If you liked Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, by Michael Lewis, you might like:
Spokane Valley Library Book Club selection for Wednesday, January 16, at 2pm. Read the book, then join the discussion. Everyone is welcome! |
|
 | Conway, James | | The Last Trade | | He’s made a killing for the Rising Fund, which, thanks to his prognostications, was the only hedge operation to anticipate and capitalize on the mortgate crisis of 2008 -- he’s now rich beyond his dreams, but it has cost him his marriage, and now may cost him his life. |
|  | Cooper, Mike | | Clawback | | After a stint in the Middle East, a black ops vet becomes an "accountant" -- the go-to for financiers who need things done quickly, quietly, and by any means necessary. When he’s hired by a major player to pay a visit to a hedge fund manager to demand compensation for a deal gone bad, the guy turns up dead. |
|  | Duffy, Erin | | Bond Girl | | Fresh out of college, she lands a job on Wall Street training in bond sales -- while it’s difficult to break into the boy’s club of a trading firm, she makes the best of it. When she finally gets the chance to execute an actual trade, she loses the firm nearly $100,000 with one mistake, but does find time to date a cute coworker -- is the stress worth it? |
|  | Ferguson, Charles | | Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America | | Ferguson explains how a "predator elite" took over the country, step by step, and describes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest. |
|  | Friedman, Thomas | | That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back | | Analyzes the four challenges we face -- globilization, the revolution in information technology, the nation’s chronic deficits, and our pattern of excessive energy consumption -- and spells out what we need to do now to sustain the American dream and preserve American power in the world. |
|  | Lanchester, John | | I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay | | Viewing the recent economy crisis through the lens of politics, culture, and contemporary history, Lanchester draws conclusions on the limitations of financial and governmental regulation, which he sees as capitalism’s deepest flaw, and, on the plain and simple facts of human nature where cash is concerned. |
|  | Lewis, Michael | | The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | | Lewis tells us that when the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the Fall of 2008, it was already old news -- the real crash, he tells us, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread. |
|  | McLean, Bethany | | All the Devils are Here: The HIdden History of the Financial Crisis | | Goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis, exploring the motivations of everyone, from the famous to the anonymous, proposing that the crisis ultimately wasn’t about finance at all -- it was about human nature. |
|  | McMahon, Katherine | | This is How it Ends | | After losing his job at Lehman Brothers, Bruno Boylan travels to Ireland, finally fulfilling a promise he nmade to his father -- in search of his family roots, he meets and falls in love with an out-of-work architect, a distant cousin who is at first not thrilled with this enthusiastic American. |
|  | McPhee, Martha | | Dear Money | | India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of a writer, is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when a yellow biplane swoops down from the clear blue sky to bring a stranger into her life, one who will change everything -- swaggering Win Jones poses a proposition: "Give me 18 months and I’ll make you a world-class bond trader." |
|  | Morgenson, Gretchen | | Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon | | The authors draw back the curtain on Fannie Mae, revealing the role played not only by their executives but also by others at Countrywide Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, HUD, Congress, the FDIC, and Wall Street, who ignored warning signs of an imminent disaster. |
|  | Narea, H. T. | | The Fund | | U.S. defense intelligence operative is investigating a suspicious international money trail that leads her to the center of a plot involving a new kind of terrorism -- financial terrorism -- perpetrated by a suave, handsome Middle Eastern hedge fund mogul, who’s goal is to wreck the West by bringing the global economy to its knees. |
|  | Robotham, Michael | | The Wreckage | | Billions of dollars are missing from Iraqi banks, and jouralist Luca Terracini will risk everything to discover where it is -- his Iraqi-American background has made it easier for him to inflate the darkest corners of the war, but the death of his beloved Nicola in a suicide bombing has made him reckless, and he has nothing left to lose. |
|  | Sears, Michael | | Black Fridays | | Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves and paid the price with two years in prison -- he’s unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. He discovers that there are problems, alright -- the kind that get you killed. |
|
| |
|
|
|
