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October 7, 2011 • 5:30 am PDT
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GOOD Books is a weekly roundup of what we're reading and what we wish we were reading.

The past couple weeks have brought some unwanted attention to a couple of New York’s most infamous blocks: Wall Street. With protests spreading from the 10005 zip code across the country, the financial sector’s mistakes over the past half-decade are being made extremely public. The people are angry, and now it’s up to the Bull and the government to answer.

But before you sit down to write your own ‘We are the 99 percent’ page, read up on Wall Street’s inner workings with this week’s GOOD Books. From a biography of the dollar to fictional accounts of the trading floor’s best scandals—and explosions!—these books provide a crash course in the state of the American economy. Be warned, though: it's possible the books on this list may make you even angrier with Wall Street than you were before. But at least you’ll be enraged and informed.

Nina Lincoff
Editorial Intern

Posted in: Culture,; Business

Tags: wall street,; books,; finance,; reading,; goodbooks,; occupy wall street

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