 | Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $13.99 Thomas Woods looks at the institutional decisions made both recently and as far back as 1907 that brought us to this point. This is the first great book of the current recession.
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 | The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street as We Know It: What You Need to Know About the Greatest Financial Crisis of Our Time--and How to Survive It by Dave Kansas
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.75 One of the first books, a good, useful summary
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 | Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown by Edmund L. Andrews
Buy new: $15.87 / Used from: $11.00 From the reporter covering it for the New York Times
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 | House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $11.27 Bear Stearns details
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 | Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street by Kate Kelly
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $10.00 another one on Bear Stearns
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 | 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 by Gillian Tett
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $13.51 Some background
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 | Bear-Trap: The Fall of Bear Stearns and the Panic of 2008 by Bill Bamber
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.39 |
 | Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy by Barry Ritholtz
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.95 |
 | Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis by Paul Muolo
Buy new: $17.61 / Used from: $7.00 |
 | Financial Shock: A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis by Mark Zandi
Buy new: $21.36 / Used from: $2.24 |
 | Bailout: What the Rescue of Bear Stearns and the Credit Crisis Mean for Your Investments by John Waggoner
Buy new: $7.54 / Used from: $1.06 Another on Bear Stearns
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 | A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers by Lawrence G. McDonald
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $13.98 One on Lehman Brothers (I worked there 16 years ago)
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 | Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation by Daniel Gross
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 Short book. Read the reviews. I passed this one by.
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