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  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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United States

North America

The deepest capital markets in the world and the reserve currency, which means US credit cycles set the price of risk everywhere; returns here come from scale, corporate governance and repeated bouts of leverage.

Books 11Experts 7Recommenders 14

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  1. The Big ShortMichael Lewis, 2010
  2. The Great Crash 1929John Kenneth Galbraith, 1955
  3. The Rise and Fall of American GrowthRobert J. Gordon, 2016
The Great Crash 1929The Great Crash 1929
T1 The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith · 1955
Open LibraryGoodreads

The late-1920s boom in margin loans and investment trusts, and the 1929 crash.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

A Monetary History of the United States, 186A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
T1 A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz · 1963
Open LibraryGoodreads

The US money stock from 1867 to 1960, and how changes in it drove prices and income.

The Visible HandThe Visible Hand
T1 The Visible Hand
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. · 1977
Open LibraryGoodreads

How salaried managers replaced markets in coordinating US business, 1840 to 1920.

Recommended by: Paul Graham

The Big ShortThe Big Short
T1 The Big Short
Michael Lewis · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

The few investors who saw subprime mortgage bonds would fail, and bet against them.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai and 5 others

The Rise and Fall of American GrowthThe Rise and Fall of American Growth
T1 The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert J. Gordon · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why the inventions of 1870 to 1970 raised living standards as nothing since has.

“This is a heavyweight (literally) masterpiece... It's a data-rich textbook as well as a phenomenal read.” — Christopher Bloomstran

Source: Semper Augustus 2020 Letter to Clients, 'To Read or Not to Read', p. 57

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Christopher Bloomstran and 2 others

The Big ChangeThe Big Change
T2 The Big Change
Frederick Lewis Allen · 1952
Open LibraryGoodreads

How American life changed between 1900 and 1950.

Recommended by: Morgan Housel, Paul Graham

Once in GolcondaOnce in Golconda
T2 Once in Golconda
John Brooks · 1969
Open LibraryGoodreads

Wall Street from 1920 to 1938: the boom, the crash, the Depression and reform.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Brendan Moynihan

TrumanTruman
T2 Truman
David McCullough · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Harry Truman's life and presidency, from the atomic bomb to the Korean War.

Recommended by: Morgan Housel

House of DebtHouse of Debt
T2 House of Debt
Atif Mian, Amir Sufi · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

County data showing household debt, not the banks, caused the Great Recession.

Capitalism in AmericaCapitalism in America
T2 Capitalism in America
Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

American economic growth from colonial times to now, driven by creative destruction.

Men to Match My MountainsMen to Match My Mountains
T4 Men to Match My Mountains
Irving Stone · 1956
Open LibraryGoodreads

Narrative of the American West's mining and railroad fortunes

Recommended by: Charlie Munger

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