Frauds and scandals

The Hunt brothers' attempt to corner silver and its collapse in March 1980.

How finance used complexity to hide risk from the 1980s through Enron.

The Libor rigging scandal told through the traders who ran it

Companion investigation into Swiss banks and looted wartime assets.

Pulitzer-winning account of the warehousing fraud that nearly broke Amex.

The 1980s insider-trading cases of Boesky, Levine, Siegel and Milken.

Prosecution-side polemic; the angriest book on the shelf.

Sympathetic; written with access to Milken's circle.

The revisionist defense case.

How one trader's hidden losses in Singapore brought down Barings Bank.

An insider's account of how Morgan Stanley built and sold derivatives in the 1990s.

Commissioned historical study of the wartime record.

How Enron used mark-to-market accounting and hidden deals until its 2001 bankruptcy.

Enron's collapse told scene by scene from depositions, emails and interviews.

Insider: a convicted MCI/WorldCom finance manager.

A six-year short of Allied Capital, and the SEC that investigated the short seller.

Barings' collapse as a case of escalating commitment to a failing course.

Fast first draft, published months after the arrest.

A portrait of Bernie Madoff the man, and how he ran his fraud.

How Ivar Kreuger built a 1920s match monopoly, and the forgeries found at his death.

By the reporter who publicly questioned the returns in 2001.

Bill Ackman's six-year campaign against bond insurer MBIA, from 2002 to 2008.

A nine-year effort to convince the SEC that Bernard Madoff was a fraud.

Insider memoir by Mark Madoff's widow; the collapse from inside the family.

How Bernie Madoff's fraud began, how it ran for decades, and how it collapsed.

Family cooperation; Ruth and Andrew Madoff on the record.

Raj Rajaratnam's insider-trading crime and conviction, and Galleon's fall.

An investor in Russia is expelled, his firms seized, and his lawyer Magnitsky dies.

Insider: the UBS banker whose disclosure ended cross-border Swiss secrecy.

How Ross Ulbricht built Silk Road, the online drug market, until the FBI caught him.

How Jho Low diverted billions from Malaysia's 1MDB fund into parties and politics.

A trader in his parents' London house, and his link to the 2010 flash crash.

Built on prison correspondence and interviews.

Sam Bankman-Fried's rise through Jane Street, Alameda and FTX to its collapse.

Crypto-trade reporter's mechanics-first account.