. Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance. 2010. (338.542 R).
     Also available: CD

Sorkin, Andrew Ross. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis--and Themselves. 2009.
(330.9730931 S).
     Also available: CD, eAudiobook

Soros, George. The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means. 2008. (332.0973 S).

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. 2010. (330.973 S).
     Also available: CD

Tett, Gillian. Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe. 2009. (332.660973 T).
     Also available: CD

Wessel, David. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic. 2009.
(332.110973 W).
     Also available: eAudiobook

Williams, Mark T. Uncontrolled Risk: The Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the World Financial System. 2010. (332.620973 W).