Money Crisis. Booms and Busts.
Forces That Change Lives. The Truth in 25 Minutes or Less.
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J.D. de Leon
About this listen
If money is an important topic to you, and if you want to learn why so many aspects of your life and the world are tied to money, then keep reading.
Many today actually feel less aware or knowledgeable of how money, government, and society connect. However, the important keys to understanding have not changed for centuries.
We need once and for all an effective overview of money in this context. The players in this space certainly wield great power. Their wide-reaching influence and actions have critical consequences for the majority of the world. Are they for the greater good or for the destruction of our freedom and happiness?
This book concisely states must-know facts pertaining to:
- Booms and busts, an endless cycle
- Collusion: the Fed and government
- Gold standard and standard of living
- Supply (of what) and demand (by whom)
- Money’s buying power
- Money and market instability
- Our direction and future
The subject is more intriguing and thought provoking than you may have believed, when we see the truth. The concepts of the economy and money take on a more compelling meaning beyond the everyday discussion of business and finance.
If you want to get started on learning these ideas, then I urge you to scroll up and click Add to Cart. See you inside!
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Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth $20? In the third volume of his best-selling Naked series, Charles Wheelan uses this seemingly simple question to open the door to the surprisingly colorful world of money and banking.
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This is a beautiful audiobook, and well-narrated.
- By Thirsty Mind on 11-10-18
By: Charles Wheelan
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Fault Lines
- How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World's Economy
- By: Raghuram Rajan
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed.
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A REAL SNOOZER
- By Frank on 12-02-10
By: Raghuram Rajan
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Why Save the Bankers?
- And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis
- By: Thomas Piketty, Seth Ackerman - translator
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality. Without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies will concentrate wealth in an ever smaller number of hands. Armed with this knowledge, democratic societies face a defining challenge: fending off a new aristocracy. For years Piketty has wrestled with this problem in his monthly newspaper column, which pierces the surface of current events to reveal the economic forces underneath.
By: Thomas Piketty, and others
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Money Mischief
- Episodes in Monetary History
- By: Milton Friedman
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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What kind of mischief can result from misunderstanding the monetary system? The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, as well as Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to appease a few senators from the American West who helped communism triumph in China, are just 2 such mishaps cited in this important work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. This accessible work also provides an in-depth discussion on the creation of value.
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This book is not unabridged.
- By James on 01-18-09
By: Milton Friedman
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The Shifts and the Shocks
- What We've Learned - and Have Still to Learn - from the Financial Crisis
- By: Martin Wolf
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis, but the most persuasive and complete account yet published of what the crisis should teach us about modern economies and economics. The audiobook identifies the origin of the crisis in the complex interaction between globalization, hugely destabilizing global imbalances and our dangerously fragile financial system.
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Good on Europe's problems, fair global update
- By Philo on 01-08-15
By: Martin Wolf
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How the Other Half Banks
- Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
- By: Mehrsa Baradaran
- Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services to cover emergency expenses and pay for necessities - all thanks to deregulation that began in the 1970s.
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The Borrowers at the Fringe
- By Darwin8u on 09-13-16
By: Mehrsa Baradaran
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How Are You Going to Pay for That?
- Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics
- By: Ryan Cooper
- Narrated by: Ryan Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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How Are You Going to Pay for That? is filled with engaging discussions and detailed strategies that policymakers and citizens alike can use to assail even the most entrenched lines of neoliberal logic and start to undo these long-held misconceptions. Equal parts economic theory, history, and political polemic, this is an essential roadmap for winning the key battles to come.
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Yay, Taxes!!!
- By Luvelway on 02-19-24
By: Ryan Cooper
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The History of Banking
- The History of Banking and How the World of Finance Became What It Is Today
- By: K. Connors
- Narrated by: Michael J. Cover
- Length: 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered who started banking and for what reason? Or where money came from and how it's regulated? Ever wonder how banks are able to lend out billions of dollars at a time? This book gives a detailed outline of the history of banking from the 15 century to present day. Whether you are a fellow banker like myself, aspiring to work in the world of finance, or just plain curious, this book covers everything you need to know from top to bottom.
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Changing Lives..
- By jency on 12-12-17
By: K. Connors
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Radical Markets
- Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
- By: Eric A. Posner, E. Glen Weyl
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking - and pretty much all conventional thinking about markets, both for and against - on its head. The book reveals bold new ways to organize markets for the good of everyone.
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Terrible Reader ruins this book
- By Brian W. Veit on 10-30-18
By: Eric A. Posner, and others
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Economics for the Common Good
- By: Jean Tirole, Steven Rendell - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
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When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics, far from being a "dismal science," is a positive force for the common good.
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A Great Overview of the Challenges of Modern Econ
- By Zach Sullivan on 08-06-18
By: Jean Tirole, and others
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- Tony Martelli
- 12-14-22
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This short book is very informative and eye opening. The knowledge of how the economic work is must have information for eveyone.
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- Derbyshire dog
- 12-11-22
Eye-opener !
This may be a relatively short listen but it concisely sums up the nature of money and it’s evolution over time. Opened my eyes to government “usery” and inflation being a veiled tax.
Questions the future of capitalism
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- clement Mwale
- 12-11-22
Great book
Excellent,precise and to the point.Great insights and learning points.Love it.Get this book it will help you!
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- Joh
- 12-10-22
Great insight!
Coming from a cultural that use credit cards to make purchases and pay bills, it’s wonderful to have an audiobook explain in detail of our currency awareness and the financial disaster that has been created by the government. This is a great start to understanding money
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- alloyd
- 12-13-22
Woah!
This is an eye-opener! Very to the point and a short listen but packed with information. Recommend to anyone who wants to better understand how money, government, and society connect.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-10-22
Great Book!
Very interesting and very informative book. Even though it is a short book but I learned a lot from it and it is a great listen.
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- Joakim Alan Kristiansen
- 12-12-22
The root of most of today's material whoas?
This audiobook is a great overview of the current monetary system we live in today. If you've ever wondered why house prices and stocks go up faster than your paycheck look no further. How governments can spend all that extra money without raising taxes, this is here too. Once you release how the system works the main question is, what can you do about it and what are you doing about it? Remember always to keep within your sphere of influence.
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- Deborah Moniaci
- 12-19-22
Informative
An informative book on the history and concepts of money. How the economy reacts, and the government’s role. A great overview of the system that can open the door to further interest in the topic.
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- Elyon
- 12-15-22
A great listening experience
This was packed with wonderful information, and a very nice perspective on money too. I enjoyed the authors writing style, and the narrators voice accompanying it. I think this is filled with a lot of good information and wisdom and it shows the importance of money to all. Love it! As I’m learning more and more about money and choosing to see it as a friend and a beautiful tool.
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- Mr Daniel
- 01-14-23
Insightful
I enjoyed listening to the audiobook. I find it very insightful. Short, however, very interesting. I've learned much about how the government uses tax money and the money itself. I'm glad that I know these things now. The narration was easy to follow too. I highly recommend it.
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