New Century: Fooling Me All of the Time or Why Improper Practices Only Matter When I’m Short and Not Earning Double Digit Dividends by David Einhorn

The Race to Stop the Collapse of Goldman Sachs and Exploit the Crisis, by Henry M. Paulson

The End of Wall Street and the Global Takeover by Financial Oligarchs, by Roger Lowenstein

If Everyone is a Devil, Then No One is Responsible, Particularly not any Wall Street Bank that Your Husband May End Up Getting Paid Big Bucks to Defend, by Bethany McLean

Blame the Meltdown on Outliers Instead of Outright Liars, by Scott Patterson

Crybaby Game: I’m Taller than You Are, and My Banking Friends Didn’t Instigate Securities Fraud, Those Damn Bond Insurers are to Blame, by Christine Richard

Trust Bernanke to Fund, by Andrew Sorkin

The Big Shortcut: Skip Hard-Hitting Facts and Excuse Fraud as Delusion, by Michael Lewis

The Greatest Trade Ever: It Beats Investigative Journalism, by Gregory Zuckerman

Buffett Dearest: If You Had a Hot Line to the Treasury, You’d Sell Your Principles Too, by Janet Tavakoli

Best All-Time Business Book:

The Best Way to Rob a Bank (Again and Again) Is to Own One: How Banking Executives and Politicians Looted the Global Financial System, by William K. Black.

By Janet Tavakoli

web site: www.tavakolistructuredfinance.com

Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct associate professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (1998, 2001), Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance (2003), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, September 2008). Tavakoli’s book on the causes of the global financial meltdown and how to fix it is: Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street (Wiley, 2009).

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