Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

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(Wiley Investment Classics)
by Charles P. Kindleberger

"One never picks up a work by Charles Kindleberger without anticipating a feast of entertainment. But underneath the hilarious anecdotes, the elegant epigrams, and the graceful turns of phrase, Kindleberger is deadly serious. The manner in which human beings earn their livings is no laughing matter to him, especially when they attempt to do so at the expense of one another." –from the Foreword by Peter L. Bernstein, author of Against the Gods and The Power of Gold"

I was sitting here; counting the money in my V-8-Juice Can, with a case of the metafiscal blues, and the word PANIC came to mind.