Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly atte

THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which

*Many of us take it as a given that the Great Depression - the consequences of which reverberated for decades, crippling the future of an entire generation and

The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—t

Includes material on Samuel Insull, the Van Sweringen brothers, A.P. Giannini, Robert R. Young, among others.