4.16 avg rating — 44,431 ratings

"Minute-by-minute account during the heart of the crisis. Amazingly well researched, it's like being an observer in some of the most important meetings that took place during the crisis."

3.65 avg rating — 7,295 ratings

"More for the irony than anything. But Greenspan pretty clearly articulates the belief that financial firms will protect themselves and not expose them to unnecessary counterparty risk, which was pretty well debunked by more than a handful of them. Hopefully people see that he was absolutely wrong, and see the value in some of the suggestions by the NYU Stern authors of Restoring Financial Stability"

4.05 avg rating — 7,869 ratings

"Actually a pretty good overview"

4.14 avg rating — 114,169 ratings

"When fixed income was really starting to become hot. Where I learned the phrase, "tear their faces off", often to be repeated."

3.90 avg rating — 3,525 ratings

"Covers JP Morgan and the development of some of the financial products at the heart of the mess. Also explains how banks were taking on huge risk and trying to ignore it."

3.93 avg rating — 2,293 ratings

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3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings

"An attempt to prescribe solutions to prevent similar crises in the future"

3.75 avg rating — 7,493 ratings

"Why defaults happen"

4.30 avg rating — 173,607 ratings

"Who saw the meltdown coming and decided to profit from it (as opposed to those who saw the meltdown but only saw how to profit while the bubble continued to grow--not sure who did the most damage)"

4.10 avg rating — 5,121 ratings

3.96 avg rating — 123,888 ratings

4.16 avg rating — 15,213 ratings

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4.06 avg rating — 591 ratings