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The Warsh Fed: Balance Sheets and Market Plumbing

With Kevin Warsh taking the chair and signaling reform, these books explain the Fed's balance sheet, crisis tools, and the market plumbing any new regime has to work through.

6 booksMay 22, 2026

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1. America's Bank
Roger Lowenstein
America's Bank provides the historical foundation for how the Fed evolved into its modern balance-sheet role that Warsh...
Shelf signal: 20th-Century America
2. The Lords of Easy Money
Christopher Leonard
The Lords of Easy Money documents recent Fed policy choices and the institutional incentives behind large-scale...
Shelf signal: Banks & Banking
3. Too Big to Fail
William Hughes, Andrew Ross Sorkin
Too Big to Fail gives an inside account of crisis-era interventions that shaped current Fed tools and market backstops.
Shelf signal: Derivatives Investing
4. Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
Flash Boys explains the market plumbing and high-speed trading ecosystem that interacts with Fed liquidity operations.
Shelf signal: Economic Trends
5. The Problem of Twelve
John Coates
The Problem of Twelve analyzes concentration in financial institutions and why Fed rules for market support matter for...
Shelf signal: Private Equity
6. The New Stock Market
Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence Glosten
The New Stock Market explains structural market changes and microstructure that the Fed must consider when altering...
Shelf signal: Investment & Trading Strategies
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