Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Iceland

Europe

A fishing economy that turned three banks into a hedge fund ten times the size of its GDP and then let them fail. Small literature, but three of the books are genuinely good.

Books 9Experts 1Recommenders 3

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  1. BoomerangMichael Lewis, 2011
  2. Meltdown IcelandRoger Boyes, 2009
  3. The Icelandic Financial CrisisAsgeir Jonsson, Hersir Sigurgeirsson, 2016
BoomerangBoomerang
T1 Boomerang
Michael Lewis · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany and California each spent cheap credit.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alfred Lin and 1 other

The Icelandic Financial CrisisThe Icelandic Financial Crisis
T2 The Icelandic Financial Crisis
Asgeir Jonsson, Hersir Sigurgeirsson · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Iceland's banks grew after privatisation, collapsed in 2008 and were resolved.

Meltdown IcelandMeltdown Iceland
T3 Meltdown Iceland
Roger Boyes · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Contemporaneous reporting on the collapse and the Icesave dispute.

Why Iceland?Why Iceland?
T3 Why Iceland?
Ásgeir Jónsson · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

By Kaupthing's former chief economist; insider view of the funding model that failed.

Bringing Down the Banking System: Lessons frBringing Down the Banking System: Lessons from Iceland
T3 Bringing Down the Banking System: Lessons from Iceland
Gudrun Johnsen · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

By an investigator on the Special Investigation Commission; connected lending and cross-ownership.

Iceland and the International Financial CrisIceland and the International Financial Crisis
T3 Iceland and the International Financial Crisis
Eirikur Bergmann · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Political economy of the boom, the Icesave dispute and the aftermath.

Iceland's Secret
T3 Iceland's Secret
Jared Bibler · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account by the investigator who built the market-manipulation cases.

Deep FreezeDeep Freeze
T4 Deep Freeze
Philipp Bagus, David Howden · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Austrian-school reading of the credit boom and currency mismatch.

Iceland's Financial Crisis
T4 Iceland's Financial Crisis
Valur Ingimundarson, Philippe Urfalino, Irma Erlingsdottir · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Academic collection on blame, protest and institutional reconstruction after 2008.

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