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More Meltdown Recommendations from The Wall Street Journal

October 14, 2008

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The Weekend Edition of The Wall Street Journal has a regular feature called Five Best, where the editors ask an expert about the five books that best represent a topic. They have done personal finance and advertising just to name a few. This past weekend, the subject was financial meltdowns.

The Weekend Edition of The Wall Street Journal has a regular feature called Five Best, where the editors ask an expert about the five books that best represent a topic. They have done personal finance and advertising just to name a few.

This past weekend, the subject was financial meltdowns. The column was curated by Martin Mayer, an author of 35 books, many on the financial system. His own bibliography includes The Bankers (1975) and its follow-up The Bankers: The Next Generation (1997), The Fate of the Dollar (1980), Risky Business: The Collapse of Lloyd's of London (1995), and The Fed (2002).

His current recommendations are:

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