A Guide To The Best Books On The Financial Crisis

Daily Intel:

This week marks the official publication of the longest, most comprehensive, and highest-priced ($32.95!) work of Crisis Lit yet, New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin's epic Too Big to Fail, which clocks in at a whopping 539 pages (minus the index). "Too Big to Read," you say? Not for Moe Tkacik, one of 7.6 million Americans left unemployed by the current recession, who has compiled this cheat sheet to the crisis literature thus far, complete with some highly subjective Moody's-style ratings.*

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Comments

[mooface]

How about Crashproof 2.0 by Peter Schiff?

[MuteMagazine]

thanks for this!

Mute just posted a review of the crisis book genre:

Failure to Moderate Excess: A Round-Up of Crisis Chronicles
By William Dixon

http://www.metamute.org/en/content/failure_to_moderate_excess_a_round_up_of_crisis_chronicles

Now the dust has settled on the collapse of the banking industry, William Dixon looks back at some crisis bestsellers and finds their limit in a lack of systemic analysis and insistence on reform

[TJCole]

Ralph Nader is raving about this book: it takes a village, he said, did he mean it takes a community.­..I think that's a new title..?

[Prakosh]

I think you mean "It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street" by Nomi Prins!

http://www.amazon.com/Takes-Pillage-Bailouts-Backroom-Washington/dp/0470529598/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256189656&sr=1-1

[TJCole]

That's it Prakosh; Thanks, It's supposed to be dynamite..­.!

[venusvictrix]

Excellent recommendation!

I see the author is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs.

This book appears to the only legitimate accounting of what happened, as all the others persist in peddling the fanciful stories of incompetence, foolishness, and miscalculations. I don't buy that and never have. It was rigged, and I'm going to buy the book and find out how.

Thanks!