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Comeback: America's New Economic Boom

by Charles R. Morris

Charles R. Morris’s The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States...

AmeriCola Story

by Dr. Andrew Manley

The AmeriCola Story is an autobiographical account of one black man's struggle for equal opportunity in the then racially divided business community of Los Angeles, CA. This riveting novel is the true story...

How the West Was Lost

by Dambisa Moyo

In How the West Was Lost, the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the West’s economic supremacy. She examines how the West’s flawed financial decisions...

Climate Capitalism

by L. Hunter Lovins & Boyd Cohen

Believe in climate change. Or don’t. It doesn’t matter.  But you’d better understand this: the best route to rebuilding our economy, our cities, and our job markets, as well as assuring national security,...

Priceless

by William Poundstone

Prada stores carry a few obscenely expensive items in order to boost sales for everything else (which look like bargains in comparison). People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them...

How Markets Fail

by John Cassidy

Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For fifty years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how...

Offshore

by William Brittain-Catlin

A revealing-and chilling-exposé on the hidden side of global wealth and power

A revealing-and chilling-exposé on the hidden side of global wealth and power Offshore is an unprecedented exploration of perhaps...

Toward Rational Exuberance

by B. Mark Smith

The True History, and Dangerous Myths, of the Modern Stock Market.

The stock market is big news now, influencing every aspect of the modern economy. Accepted wisdom has it that the market will provide retirement...

Past Due

by Peter S. Goodman

How Main Street was hit by—and might recover from—the financial crisis, by The New York Times’s national economics correspondent

When the financial crisis struck in 2008, Main Street felt the blow just...

Wall Street Meat

by Andy Kessler

Wall Street is a funny business. All you have is your reputation. Taint it and someone else will fill your shoes. Longevity comes from maintaining that reputation.

Ask Jack Grubman, the All-Star telecom analyst...