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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Finance ministers and central bankers

Political leaders and policymakers

Memoirs and biographies of treasury secretaries, finance ministers and central bankers, many written about financial crises.

Books 10Recommenders 4

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  1. Stress Test: Reflections on Financial CrisesTimothy F. Geithner, 2014
  2. Adults in the RoomYanis Varoufakis, 2017
  3. Architect of ProsperityNeil Monnery, 2017
  4. Unfinished BusinessRoger Douglas, 1993
  5. Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11Alistair Darling, 2011
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial CrisesStress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
T2 Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 2008 crisis and its aftermath, from inside the New York Fed and the Treasury.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 2 others

Adults in the RoomAdults in the Room
T2 Adults in the Room
Yanis Varoufakis · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Greece's 2015 debt talks with its creditors, by its finance minister at the time.

Architect of Prosperity
T2 Architect of Prosperity
Neil Monnery · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

John Cowperthwaite, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary in the 1960s, and his policies.

Unfinished BusinessUnfinished Business
T3 Unfinished Business
Roger Douglas · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

The case for sweeping reform from the finance minister who forced it through.

Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11
T3 Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11
Alistair Darling · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

A UK chancellor's memoir of the bank crisis, the guarantee and nationalisations.

The Courage to ActThe Courage to Act
T3 The Courage to Act
Ben S. Bernanke · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Fed chair's account of the financial crisis and what the Fed did and why.

Game OverGame Over
T3 Game Over
George Papaconstantinou · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Greek debt crisis and first bailout, told by the finance minister who signed it.

Backstage
T3 Backstage
Montek Singh Ahluwalia · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider memoir by the architect of much of the reform programme.

In an Uncertain WorldIn an Uncertain World
T4 In an Uncertain World
Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Warren Buffett

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the CoOn the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
T4 On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
Henry M. Paulson · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider memoir: the Treasury Secretary's version of the same weeks.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

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