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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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The 1929 crash and the Great Depression

Financial panics

The stock market boom of the 1920s, the crash of October 1929, the bank failures and the depression that followed, and the gold standard that spread it.

Books 17Experts 7Recommenders 8
The World in Depression, 1929-1939The World in Depression, 1929-1939
T1 The World in Depression, 1929-1939
Charles P. Kindleberger · 1973
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Depression ran deep because no country would act as the world's stabiliser.

Golden FettersGolden Fetters
T1 Golden Fetters
Barry Eichengreen · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the gold standard spread the Depression, and why leaving it early meant recovery.

Lords of FinanceLords of Finance
T1 Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How four central bankers and the gold standard turned a slump into the Depression.

“I'm going to use "classic" again but rightfully so.” — Christopher Bloomstran

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

Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Mohnish Pabrai

Hall of MirrorsHall of Mirrors
T1 Hall of Mirrors
Barry Eichengreen · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How 1930s lessons guided policy in 2008, averting a depression but adding errors.

Wall Street Under OathWall Street Under Oath
T2 Wall Street Under Oath
Ferdinand Pecora · 1939
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1933 Senate hearings exposing bankers' practices that led to securities laws.

“It's a passage from one of my favorite books, "Wall Street Under Oath.” — Howard Marks

Source: Oaktree memo 'Learning From Enron'

Recommended by: Howard Marks

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

Essays on the Great DepressionEssays on the Great Depression
T2 Essays on the Great Depression
Ben S. Bernanke · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Papers on the Depression's causes, from the gold standard to failing banks.

Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
T2 Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
Maury Klein · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

The best single narrative of 1929 itself.

The Great Depression: A DiaryThe Great Depression: A Diary
T2 The Great Depression: A Diary
Benjamin Roth · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

An Ohio lawyer's diary of the Depression years as he lived through them.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Morgan Housel and 1 other

America's Great DepressionAmerica's Great Depression
T3 America's Great Depression
Murray N. Rothbard · 1963
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Austrian account of 1929 and the policy response that followed

“It's a timeless and timely classic.” — Christopher Bloomstran

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

Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Mohnish Pabrai

The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931
T3 The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931
Aurel Schubert · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

The definitive study of the bank failure that broke Central European finance.

Only YesterdayOnly Yesterday
T4 Only Yesterday
Frederick Lewis Allen · 1931
Open LibraryGoodreads

American life in the 1920s, from the Armistice to the crash.

Recommended by: The Barefoot Investor

Great Crash 1929Great Crash 1929
T4 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

The Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of SeThe Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929-1933
T4 The Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929-1933
Barrie Wigmore · 1985
Open LibraryGoodreads

A reference history of US securities markets from the 1929 crash to 1933.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Forgotten ManThe Forgotten Man
T4 The Forgotten Man
Amity Shlaes · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Great Depression told through the stories of the common people who endured it.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash Th
T4 The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
Grant, James · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1920-21 depression: severe, yet over in eighteen months without stimulus.

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Stre1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
T4 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1929 Wall Street crash: the greed and folly behind America's greatest collapse.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Howard Marks

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