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A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible - albeit flawed - engines that power our ideas and should be made to work better for all of us.
Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis in 2008. Maybe you hate the greed of Wall Street but know that it's important to the proper functioning of the world economy. Maybe you don't really understand Wall Street, and phrases such as credit default swap make your eyes glaze over. Maybe you are utterly confused by the fact that after attacking Wall Street mercilessly during his campaign, Donald Trump has surrounded himself with Wall Street veterans. But if you like your smartphone or your widescreen TV, your car or your morning bacon, your pension or your 401(k), then - whether you know it or not - you are a fan of Wall Street.
William D. Cohan is no knee-jerk advocate for Wall Street and the big banks. He's one of America's most respected financial journalists and the progressive best-selling author of House of Cards. He has long been critical of the bad behavior that plagued much of Wall Street in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, and because he spent 17 years as an investment banker on Wall Street, he is an expert on its inner workings as well.
But in recent years he's become alarmed by the cheap shots and ceaseless vitriol directed at Wall Street's bankers, traders, and executives - the people whose job it is to provide capital to those who need it, the grease that keeps our economy humming. In this brisk, no-nonsense narrative, Cohan reminds us of the good these institutions do - and the dire consequences for us all if the essential role they play in making our lives better is carelessly curtailed.
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Irresponsible, corrupt, and confused book
- De Thomas en 12-22-14
De: Alan S. Blinder
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The Ascent of Money
- A Financial History of the World
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress.
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A mostly successful and interesting history
- De A reader en 02-24-09
De: Niall Ferguson
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Fool's Gold
- De: Gillian Tett
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Gillian Tett brings to life in gripping detail how the Morgan team's bold ideas for a whole new kind of financial alchemy helped to ignite a revolution in banking, and how that revolution escalated wildly out of control. The deeply reported and lively narrative takes readers behind the scenes, to the inner sanctums of elite finance and to the secretive reaches of what came to be known as the "shadow banking" world.
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Outstanding narrative about the financial crisis
- De D. Littman en 07-17-09
De: Gillian Tett
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A History of the United States in Five Crashes
- Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
- De: Scott Nations
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century, revealing how they have defined the nation today.
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A solid telling of crucial history
- De Philo en 06-17-17
De: Scott Nations
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Bought and Paid For
- The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street
- De: Charles Gasparino
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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According to business reporter Charles Gasparino, President Obama is faking his outrage at Wall Street, and his calls for new policies to rein in banks that are "too big to fail" are just pabulum. In reality, Obama has climbed into bed with Wall Street CEOs, giving them what they want so they will support his liberal, big-government agenda.
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Revealing and Convincing
- De Walter en 10-24-11
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Reckless Endangerment
- How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
- De: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.
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Required reading
- De David en 10-24-11
De: Gretchen Morgenson, y otros
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The Great American Stick Up
- Greedy Bankers and the Politicians Who Love Them
- De: Robert Scheer
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story - the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms - Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal.
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A great telling of an unfortunate part of history
- De Trace en 10-27-20
De: Robert Scheer
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Naked Money
- A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
- De: Charles Wheelan
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
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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.
- De Thirsty Mind en 11-10-18
De: Charles Wheelan
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How the Other Half Banks
- Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
- De: Mehrsa Baradaran
- Narrado por: Priya Ayyar
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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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
- De Darwin8u en 09-13-16
De: Mehrsa Baradaran
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King of Capital
- The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
- De: John E. Morris, David Carey
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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The financial establishment---banks and investment bankers, such as Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley---were the cowboys, recklessly assuming risks, leveraging up to astronomical levels, and driving the economy to the brink of disaster.
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Great Story Ruined by Monotone Reading
- De Marc en 04-23-13
De: John E. Morris, y otros
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More Money Than God
- Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
- De: Sebastian Mallaby
- Narrado por: Alan Nebelthau
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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The Paul Volker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington Post journalist Sebastian Mallaby has garnered New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book honors for his enthralling nonfiction. Bolstered by Mallaby’s unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007–2009.
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Valiant effort but lacking analytic horsepower...
- De ND en 01-10-11
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The Fine Print
- How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind
- De: David Cay Johnston
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for cheating the system at the expense of everyone else. Whether he's exposing unjust loopholes in the tax code that help the rich get richer or pointing out how powerful corporations pocket government subsidies at excessive taxpayer expense, Johnston is an eloquent town crier for justice and equality.
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A must listen if you love or hate Trump
- De Rob D en 04-19-17
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The Alchemists
- Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
- De: Neil Irwin
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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Neil Irwin’s The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars. The book begins in, of all places, Stockholm, Sweden, in the 17th century, where central banking had its rocky birth, and then progresses through a brisk but dazzling tutorial on how the central banker came to exert such vast influence over our world, from its troubled beginnings to the age of Greenspan, bringing the listener into the present with a marvelous handle on how these figures and institutions became what they are.
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Couldn't Listen to this narrator
- De Donald en 07-23-13
De: Neil Irwin
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When Genius Failed
- The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
- De: Roger Lowenstein
- Narrado por: Roger Lowenstein
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Roger Lowenstein, the bestselling author of Buffett, captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end. He explains not just how the fund made and lost its money, but what it was about the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the late-nineties culture of Wall Street that made it all possible.
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When Genius Failed
- De Sean en 12-17-08
De: Roger Lowenstein
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- Scott
- 05-05-17
Great Book!
Very informative history of Wall Street with an innovative solution on how to optimize the relationship between it and "Main Street" . As Mr. Cohan points out, whether one likes it or not Wall Street DOES matter!
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- Maine Dave
- 02-22-19
Repetition ad nauseum
The thesis of the book is interesting: the 2008 financial crisis was caused by investment bankers with the wrong incentives, and government action since then to prevent a repeat has been counter productive and wrong headed. Instead, IB executives must have more skin in their business dealings: to wit, their entire net worth must be on the line. This contrarian prescriptive needs to be fully fleshed out if it is to be seriously discussed and possibly adopted. Instead, the author keeps repeating his thesis, to the point where the bankers start appearing sympathetic.
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- Doug Sheridan
- 04-26-17
An Inch Deep and A Mile Wide
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Persons who feat that ultra-liberals might actually decide to do away with Wall Street altogether. Or persons who have no knowledge about what Wall Street does and why it might have some use.
What could William D. Cohan have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Not only this book very superficial, poorly researched and poorly argued, it's a mile wide and an inch deep. Much of the book makes the author seem like a mouthpiece for Wall Street, rather than an analyst of it. Basically, his contention is that the big banks should not be broken back into commercial and investment banks because customers use the banks currently... as if that were proof that we shouldn't tamper with them. He also argues that it would be complicated to disentangle commercial operations from investment banking. He hates the Volker Rule and much of Dodd-Frank. His entire solution is, unbelievably, to have the banks self-police themselves against taking large risks by tying their personal net worth to the performance of the banks. In other words, require them to lose their net worth if the banks go under. Good luck with that.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
Yes
What character would you cut from Why Wall Street Matters?
None. It is non-fiction.
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- Denny Rauen
- 03-07-17
Give me a break
Not worth the time to read it. Basically let you know bankers slip up once in a while it's human nature. The best thing to do is take it in the chin until the next time they slip up and then take it on the chin again and again and again. With stiff regulation we'll end up back in the dark ages with nothing....really?
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