Reading List
(In no particular order)
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
The Biography of a Dollar
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Mr. X Interviews: Volume 1: World Views from a Fictional US Sovereign Creditor
The Mr. X Interviews Volume 2: World Views from a Fictional US Sovereign Creditor
America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar
The Violence of Petro-Dollar Regimes: Algeria, Iraq, and Libya
The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street
Essentials of Corporate Finance
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
The Wisdom of Crowds
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Naked, Short and Greedy: Wall Street’s Failure to Deliver
Risk
Options, Futures & Other Derivatives
Options as a Strategic Investment
Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques
The Collapse of Complex Societies
Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything
A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Big Debt Crises
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Hedge Hogs: A Cautionary Tale
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
Irrational Exuberance
The Great Crash of 1929
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined Zimbabwe
Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
The New Great Depression: Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World
Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
Central Banking 101