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  1. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  2. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  3. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  4. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  5. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  6. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  7. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  8. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  9. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  10. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  11. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  12. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  13. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  14. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  15. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  16. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Banks and lenders

13 companies holding 70 books.

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Anglo Irish BankAnglo Irish Bank lent to Irish property developers on relationship terms, grew its loan book many times over in a decade, and funded that growth in…2 books
Barings BankBritain's oldest merchant bank, destroyed in 1995 by one Singapore futures trader; the founding case study in rogue trading and control failure.6 books
Bear StearnsThe first big broker-dealer to go, sold to JPMorgan in March 2008 in the run-up to Lehman.7 books
CitigroupCitigroup came out of Sandy Weill's roll-up of Commercial Credit, Primerica, Shearson, Travelers and Salomon Brothers, which merged with Citicorp in…2 books
Countrywide FinancialAngelo Mozilo's lender, the largest US mortgage originator before its 2008 sale to Bank of America; one insider book plus the subprime-industry…5 books
Credit SuisseThe 167-year-old Swiss bank that ran through Greensill, Archegos and a deposit flight into a 2023 shotgun merger with UBS.4 books
Drexel Burnham LambertMichael Milken's junk bond machine, bankrupt in 1990 after the insider-trading prosecutions; the founding literature of the 1980s takeover era.6 books
Goldman SachsThe partnership that became the archetype of Wall Street power, and a magnet for institutional histories and insider exits.7 books
JPMorgan ChaseThe surviving Morgan house and its Chase and Chemical antecedents; most of the literature is either dynastic history or crisis reporting.8 books
Lehman BrothersThe 2008 bankruptcy that turned a credit crunch into a global panic; the richest single-firm failure literature after Enron.8 books
Northern RockThe Newcastle building society turned wholesale-funded lender whose September 2007 queues were Britain's first bank run since 1866.7 books
Salomon BrothersThe bond house that invented mortgage trading and nearly died in the 1991 Treasury auction scandal, saved by Warren Buffett as interim chairman.7 books
Washington MutualThe Seattle thrift that became the largest bank failure in US history in September 2008; one book carries the subject.4 books

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