Books I Recommend

Here are some books you might want to read to better understand the current financial environment. 

Economics:

- Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets ~ William Bonner

- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ~ Charles Mackay

- Economics in One Lesson ~Henry Hazlitt

- Meltdown ~ Thomas Woods

- Devil Take the Hindmost ~ Edward Chancellor

- The Wealth of Nations ~ Adam Smith

- The Road to Serfdom ~ F. A Hayek

Investing:

- Four Pillars of Investing ~ William J. Bernstein

- Hot Commodities ~ Jim Rogers

- A Bull in China ~ Jim Rogers

- Crash Proof ~ Peter Schiff

- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator ~ Edwin Lefevre

- Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom ~ Van Tharp

- A Random Walk Down Wall Street ~ Burton G. Malkiel

- Contrarian Investing ~ Anthony Gallea and William Patalon

- Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing ~ Jason Kelly (Basic primer on investing)

- The ETF Book ~ Richard Ferri

- Where are the Customers' Yachts? ~ Fred Schwed