 | The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm by Robert F. Bruner
Buy new: $18.87 / Used from: $3.53 Morgan and his bank were a free-market lender of last resort.
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 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.14 Very engaging story of the world's most overzealous, over-leveraged hedge fund and the government's attempt to craft an orderly wind down.
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 | Vandal's Crown by Gregory J. Millman
Buy used from: $0.01 Excellent account of the rise of the currency trader. The subtitle says it all -- "How Rebel Currency Traders Overthrew the World's Central Banks"
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 | The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869 by Kenneth D. Ackerman
Buy used from: $4.36 An interesting historical account of how much easier it was to corner the market in the 1800s.
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 | Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
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 | When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy by William L. Silber
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 | Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It by Nicholas Dunbar
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 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: $17.63 / Used from: $5.00 Excellent well-cited, investment commentary on probability and why what we don't know is more important than what we do know.
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 | Tug of War: Why You Should Care About the Global Currency Crisis by Paul Erdman
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $4.97 The currency crisis of the 1990's revisited.
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 | A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation by Richard Bookstaber
Buy new: $17.61 / Used from: $5.15 |
 | Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $3.99 |
 | The Chastening: Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The Imf by Paul Blustein
Buy new: $18.90 / Used from: $3.17 |
 | Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law, and Became the World's Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal by A. Craig Copetas
Buy used from: $18.95 The birth of the spot oil market. Marc Rich took off in an airplane as the Feds were chasing him. Now pardoned by Clinton.
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 | The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.21 |
 | The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.34 |
 | Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics) by Charles P. Kindleberger
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $8.38 |
 | Panic of 1819 Reactions and Policies by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $15.99 Rothbard is an intellectual giant!
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 | Wheels of Fortune: The History of Speculation from Scandal to Respectability by Charles R. Geisst
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $3.94 |
 | Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1928 by John Brooks
Buy new: $23.04 / Used from: $6.25 |
 | Tulipomania : The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused by Mike Dash
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.00 Dutch experience but many relevant insights for America in the future.
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 | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
Buy new: $12.91 / Used from: $8.16 |
 | Lombard Street: a description of the money market by Walter Bagehot
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $22.57 A classic...Bagehot was editor of The Economist.
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 | Beyond Greed by Stephen Fay
Buy used from: $7.25 Hunt Brothers attempt a corner in silver with the help of the Saudis. Reads like a mystery.
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| Silver Bulls by Paul Sarnoff
Buy used from: $0.40 Hunt Brothers attempt a corner in silver.
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| The Money Bazaar : Inside the Trillion-Dollar World of Currency Trading by Andrew Krieger
Buy used from: $1.04 Makes you want to become a currency trader.
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| 28 days: A history of the banking crises by C. C Colt
Buy used from: $59.95 A deflationary crisis of the 1930s.
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