Great Recession

Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles—whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide—shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well....

The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse - and the government's unprecedented response - from our most trusted business journalist....

From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shock waves being felt around the world today....

More than an account about numbers and credit risks gone bad, On the Brink is a story about people and politics - all brought together during the world's impending financial Armageddon....

Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

An illustrated guide to the mad math and terrible terminology of economics, from one of the internet’s favorite financial educators....

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises....

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....

The global elites don't want this book to exist. Their plan to herd us like sheep to the slaughter when a global crisis erupts works only if we remain complacent....

While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top....

In this enriching volume, Chancellor explores the history of interest and its essential function in determining how capital is allocated and priced....

In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar....

A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today. More shows how, it was the connection between people that resulted in more trade, more specialization, more freedom, and ultimately, more prosperity....

Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs....

The Great Contraction, 1929-1933 argues that the Federal Reserve could have stemmed the severity of the Depression....

Why do so many investors make the same mistakes repeatedly - being too bullish or too bearish at just the wrong times? Find out....

A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in the global economy will trigger a multi-trillion-dollar migration of wealth, tracing the fateful decisions that created this crisis—and outlines new rules of investing for the forward-thinking....

Gold and silver have served as the ultimate safe haven from financial chaos throughout history, and today is no exception.

The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971....