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Recommended Reading
- Liaquat Ahamed: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
This a must-read for anyone interested in history and economics. Ahamed's history is sound and his analysis of how people--even experts--really make economic decisions is exactly on the mark. Niall Ferguson: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
A very readable history and analysis of the major financial marekts.- Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla: A History of Interest Rates
5,000 years of interest rates adn a fascinating read to boot. Hyman P. Minsky: Stabilizing an Unstable Economy
Minsky got it right. He was just 20 years ahead of his time.Robert F. Bruner: The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm
A brilliant case study of the 1907 crash and bank panic with lots of application to the Panic of 2007.Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor--And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
An excellent common-sense guide to the value of economics in the real world.Ted Fishman: China,Inc.
A comprehensive view of America's greatest trading partner...and rival.Bryan A. Garner: Garner's Modern American Usage
Ideal & inexhaustable bathroom reading for anyone who loves language and aspires to write it wellVictor Niederhoffer: The Education of a Speculator
How to lose all your customers' money with style and graceFred Schwed: Where Are the Customers' Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (A Marketplace Book)
Published in 1940, it's still the best book ever written about Wall Street.
Useful Sites
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Contains complete texts of major speeches by Federal Reserve Governors - Census Bureau Home Page
One of several essential sites for US economic data including durable goods orders, retail sales & new home sales - U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) - bea.gov Home Page
One of several essential sites for US economic data including Gross Domestic Product - Bureau of Labor Statistics Home Page
One of several essential sites for US economic data
