Banks & Banking

Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently....

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....

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled....

Uncover the contemporary inner workings of finance, crypto, tech, and finance.

The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan....

As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began....

In The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance....

Enrich your career with a review of investment banking basics....

Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money ever to appear....

Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

Most people don't give a second thought to the Federal Reserve, but they should. In End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Fed is both corrupt and dangerously autonomous....

The autobiography of the larger-than-life, visionary financier and humanitarian who led the World Bank through one of its most intense and tumultuous decades....

This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs....

Jamie Dimon is Wall Street's biggest player. Following the 11h-hour rescue of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan, his profile has reached stratospheric levels....

A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored....

No institution, government, or country is “too big to fail.” A behind-the-scenes account of what led to the 2008 crisis - and may soon lead to a bigger one....

Blockchain technology has been called the greatest innovation since the Internet. Governments and companies are rushing to implement blockchain technology in a range of areas that could impact every person on the planet within a few years...

Smart Mom, Rich Mom explores how women today are navigating the financially challenging career/parenting years....

This account describes how a 28-year-old from Watford, Nick Leeson, plunged Barings Bank into ruin....

Arnold Ziegel formed Mountain Mentors Associates after his retirement from a corporate banking career of more than 30 years at Citibank....

During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, our financial infrastructure failed. Governments bailed out the very institutions that let the economy down. This episode spurred a serious rethink of our financial system....

A riveting exposé of a permanent financial dystopia, its causes, and real-world consequences....

This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the 19th century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president FDR during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world during the 1970s altered the course of US and world history....

In what is sure to become the standard account, Rothbard traces inflations, banking panics, and money meltdowns from the colonial period through the mid-20th century....