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    • The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
    • By: Karen Petrou
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Engine of Inequality reveals how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy....

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    • Smashing the Errors of America's Most Famous Keynesian
    • By: Robert P. Murphy
    • Narrated by: Thomas E Woods Jr
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • This book is a relentless assault on the ideas of Krugman and on the Keynesian economics that would have the government direct the economy in order to maximize prosperity and prevent recessions....

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    • Why $75 Trillion of Investor Wealth Is in Mortal Jeopardy
    • By: Alasdair Nairn
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Brown
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Historian and professional investor Alasdair Nairn predicted both the dotcom and subprime collapses, and in this compelling new book shares the evidence that we are living through such a period of deadly excess right now....

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    • Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
    • By: David Wessel
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression....

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    • By: Noam Scheiber
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Deeply sourced within Obama's economic team, Noam Scheiber is uniquely qualified to profile the squad of elite administration insiders who have set and managed the president's economic policies....

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    • Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
    • By: James Kwak, Simon Johnson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and half truths....

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    • By: Edward N. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Understanding wealth in the United States - who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it - is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation....

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    • A Guide to His Economic Thought
    • By: Eamonn Butler
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • One of the great economists of the 20th century, Milton Friedman has always challenged the prevailing economic orthodoxy....

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    • Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler
    • By: Tobias Straumann
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In 1931, Tobias Straumann reveals the story of the fatal crisis, demonstrating how a debt trap contributed to the rapid financial and political collapse of a European country, and to the rise of the Nazi Party....

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    • Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
    • By: Neil Irwin
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars....

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    • Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy
    • By: Daniel Alpert
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Why Western capitalism is broken and how the U.S. can recover its global economic leadership status....

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    • Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
    • By: Charles Morris
    • Narrated by: Nick Summers
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-16-22
    • Language: English
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    • The sub-prime mortgage crisis was only the beginning: a more profound economic and political restructuring was on the way. The astronomical leverage at investment banks with their hedge fund and private equity clients virtually guaranteed massive disruption in global markets....

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    • How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World
    • By: Karl Denninger, Charles Hugh Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • How the wealthy and powerful abuse finance to skim immense profits....

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    • Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It
    • By: Richard Vague
    • Narrated by: Charles Kabala
    • Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth....

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    • Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst 2nd Edition
    • By: Vikram Mansharamani, James Grant - foreword
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Engaging and accessible, this popular audiobook helps investors, policymakers, and analysts navigate the radical uncertainty that plagues today's uncertain investing and economic environment....

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    • Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
    • By: John Lanchester
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • The wildest story in the world these days is not fiction; it's what's really happening all around us as the world's global economy has gone into freefall....

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    • Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
    • By: Luigi Zingales
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment - paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism - on a country’s economy....

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    • The Strange Saga of the US Mortgage Giants
    • By: Bethany McLean
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • In 2008 the US Treasury put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a life-support state known as "conservatorship" to prevent their failure - and worldwide economic chaos....

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