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....

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

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....

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....

In the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the "Great Men" of Wall Street investment bank Lazard Frères & Co. jeopardized all they had built....

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

The secret to unlocking Bitcoin is understanding its principles and properties. Whether you're a seasoned investor or a curious newcomer, this book will transform your relationship with money (and help you gain more of it)....

A course covering financial words and phrases in Mandarin Chinese, using spaced repetition to ensure that phrases learned are committed to long-term memory. This is an ideal way to round out your knowledge of Mandarin Chinese if you work in a financial or investment field....

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

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

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

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

Banking on It is the firsthand account of one woman's quest to rebuild Britain's broken banking system....

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....

In Lombard Street, the money market is pictured as it really was in 1850-1870 and as Bagehot saw it with philosophic eyes....

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....

The coming Augmented Age promises a level of disruption, behavioral shifts, and changes that are unparalleled....

Discussion Materials gives the listener an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank's investment banking division where despotic superiors instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis....

In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....

The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (AMH) presents a formal and systematic exposition of a new narrative about financial markets that reconciles rational investor behavior with periods of temporary financial insanity.

Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama....

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

Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity....

Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial crisis....

Dan Awrey traces the origins of our current bundled system of banking, money, and payments and explains how new technology is rapidly changing the nature of money and the way we pay.