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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
A Template for Understanding Big Debt Crises
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned—and Have Still to Learn—from the Financial Crisis
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Fool's Gold
Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide
Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
The Astral Library
The Road to Tender Hearts
The defining feature of world politics post the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has been the rise of right-wing populists, who have disrupted politics. It wasn't meant to be this way. Conventional wisdom at the time was that the GFC would lead to the 'social democratic moment'. The theory went that in the aftermath of the GFC - an event which exposed the dangers of relentless deregulation and fuelled an already existing rise of inequality - progressive parties, with a preference for appropriately ...more
Chris Bowen, On Charlatans

Stewart Lee
What's happened is somewhere, along the line, as a society, we confused the notion of 'home' with the possibility of 'an investment opportunity'. What kind of creature wants to live in an 'investment opportunity'? Only man. The fox has his den. The bee has his hive. The stoat, has, uh... his stoat-hole... but only man chooses to make his nest in an investment opportunity. Mmm, snuggled down in the lovely credit! All warm, in the mortgage payment, mmmmm... ...more
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