Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich

by Thomas Levenson

“I thought once, that Love and Jealousy were the only Two Things that could make the World mad; but I see now that Avarice and eager Flight of the grasping soul after money is capable of all the Fury and Rage” of any human desire.