2008 Financial Crisis – Books

2000s

  • 2009 – Book – Fool’s Gold, by Gilliam Tett
    • JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, Credit Derivatives, Shadow Banking, Housing
  • 2009 – Book – House of Cards, by William Cohan
    • Bear Stearns
  • 2009 – Book – Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin
    • Kindle – Notes
    • Texas Insurance Commissioner, Jamie Dimon (AIG Securities Lending), Dinallo, Hank Paulson (International System, Insurance), Paulson’s Idea or Geithner.
    • (p228) – Willumstad, Dimon, Downgrades, Collateral Calls, Most of AIG’s Cash in Insurance Companies

2010s

  • 2010 – Book – A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, by Lawrence G. McDonald
    • Lehman Brothers
  • 2010 – Book – All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis, by Bethany McLean
  • 2010 – Book – On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System, by Henry M. Paulson
  • 2010 – Book – The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
  • 2010 – Book – Griftopia, by Matt Taibbi  —  [BonkNote]
    • AIG, Win Neuger, Securities Lending, Eric Dinallo, Doug Slape
  • 2011 – Book – Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG’s Corporate Suicide, by Roddy Boyd
  • 2011 – Book – What Caused the Financial Crisis, by Jeffrey Friedman (Editor), Richard A. Posner (Afterword, Contributor)
  • 2013 – Book – The AIG Story, by Hank Greenberg
  • 2014 – Book – Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises, by Tim Geithner
  • 2015 – Book – The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath, by Ben S. Bernanke
    • Brookings – frequently used sources for The Courage to Act, with links; see also A Note on Sources and Selected Bibliography in the printed book – 56p
  • 2016 – Book – Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America, By Bob Benmosche
    • Jim Millstein, Sarah Dahlgren

2020s

  • 2020 – Book – Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street’s Bluff, by Christine S. Richard
    • MBIA