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The Fund
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
- By: Rob Copeland
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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Rob Copeland draws on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm to reveal what really goes on with billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio and his cohorts behind closed doors....
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An important lesson about false prophets
- By Andrea on 25-11-23
By: Rob Copeland
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- By: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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See the history of human civilization from a new perspective - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - literally from the ground up....
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Absolutely fascinating
- By KH on 20-07-23
By: Ed Conway
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Number Go Up
- Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
- By: Zeke Faux
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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After years on the financial world's margins, crypto went mainstream in early 2021. Zeke Faux set out on a quest to pull back the curtain on the wizards behind this new financial machinery....
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Digs into the cesspool of crypto
- By At this for too long. on 24-10-23
By: Zeke Faux
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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History made science
- By Judy Corstjens on 29-04-13
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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The most talked about non-fiction book this year
- By David on 08-08-14
By: Thomas Piketty, and others
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos, exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image....
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Absolutely essential
- By C M Wright on 18-07-19
By: Naomi Klein
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The Fund
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
- By: Rob Copeland
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Rob Copeland draws on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm to reveal what really goes on with billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio and his cohorts behind closed doors....
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An important lesson about false prophets
- By Andrea on 25-11-23
By: Rob Copeland
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- By: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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See the history of human civilization from a new perspective - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - literally from the ground up....
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Absolutely fascinating
- By KH on 20-07-23
By: Ed Conway
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Number Go Up
- Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
- By: Zeke Faux
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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After years on the financial world's margins, crypto went mainstream in early 2021. Zeke Faux set out on a quest to pull back the curtain on the wizards behind this new financial machinery....
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Digs into the cesspool of crypto
- By At this for too long. on 24-10-23
By: Zeke Faux
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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History made science
- By Judy Corstjens on 29-04-13
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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The most talked about non-fiction book this year
- By David on 08-08-14
By: Thomas Piketty, and others
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos, exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image....
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Absolutely essential
- By C M Wright on 18-07-19
By: Naomi Klein
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Edible Economics
- A Hungry Economist Explains the World
- By: Ha-Joon Chang
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world....
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Bravo
- By Majid Dawood on 27-02-23
By: Ha-Joon Chang
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The Price of Time
- The Real Story of Interest
- By: Edward Chancellor
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law's ill-fated Mississippi scheme, to the global credit booms of the twenty-first century....
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Absolutely superb book
- By Anonymous User on 09-02-23
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Courage Is Calling
- A Book About Bravery
- By: Ryan Holiday
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Fortune favours the bold. All great leaders of history have known this, and were successful because of the risks they dared to take. But today, so many of us are paralysed by fear....
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Painful to listen to and not very insightful
- By Amazon Customer on 18-11-21
By: Ryan Holiday
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The Lords of Easy Money
- How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
- By: Christopher Leonard
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....
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A revelation
- By Brian B. on 17-01-22
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The Power Law
- Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
- By: Sebastian Mallaby
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
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Sebastian Mallaby turns his unprecedented access to the industry's central players into a riveting, character-driven account of venture capital and the world it has made....
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Its just betting, but with $Millions
- By Chris on 18-07-22
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Blood in the Machine
- The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
- By: Brian Merchant
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....
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Had me reaching for a hammer
- By Amazon Customer on 26-10-23
By: Brian Merchant
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A Brief History of Central Banking
- How the Quest for Financial Stability Led to Unconventional Monetary Practices
- By: Dominic Haynes
- Narrated by: Jeff Bower
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Whether you’re looking to deepen your knowledge of complex banking practices or simply learn more about central banking as it relates to your everyday life, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction and solid foundation for future study....
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Knowledge is power and so is Banking
- By Anonymous User on 03-11-23
By: Dominic Haynes
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All the Devils Are Here
- The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
- By: Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began....
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Forensic and fascinating
- By BFBG on 04-09-23
By: Bethany McLean, and others
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- By: Zachary D. Carter
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
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At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history....
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Brilliant, excoriating, fascinating, devastating
- By Fletcher Christian on 07-07-20
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Nobody Knows Anything
- Investing Basics: Learn to Ignore the Experts, the Gurus and Other Fools
- By: Robert Moriarty
- Narrated by: John Alan Martinson Jr.
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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It may be as important for investors to know what not to do in investing as to know what to do....
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Good value for money!!
- By DR N. on 10-05-18
By: Robert Moriarty
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The Great Crashes
- Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them
- By: Linda Yueh
- Narrated by: Linda Yueh
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Since the Wall Street Crash in 1929, financial meltdowns have repeatedly sent shockwaves through our world. The Great Crashes tells the stories of ten historic events. They serve as a series of cautionary tales, each with their own set of lessons to be learnt....
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Great for young economists
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-23
By: Linda Yueh
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The Chile Project
- The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
- By: Sebastian Edwards
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how the neoliberal economic model came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric was elected president, vowing that "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave"....
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Kids These Days
- Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- By: Malcolm Harris
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Harris gives us a portrait of what it means to be young in America today that will wake you up and piss you off....
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Crucially insightful
- By Bjørn-Rune Hanssen on 05-07-18
By: Malcolm Harris
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The Ascent of Money
- A Financial History of the World
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Abridged
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The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Niall Ferguson's epic history, The Ascent of Money. Behind each great historical phenomenon there lies a financial secret....
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Decent short overview of history of money
- By Petrit on 18-06-17
By: Niall Ferguson
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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- By: Adam Fergusson
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 9 hrs
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....
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Entertaining and sometimes scarey real-life story
- By Dave on 13-06-11
By: Adam Fergusson
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The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy
- By: Tim Harford
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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In Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, best-selling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of 50 radical inventions that changed the world....
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Good continuation.
- By Jeffrey Archer on 01-07-20
By: Tim Harford
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
- A Brief History of Capitalism
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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Why is there so much inequality? In this short book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answer his 11-year-old daughter Xenia's deceptively simple question....
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Read a different book if you are new to economics
- By Anonymous User on 27-02-21
By: Yanis Varoufakis
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Misbehaving
- The Making of Behavioral Economics
- By: Richard H. Thaler
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals....
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Behavioural Economics in Perspective
- By Judy Corstjens on 27-01-16
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and international bestselling author shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well....
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Helpfully but boring
- By Vaclav on 03-03-23
By: Ray Dalio
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Currency Wars
- The Making of the Next Global Crisis
- By: James Rickards
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics. Author James Rickards concludes that currency wars are as problematic now as they were in 1971 when President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard....
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Great book on geo politics
- By Jason Denison on 22-03-23
By: James Rickards
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The Age of Capital
- 1848-1875
- By: Eric Hobsbawm
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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The first and best major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throughout the world....
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Good book but too quiet
- By Anonymous User on 04-04-22
By: Eric Hobsbawm
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Crashed
- By: Adam Tooze
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
- Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us....
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A must read for understanding the world today
- By P Garbett on 21-08-18
By: Adam Tooze
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Capitalism and Slavery
- By: Eric Williams
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams' landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism and has influenced generations of historians ever since....
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Classic
- By T S on 21-01-23
By: Eric Williams
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The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
- How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
- By: William K. Black
- Narrated by: Scotty Drake
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this expert insider's account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs....
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outrageous story
- By Olly Buxton on 05-07-20
By: William K. Black
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1932
- FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America
- By: Scott Martelle
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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At the start of 1932, the nation's worst economic crisis has left one-in-four workers without a job, countless families facing eviction, banks shutting down as desperate depositors withdraw their savings, and growing social and political unrest. Amid this turmoil, a political decision looms that will determine the course of the nation. It's a choice between two men with very different visions of America: Incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover and New York's Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
By: Scott Martelle
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The Fund
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
- By: Rob Copeland
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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When Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, announced in October 2022 that he was stepping down from the company he founded 47 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio achieved worldwide fame thanks to a mystique of success cultivated in frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles. In The Fund, Rob Copeland draws on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm to reveal what really goes on with Dalio and his cohorts behind closed doors.
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An important lesson about false prophets
- By Andrea on 25-11-23
By: Rob Copeland
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Doomed to Fail
- Why Government Is Incapable of Living up to Our Hopes
- By: Paul Shotton
- Narrated by: Paul Shotton
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In Doomed to Fail, Paul Shotton explains why liberal democracy is the least bad political framework, and why every other political system will inevitably lead to war. Likewise, capitalism, which emerged naturally from the industrial revolution, is the least bad way for a polity to organize economically. Every attempt to improve upon or replace capitalism, however well intentioned, has led to economic disaster. That democracy and capitalism are symbiotic and aligned with the best interests of humanity stems from an underlying mechanism they share with the development of life on earth itself.
By: Paul Shotton
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Pirate Money
- Discovering the Founders’ Hidden Plan for Economic Justice and Defeating the Great Reset
- By: Kevin D. Freeman
- Narrated by: Kevin D. Freeman
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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When they met in Philadelphia in 1787, everyone understood real money as Spanish gold doubloons and silver pieces of eight. The Founders hid a clause in the Constitution that allowed states to use pirate money as legal tender. Adding current technology, their secret can be used to stop the threats of inflation, federal overreach, and the Great Reset while preserving personal liberty and privacy.
By: Kevin D. Freeman
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The Big Fail
- How Our Supply Chains Collapsed When We Needed Them Most
- By: Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
- Narrated by: Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that governments across the world could not adequately protect their citizens. Millions of people suffered and died in just two years, while administrations around the globe blundered; prize-winning economists overlooked devastating trade-offs from the collapse of trade; and elites escaped to isolated retreats. In this compelling economic, political and financial history, veteran journalists Bethany McClean and Joseph Nocera analyse the American response to the pandemic as a case study, to offer fresh and provocative answers.
By: Bethany McLean, and others
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Germany, 1923
- Hyperinflation, Hitler's Pusch and Democracy in Crisis
- By: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions.” He was referring to Germany in 1923, a “year of lunacy,” defined by hyperinflation, violence, a political system on the verge of collapse, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and separatist movements threatening to rip apart the German nation. Bestselling author Volker Ullrich presents a riveting chronicle of one of the most difficult years any modern democracy has ever faced.
By: Volker Ullrich, and others
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1932
- FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America
- By: Scott Martelle
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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At the start of 1932, the nation's worst economic crisis has left one-in-four workers without a job, countless families facing eviction, banks shutting down as desperate depositors withdraw their savings, and growing social and political unrest. Amid this turmoil, a political decision looms that will determine the course of the nation. It's a choice between two men with very different visions of America: Incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover and New York's Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
By: Scott Martelle
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The Fund
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
- By: Rob Copeland
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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When Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, announced in October 2022 that he was stepping down from the company he founded 47 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio achieved worldwide fame thanks to a mystique of success cultivated in frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles. In The Fund, Rob Copeland draws on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm to reveal what really goes on with Dalio and his cohorts behind closed doors.
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An important lesson about false prophets
- By Andrea on 25-11-23
By: Rob Copeland
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Doomed to Fail
- Why Government Is Incapable of Living up to Our Hopes
- By: Paul Shotton
- Narrated by: Paul Shotton
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In Doomed to Fail, Paul Shotton explains why liberal democracy is the least bad political framework, and why every other political system will inevitably lead to war. Likewise, capitalism, which emerged naturally from the industrial revolution, is the least bad way for a polity to organize economically. Every attempt to improve upon or replace capitalism, however well intentioned, has led to economic disaster. That democracy and capitalism are symbiotic and aligned with the best interests of humanity stems from an underlying mechanism they share with the development of life on earth itself.
By: Paul Shotton
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Pirate Money
- Discovering the Founders’ Hidden Plan for Economic Justice and Defeating the Great Reset
- By: Kevin D. Freeman
- Narrated by: Kevin D. Freeman
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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When they met in Philadelphia in 1787, everyone understood real money as Spanish gold doubloons and silver pieces of eight. The Founders hid a clause in the Constitution that allowed states to use pirate money as legal tender. Adding current technology, their secret can be used to stop the threats of inflation, federal overreach, and the Great Reset while preserving personal liberty and privacy.
By: Kevin D. Freeman
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The Big Fail
- How Our Supply Chains Collapsed When We Needed Them Most
- By: Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
- Narrated by: Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that governments across the world could not adequately protect their citizens. Millions of people suffered and died in just two years, while administrations around the globe blundered; prize-winning economists overlooked devastating trade-offs from the collapse of trade; and elites escaped to isolated retreats. In this compelling economic, political and financial history, veteran journalists Bethany McClean and Joseph Nocera analyse the American response to the pandemic as a case study, to offer fresh and provocative answers.
By: Bethany McLean, and others
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Germany, 1923
- Hyperinflation, Hitler's Pusch and Democracy in Crisis
- By: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions.” He was referring to Germany in 1923, a “year of lunacy,” defined by hyperinflation, violence, a political system on the verge of collapse, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and separatist movements threatening to rip apart the German nation. Bestselling author Volker Ullrich presents a riveting chronicle of one of the most difficult years any modern democracy has ever faced.
By: Volker Ullrich, and others
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Popes and Bankers
- A Cultural History of Credit and Debt, from Aristotle to AIG
- By: Jack Cashill
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Amidst the wreckage of financial ruin, people are left puzzling about how it happened. Where did all the problems begin? For the answer, Jack Cashill, a journalist as shrewd as he is seasoned, looks past the headlines and deep into pages of history and comes back with the goods. From Plato to payday loans, from Aristotle to AIG, from Shakespeare to the Salomon Brothers, from the Medici to Bernie Madoff—in Popes and Bankers Jack Cashill unfurls a fascinating story of credit and debt, usury and “the sordid love of gain.”
By: Jack Cashill
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Economics in America
- An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
- By: Angus Deaton
- Narrated by: Angus Deaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America’s strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses the most pressing issues of our times—from poverty, retirement, and the minimum wage to the ravages of the nation’s uniquely disastrous health care system—and narrates Deaton’s own account of his experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist.
By: Angus Deaton
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The Great American Bank Robbery
- The Unauthorized Report About What Really Caused the Great Recession
- By: Paul Sperry
- Narrated by: Milton Bagby
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great American Bank Robbery maps out in detail exactly how Washington social engineers and their accomplices reshaped banking regulations and housing policies and gutted time-tested underwriting standards that led to the worst financial calamity since the 1930s, one that has robbed American households of $14 trillion in net worth.
By: Paul Sperry
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Blood in the Machine
- The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
- By: Brian Merchant
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.
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Had me reaching for a hammer
- By Amazon Customer on 26-10-23
By: Brian Merchant
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Number Go Up
- Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
- By: Zeke Faux
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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After years on the financial world's margins, crypto went mainstream in early 2021. Everybody was talking about it: giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady and Justin Bieber endorsed it, and Washington bigwigs debated new regulations, as if it would be a permanent part of our financial system. It seemed like everyone knew someone who was bragging about their returns from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin and other bizarrely named "digital assets." Observing this mania, Zeke Faux set out on a quest to pull back the curtain on the wizards behind this new financial machinery.
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Digs into the cesspool of crypto
- By At this for too long. on 24-10-23
By: Zeke Faux
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Taming the Street
- The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism
- By: Diana B. Henriques
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Taming the Street describes how President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled to regulate Wall Street in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing Great Depression. With deep reporting and vivid storytelling, Diana B. Henriques takes listeners back to a time when America’s financial landscape was a jungle ruled by the titans of vast wealth, largely unrestrained by government. Roosevelt ran for office in 1932 vowing to curb that ruthless capitalism and make the world of finance safer for ordinary savers and investors.
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brilliant gripping and thougfull book
- By Anonymous User on 18-09-23