The following list is a list of finance, politics and history I think are either good or provocative. Some are very informative. Others are just here for the shock value.
- Benoit Mandelbrot – The Misbehavior of Markets
- Bernice Cohen – The Edge of Chaos
- Bill Bonner – Financial Reckoning Day
- Charles Kindelberger – The World in Depression
- Charles Kinleberger – Manias, Panics and Crashes
- Charles MacKay – Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
- Christopher Wood – The Bubble Economy
- Connie Bruck – The Predator’s Ball
- Daniel Yergin – The Prize (Oil)
- David Goodstein – Out of Gas (Peak Oil)
- David Marsh – The Bundesbank
- Edward Chancellor – Devil Take The Hindmost
- Edwin Lefevre – Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- Frederick Lewis Allen – Only Yesterday
- James Stewart – Den of Thieves
- James Surowiecki – The Wisdom of Crowds
- Jim Powell – FDR’s Folly
- John Brooks – The Go-Go Years
- John Kenneth Galbraith – A Short History of Financial Euphoria
- John Kenneth Galbraith – The Great Crash 1929
- Joseph Ellis – Ahead of the Curve
- June Fletcher – House Poor
- Maggie Mahar – Bull
- Marc Faber – Tomorrow’s Gold
- Mark Buchanan – Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
- Matthew Simmons – Twilight in the Desert
- Michael Lewis – Liar’s Poker
- Milton Friedman – A Monetary History of the United States
- Murray Rothbard – A History of Money and Banking in the United States
- Murray Rothbard – America’s Great Depression
- Murray Rothbard – The Case Against The Fed
- Murray Rothbard – What Has Government Done to Our Money
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Fooled By Randomness
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb – The Black Swan
- Richard Duncan – The Dollar Crisis
- Robert Shiller – Irrational Exuberance
- Robert Sobel – Panic on Wall Street
- Roger Bootle – Money for Nothing
- Ron Chernow – The House of Morgan
- Ron Chernow – Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
- The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle
Interesting Books (some I like, some I don’t)
- A People’s History of the U.S. – Howard Zinn
- A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein
- Collapse – Jared Diamond
- Destined to Witness – Hans Massaquoi
- FDR’s Folly – Jim Powell
- Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
- Lies My Teacher Told Me – James Loewen
- Love Across Color Lines – Maria Diedrich
- Race – Studs Terkel
- Rogue States – Noam Chomsky
- Suez – Hugh Thomas
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley
- The Bell Curve – Richard Hernnstein
- The Disuniting of America – Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- The Power Broker and the Fall of New York – Robert Caro
- The Promised Land – Nicholas Lemann
- The Right Nation – John Micklethwait
- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers – Paul Kennedy
- The Slave Trade – Hugh Thomas
- The World We’re In – Will Hutton
- Two Nations – Andrew Hacker
- Why Do People Hate America
Here is a list of articles I found very prescient when they were published. I have not updated this list in qute a while but expect to see more added over time.
- 2008 06 – Next Phase of the Credit Crisis to Hit Credit Default Swaps $62 Trillion Market
- 2008 06 – Frank-Dodd Rescue Prolongs Housing Crisis by Deferring Defaults
- 2008 06 – Federal Reserve and ECB are in no mood to save us from the consequences of our debt
- 2008 05 – Immoral Hazard
- 2008 05 – Government Numbers cover up economic misery
- 2008 05 – Funds Rate Set to Battle Crisis, Not Inflation: Caroline Baum
- 2008 05 – Exposed to the Big Squeeze
- 2008 05 – An Incredible League Table – The Credit Crunch In Context
- 2008 04 – What Warren thinks…
- 2008 04 – The Subprime Crisis and Government Failure
- 2008 04 – The Rising Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown: The Twelve Steps to Financial Disaster
- 2008 04 – The Education of Ben Bernanke
- 2008 04 – The De-Leveraging Virus
- 2008 04 – Shiller: Housing slump may exceed Depression
- 2008 04 – Road to ruin? America ponders the depth of its downturn
- 2008 04 – Fortune: Why the party’s over
- 2008 04 – Can Ben Bernanke stop the credit crunch?
- 2008 03 – How We Got Into This Mess!
- 2008 03 – Double Bubble Trouble
- 2008 03 – Buffett: Don’t bank on big returns
- 2008 02 – Credit Crisis Timeline
- 2008 01 – Japan Ghosts of Bubbles Past Haunt U.S. in 2008: William Pesek
- 2008 01 – Grantham Says Shun Stocks, Shift to Cash Amid Crisis
- 2008 01 – America’s inflated asset prices must fall
- 2007 09 – Grantham: Danger: Steep drop ahead
- 2007 09 – Are we headed for an epic bear market?
- 2007 07 – Grantham Says Hedge Funds, LBO Funds to Collapse
- 2007 05 – Dick Cheney’s Banker Grantham Sees World Bubble
- 2007 03 – The Great Unraveling
- 2007 02 – Edward Chancellor: Ponzi Nation
- 2006 12 – Danielle DiMartino: This isn’t the time to buy starter home
- 2006 08 – Danielle DiMartino: It hasn’t burst, but the housing bubble is real
- 2006 05 – Commodities, Led by Metals, Have Biggest Weekly Drop Since 1980
- 2006 05 – Buffett: Real estate slowdown ahead
- 2006 03 – Danielle DiMartino: Systemic risk is on the bubble
- 2006 01 – Greenspan Leaves a Legacy of Rising Prosperity Burdened by Debt
- 2005 10 – Danielle DIMartino: It’s time to accept housing’s reality
- 2005 09 – Herengracht, Dutch Tulip Bulbs Show Today’s Housing Boom Peril
- 2005 06 – Housing bubble: In come the waves
- 2005 05 – Danielle DiMartino: More than real estate in danger
- 2005 04 – Volcker: An Economy On Thin Ice
- 2005 03 – Running Out of Bubbles
- 2005 03 – Buffett and Munger warn of real estate ‘bubble,’
- 2004 07 – Danielle DiMartino: West Coast housing bubble could rupture at any time
- 2004 04 – In Debate Over Housing Bubble, a Winner Also Loses
- 2004 03 – Greenspan Backs Homeowner Debt as Prices Increase
- 2004 02 – Real Estate Bubbles Still a Worry in NY, California: John Wasik
- 2003 11 – Buffett: Selling The Nation Out
- 2003 09 – Potential Catalyst – Real Estate
- 2003 06 – Fannie Mae’s Raines Sees No Housing Bubble, Low Interest Rates
- 2002 08 – The Run-Up in Home Prices: Is It Real or Is It Another Bubble?
- 2001 12 – Warren Buffett On The Stock Market
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