# BND: Strategy Room Bonus - Summer reading list for 2026

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Podcast: [The Banker Next Door](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-banker-next-door-6597036)
Published: 2026-07-19T19:06:11+00:00
Episode link: https://joeberq.podbean.com/e/bnd-strategy-room-bonus-summer-reading-list-for-2026/
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## Resource

This video is a clip from BND: Strategy Room Live Stream on July 18, 2026. Here is my summer reading list for 2026: 1) Suicidal Empathy by Gad Saad (2026) 2) Reshore: How Tariffs will bring our jobs home plus revive the American dream by Spencer Morrison (2025) 3) The Repo Market: Shorts, Shortages, and Squeezes by Scott E.D. Skyrm (2023) 4) Crisis and Leviathan: Critical episodes in the growth of American government by Robert Higgs (1987) 5) The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the rise of the American Financial Aristocracy by Richard Vague (2026) 6) Steve Jobs in Exile: the untold story of NeXT and the remaking of an American visionary by Geoffrey Cain (2026) 7) 1873: The Rothschilds, the first great depression, and the making of the modern world by Liaquat Ahamed (2026)

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