
Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets
Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics
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Erik Synnestvedt
If an investor merely recognizes the way mob sentiment works, he is far ahead of others. Ordinary people turn billions of dollars worth of their hard-earned money over to brokers and fund managers daily, believing that these strangers will give them back even more. Why?
This audiobook demonstrates that investors are in fact caught between a rock and a soft place - between the private world they can understand and master and the misleading public spectacle of the markets. "The farther away you get from your investments, and the less you suffer the consequences if they go bad, the worse your performance will be," say Bonner and Rajiva. "That's why 'collective' investments like index-linked funds, mutual funds, hedge funds, insurance funds, and pension funds are usually so bad. The investors are too far from the facts, and the managers are too far from the consequences."
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"I laughed aloud, I learned, and I was even offended. Behind the crafty writing, the authors share the deeper secrets of investing and push us to question what we believe. 'Think for yourself!' this book screams." (Steve Sjuggerud, editor, True Wealth investment newsletter)
Entertaining, useful but unfocused
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The only thing that could have made it even better would be the argument from morality:violence is immoral and therefor the state is immoral. You can't ask for minimum wages enforced with state violence, without getting the paper money financed war racket along with it. It always was a package deal and always will be. Violence becomes violence
super
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Mind Opening!
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Crowd control
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Great, Witty, Thought Provoking Audio
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What did you love best about Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets?
The extremely broad coverage that describes how mobs behave, how messiahs are mindlessly followed, and how all this relates to the markets. I especially loved the use of simile and metaphor permeating the book. I had to laugh at the constructs and comparisons. They help drive home the message of the book with humor.Who was your favorite character and why?
Hands down it is the anti-hero Greenspan. He is shown to be a hypocrite and ambitious toady to the administrations he served.Have you listened to any of Erik Synnestvedt’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
He is a great reader. His voice and tone and pace keep the book lively and never boring.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, but it was a long haul. It is in three parts.Any additional comments?
I have listened to this book several times and especially Part 3, which I keep repeating in order to better understand all the nuances of what has been done to our economy and our nation.Well read and fascinating
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I STRUGGLED TO THE FINISH
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Excellent Book
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The most myopic and deluded book of the year
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This book is like meeting someone at a dinner party who goes on and on about how they see the world, and you don't know how to stop them. Worst of all, you know what they are saying isn't quite right, or is quite trite.
The basic point of the book is a good one, however, you can get all you need by reading the summary.
Worst audible book yet
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