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		<title>John Maynard Keynes to the Rescue</title>
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In September 2008, Chicago School conservative Judge Richard A. Posner broke from his past and wrote (in The New Republic) that deregulation was one of the primary causes of  the 2008-09 recession. He hailed John Maynard Keynes’s 1936 classic, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, and said that “despite its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=366</link>
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		<title>Great Banking Dynasties: Medici, Rothchild, and Morgan</title>
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
By Christopher Hibbert
Harper Perennial, 1999, 364 pages
$11.52 paperback
Founded in 1397 by Giovanni di Bicci de&#8217; Medici in Florence, the Medici Bank became the largest and most respected bank in Europe, and flourished for 100 years. The Medici family was of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=313</link>
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		<title>Post-Meltdown Conservative Economics: Blaming the Fed, Condemning Bailouts, and Urging Free-Market Solutions</title>
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Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
By Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Regnery Press, 2009, 194 pages
$18.45 hardcover, $9.99 Kindle
Woods offers a free-market, small-government assessment of the worldwide financial crisis of 2008-09. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=295</link>
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		<title>Wall Street&#8217;s New Age: Two Eye-Opening 2009 Books</title>
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The Battle for Wall Street: Behind the Lines in the Struggle that Pushed an Industry into Turmoil
By Richard Goldberg
Wiley, 2009, 240 pages
$19.77 hardcover, $15.82 Kindle
A conflict of epic financial proportions has begun on Wall Street. The opposing forces are (a) the sellers, an army of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=272</link>
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		<title>China Emerges as an Economic Superpower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s time to stop hoping for China&#8217;s failure and start&#8230;adapting to its success,&#8221; wrote Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek (10/26/09). Here are the best out of a slew of books on the subject. [Click on the book images for details.]

The Future of Chinese Capitalism
By Gordon Redding and Michael A. Witt
Oxford University Press, 2008, 275 pages
$60 hardcover, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=233</link>
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		<title>Insider Trading in the 1980s: Two Books and a Movie</title>
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Den of Thieves
By James B. Stewart
Touchstone Books, 1992, 587 pages
$11.56 paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner Stewart tells of the biggest insider trading ring in Wall Street history, during the 1980s, centering on arbitrageur Ivan Boesky and junk bond king Michael Milken (of Drexel Burnham Lambert). Both of them seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=214</link>
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		<title>Tools for Market Timers and Technical Analysts</title>
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The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends (Second Edition)
By John J. Murphy
Wiley, 2009, 336 pages
$26.37 hardcover
Written for &#8220;the average CNBC viewer,&#8221; this book helps investors understand and interpret the ups and downs of stock, bond, and fund prices by studying the charts. Murphy covers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=185</link>
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		<title>The End Of Globalization As We Know It?</title>
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The End Of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression
By Harold James
Harvard University Press, 2002, 272 pages
$23.50 paperback, $9.99 Kindle
Globalization is not inexorable or irreversible. It is fragile. That is the message of The End of Globalization. It is written mainly for policymakers, economists, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Investment Fundamentals: in Search of Value</title>
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
By Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig, and Warren E. Buffett
Collins Business 2003, 640 pages
$14.95 paperback, $9.99 Kindle
Originally published in 1949, this book is not for seekers of quick returns. It is for disciplined, long-term investors who are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=136</link>
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		<title>The World is Flat. No, It&#8217;s Curved.</title>
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Updated)
By Thomas L. Friedman
Picador 2007, 672 pages
$10.88 paperback, $9.99 Kindle

The ironic title helped to make this a huge best-seller, but a more apt one would be &#8220;The World is Connected.&#8221; Friedman&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/finance/?p=77</link>
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