Try the books “This Time Is Different” and “The Black Swan”, they’re both high level views on things, the former being about the History of Economic Crashes (and the common folly of thinking that this time is different), so mainly an Economics take, whilst the latter is a Finance Industry point of view about how the 2008 Crash ended up happening and the reactions to, it from a guy who made a lot of money from predicting it.
Might also want to read “Freaknomics” (a book from the Behavioural Economics area, which is maybe the only part of Economics that actually follows the Scientific Method) for a view of how humans actually behave in Economics/Financial domains which thoroughly disproves (not by trying it but simply because it’s what logically follows from the experiments they conducted on human economics behaviours) the complete total bollocks which is Homo Economicus that’s used as foundation of most of the mathematical building which justifies the Free Market Theories so beloved of Neoliberals.
The rest I mainly know it from living through it and following the more Finance specialist news and following a forum (whose name totally evades me) which had a lot of Finance Industry members (so a lot of the posts there were clearly from the kind of person who knows concepts like “discounted value of money” rather than opinionated non-experts) and was towards the Libertarian and Goldbugs side, before it got swamped by Preppers and other such far-right American sub-culture members.
I’ve been outside the Industry for almost a decade now, so I bet that beyond awareness of the (real) fundamentals of Markets and how the Industry operates, I’m less well informed about what’s going on right now than you are.
Try the books “This Time Is Different” and “The Black Swan”, they’re both high level views on things, the former being about the History of Economic Crashes (and the common folly of thinking that this time is different), so mainly an Economics take, whilst the latter is a Finance Industry point of view about how the 2008 Crash ended up happening and the reactions to, it from a guy who made a lot of money from predicting it.
Might also want to read “Freaknomics” (a book from the Behavioural Economics area, which is maybe the only part of Economics that actually follows the Scientific Method) for a view of how humans actually behave in Economics/Financial domains which thoroughly disproves (not by trying it but simply because it’s what logically follows from the experiments they conducted on human economics behaviours) the complete total bollocks which is Homo Economicus that’s used as foundation of most of the mathematical building which justifies the Free Market Theories so beloved of Neoliberals.
The rest I mainly know it from living through it and following the more Finance specialist news and following a forum (whose name totally evades me) which had a lot of Finance Industry members (so a lot of the posts there were clearly from the kind of person who knows concepts like “discounted value of money” rather than opinionated non-experts) and was towards the Libertarian and Goldbugs side, before it got swamped by Preppers and other such far-right American sub-culture members.
I’ve been outside the Industry for almost a decade now, so I bet that beyond awareness of the (real) fundamentals of Markets and how the Industry operates, I’m less well informed about what’s going on right now than you are.