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Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics
Written by William Bonner and Lila Rajiva
Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt
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Collectively, people think and act in ways that are different from how they think and act as individuals. Understanding these differences, says William (Bill) Bonner, a longtime maverick observer of the financial world and the vagaries of the investing public, is vital to preserving your wealth and personal dignity. From the witch hunts of the early modern world to the war on terror, from the dot-com mania to the real-estate bubble, people have always been caught up in frauds, conceits, and wild guesses - often with devastating results. Now Bonner and co-author Lila Rajiva show groupthink at work in an improbable array of instances throughout history and reveal why swimming against the current pays. They explain why people so often abandon good sense and good behavior to "follow the crowd" and show you how to avoid getting caught up in the public spectacles around you.
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."
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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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5soft as soft ice cream.book tackles too much. cute 1 liners and puns, but too many loopholes in arguments. (i.e. a man throwing him out of a lifeboat to save a woman is doing so because if he didnt, he could never made as being seen a coward. but no life = no mate).people are irrational. not a big surprise. irrationality is seen through bubbles. (not so revolutionary...).great leaders are typically of do-gooders who believe their individual actions can improve the world, though always they fail (cheers!).a good book filled with seemingly an irrational collection of concepts proving that people are irrational, individuals seek mates as the root of everything, ... etc. :(irrational crowd pop. non-fiction.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5What an embarrassment. I paid a dollar for this horrid shit. Don't let it happen to you!