Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation
Written by Daniel Gross
Narrated by Jesse Boggs
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About this audiobook
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.
Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross is an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World and a cofounder of the first union in the United States at the Starbucks Coffee Co. Mr. Gross is also the founding director of Brandworkers International, a nonprofit organization protecting and advancing the rights of retail and food employees across the supply chain. When it comes to workers’ rights, the New York Times has called Mr. Gross, “earnest, articulate, and dogmatic to a flaw.” He has been arrested for his activism and is currently involved in litigation against the New York Police Department and other governmental defendants for his unlawful arrest at a labor protest in front of the Starbucks store where he was a barista. He is quoted frequently in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and National Public Radio and writes regularly for Counterpunch.org. Mr. Gross serves on the steering committee of the National Lawyers Guild Labor & Employment Committee.
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Reviews for Dumb Money
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Beautiful, really nice write up by Daniel Gross. Got inspired with this book
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A breezy, amiable history of the financial meltdown that provides some insight into exactly why I, and maybe you, haven't been able to find work. Gross writes with the educated, curious non-economist, spending less time debating economic theory and more time illustrating how human failings, such as overconfidence, short memories, and out-and-out greed, fueled the housing bubble. He can be funny, too, though he's sometimes unable to resist the too-obvious joke. Recommended to those who want to know a little more about the economic chaos that we still, as of this writing, find ourselves wading through, but don't expect this book to improve your outlook on human nature or your opinion of investment bankers.