 | The Painspotter's Guide to Broken Britain: 50 People to Love, Hate, Blame, Rate by Andrew Holmes
Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £1.25 The voices in my head told me to write this book...my psychotherapist did too. I hope this is the perfect antidote...at least you can laugh (well after you have cried or just run out of Prozac)
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 | The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means by Vince Cable
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £3.18 An honest politician's view of the credit crunch - may even vote for him!
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 | Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £10.00 If you really want to know why it happened, then this is the best place to start - great read
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 | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £4.16 Superb! Although this predates the crunch it is a wonderful and easy read; fascinating
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 | House of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism: The Fall of Bear Stearns and the Collapse of the Global Market by William D. Cohan
Buy new: £12.72 / Used from: £11.79 This kind of makes you angry...but that's okay, you have every right to be
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 | How I Caused the Credit Crunch by Tetsuya Ishikawa
Buy new: £3.31 / Used from: £0.95 Funny and crass all at the same time; banking at its best (or worst)
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 | The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.77 This is a superb and it's amazing to think that we pay loads of cash to bankers and financial experts; maybe they don't know what they are doing after all?
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 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Buy new: £8.34 / Used from: £5.00 I read this nearly 10 yearas ago, and it's as relevant today, as it has always been
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 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.27 I was working in a bank when this happened...shows that some things have not changed at all. A lesson to us all
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 | A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers by Lawrence G. McDonald
Buy used from: £15.64 Greed it seems is not always good
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