Dumb Money
eBook - ePub

Dumb Money

How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation

  1. 106 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dumb Money

How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation

About this book

The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion dollars to bail out banks and financial institutions -- and that's only the beginning. The financial services industry, and the many industries that depend on it -- from housing to cars -- is in intensive care. So what happened? How did we get to this point of financial disaster? Is the economy just a huge, Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme? It is a complicated and confusing story -- but Daniel Gross of Newsweek has a special gift for making complicated matters easy to understand and even entertaining. In Dumb Money, he offers a guide to the debacle and to what the future may hold. This is not so much a book about who did what, though that's part of the story. Rather, it pieces together the building blocks of the debt-fueled economy, and distills the theory and personalities behind our late, lamented easy money culture. Dumb Money is a book that finally lays it all out in an engaging way, and might just help people invest their money smartly until the gloom passes.

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Information

Publisher
Free Press
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781439159873
eBook ISBN
9781439152898

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Colophon
  3. ALSO BY DANIEL GROSS
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. CHAPTER I WTF?
  8. CHAPTER II The Era of Cheap Money
  9. CHAPTER III The Cheap Money Economy
  10. CHAPTER IV The Era of Dumb Money
  11. CHAPTER V The Era of Dumber Money
  12. CHAPTER VI Hedge Fund Nation
  13. CHAPTER VII The Slow Unmasking
  14. CHAPTER VIII The Great Unwinding
  15. Conclusion
  16. Acknowledgments

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