
Brazillionaires
Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country
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For listeners of Michael Lewis comes an engrossing tale of a country's spectacular rise and fall, intertwined with the story of Brazil's wealthiest citizen, Eike Batista - a universal story of hubris and tragedy that uncovers the deeper meaning of this era of billionaires.
When Bloomberg News invited the young American journalist Alex Cuadros to report on Brazil's emerging class of billionaires at the height of the historic Brazilian boom, he was poised to cover two of the biggest business stories of our time: how the giants of the developing world were triumphantly taking their place at the center of global capitalism and how wealth inequality was changing societies everywhere. The billionaires of Brazil and their massive fortunes resided at the very top of their country's economic pyramid, and whether they quietly accumulated exceptional power or extravagantly displayed their decadence, they formed a potent microcosm of the world's richest .001 percent.
Eike Batista, a flamboyant and charismatic evangelist for the country's new gospel of wealth, epitomized much of this rarefied sphere: In 2012 Batista ranked as the eighth-richest person in the world, was famous for his marriage to a beauty queen, and was a fixture in the Brazilian press. His constantly repeated ambition was to become the world's richest man and to bring Brazil along with him to the top.
But by 2015 Batista was bankrupt; his son, Thor, had been indicted for manslaughter; and Brazil - its president facing impeachment, its provinces combating an epidemic, and its business and political class torn apart by scandal - had become a cautionary tale of a country run aground by its elites.
Over the four years Cuadros was on the billionaire beat, he reported on media moguls and televangelists, energy barons and shadowy figures from the years of military dictatorship, soy barons who lived on the outskirts of the Amazon and new-economy billionaires spinning money from speculation. He learned just how deeply they all reached into Brazilian life. They held sway over the economy, government, media, and stewardship of the environment; they determined the spiritual fates and populated the imaginations of their countrymen. Cuadros' zealous reporting takes us from penthouses to courtrooms, from favelas to extravagant art fairs, from scenes of unimaginable wealth to desperate, massive street protests. Within a business narrative that deftly explains and dramatizes the volatility of the global economy, Cuadros offers us literary journalism with a grand sweep.
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The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ’29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment banker and later financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fueled the decade. In these trenchant, often hilarious true tales we meet the colorful movers and shakers who commanded the headlines and rewrote the rules.
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Not the normal great Michael Lewis
- De Me en 05-12-12
De: Michael Lewis
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The Big Rich
- The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
- De: Bryan Burrough
- Narrado por: James Jenner
- Duración: 22 h y 11 m
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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough reveals how four Texas oil tycoons transformed America. Rising from humble beginnings through hard work and shrewd dealings, they shifted the balance of power in American politics. While hobnobbing with movie stars and presidents, the Big Rich also created the legend of the swaggering Texas oilman with island hideaways and sprawling ranches.
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Big, Sordid, Fascinating, PoliticallyCorrect
- De Darkcoffee en 11-09-09
De: Bryan Burrough
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The Asylum
- The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market
- De: Leah McGrath Goodman
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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They were a band of outsiders unable to get jobs with New York's gilded financial establishment. They would go on to corner the world's multitrillion-dollar oil market, reaping unimaginable riches while bringing the economy to its knees. Meet the self-anointed kings of the New York Mercantile Exchange. In some ways, they are everything you would expect them to be: a secretive, members-only club of men and women who live lavish lifestyles; cavort with politicians, strippers, and celebrities; and blissfully jacked up oil prices to nearly $150 a barrel while profiting off the misery of the working class.
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A far better book than its come-on implies
- De Philo en 01-05-14
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The Zeroes
- My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane
- De: Randall Lane
- Narrado por: Randall Lane
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir about the excesses and bad behavior of an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self-contained world.
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A very entertaining tale
- De andy en 11-03-13
De: Randall Lane
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The Billionaires Club
- De: James Montague
- Narrado por: Damian Lynch
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game? In The Billionaires Club James Montague delves deeper than anyone else has dared, to tell this story for the first time.
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So boring! There is no cohesive story
- De Patrick Johnson en 02-15-22
De: James Montague
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Glass House
- The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
- De: Brian Alexander
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st century, and wrecked the company.
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What really happened to the American Dream?
- De Bill en 05-10-17
De: Brian Alexander
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Richistan
- A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
- De: Robert Frank
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through Richistan entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever. Richistanis have 400-foot-yachts, 30,000-square-foot homes, house staffs of more than 100, and their own "arborists". They're also different from Old Money, and have torn down blue-blood institutions to build their own shining empire.
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Ho Hum....being rich is work!
- De Scarlett en 06-16-07
De: Robert Frank
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New World Coming
- The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
- De: Nathan Miller
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
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Jazz. Bootleggers. Flappers. Talkies. Model T Fords. Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. The 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime.
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My High School History Class Never Told
- De Charles Stembridge en 06-29-04
De: Nathan Miller
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- De: Chad Broughton
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
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A Story I thought I Knew
- De Meek84 en 07-08-18
De: Chad Broughton
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Mike Bloomberg
- Money, Power, Politics
- De: Joyce Purnick
- Narrado por: Mark Moseley
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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Michael Bloomberg is not only New York City's 108th mayor; he is a business genius and self-made billionaire. He has run the toughest city in America with an independence and show of ego that first brought him great success and eventually threatened it. Yet while Bloomberg is internationally known and admired, few people know the man behind the carefully crafted public persona.
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Not the most captivating, but a decent summary
- De liz w en 03-06-17
De: Joyce Purnick
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The Frackers
- The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
- De: Gregory Zuckerman
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the world wrong. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep decline and natural gas was hard to find. The Iraq War threatened the nation’s already tenuous relations with the Middle East. China was rapidly industrializing and competing for resources.
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Balanced approach on controversial topic
- De Chris en 01-02-14
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The King of Content
- Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire
- De: Keach Hagey
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Sumner Murray Redstone, once feared as the “mad genius” of media who would dump his CEOs for mere wobbles in his companies’ stock price, had built one of the world’s greatest media empires through a series of audacious takeovers constructed to ensure that he always maintained control. Today he controls 80 percent of the voting shares of both Viacom and CBS, meaning that on a whim he could replace the entire boards of two public companies with a combined value of $40 billion.
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Feels biased. Well researched, but not engaging.
- De Anonymous User en 04-03-19
De: Keach Hagey
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Bending Adversity
- Japan and the Art of Survival
- De: David Pilling
- Narrado por: Tim Andes Pabon
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their voices, Pilling captures the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Japan.
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Good book, but terribly read
- De Kallan Resnick en 10-24-14
De: David Pilling
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Since Yesterday
- The 1930s in America
- De: Frederick Lewis Allen
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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In this panorama, subtitled The 1930s in America, Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monoliths of the era. Whether discussing the varieties of bathtub gin or elucidating Keynesian economics, Allen displays, in the words of Edward Weeks of The Atlantic, "a talent for terse and telling resume which is the envy of any historian."
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A Solid View of 1930s America
- De Jason Hutchens en 09-28-16
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- 07-21-16
A wonderfully brilliant roller coaster detailing Brazil's ultra super rich
Alex Cuadros has successfully written and narrated such an epic tale that could only be the work of non-fiction. Brazillionaires is gripping from start to finish. Part exposé, part biography, you get a glimpse into the world of Brazil's biggest movers and shakers. In doing so, you get a bit of a birds eye view on society and the mechanics that drive progress in a rapidly developing country. Although the focus is on Brazil's billionaires, in the world of the super elite, you get a lot of connections to outside business empires and politics. You'll end up learning a lot about Brazil, wealth, entrepreneurship, and much more, all wrapped up in a story wild enough to rival "The Wolf of Wall Street".
Overall this is a brilliantly written book. The kind that is hard to put down (or press pause). That it is so well narrated by the author himself is just as impressive. Alex Cuadros absolutely nailed it! And I believe that this book has the potential to do for Alex what "Kitchen Confidential" has done for Anthony Bourdain.
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- JOSEPH
- 09-11-20
Great investigative reporting!
I really appreciated all the great investigative reporting. The author puts you as if you were in the world of these billionaires. Just insane to imagine. Really good book!
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- Thais
- 08-18-16
Well done Alex!
Would you listen to Brazillionaires again? Why?
I will listen to it again. Because it is very well done.
What does Alex Cuadros bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He wraps up very efficiently complicated data. The book is so easy to follow
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As Brazilian myself I have to say that is a very good summary of the very blurred recent Brazilian history. The information available to Brazilian is very scattered and biased. I hope this can get published in Portuguese.
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- Luiz Rocha
- 12-30-20
Good picture of post-dictatorship Brazil
I lived thru all Alex describes in his book, but as a citizen here, sometimes the full picture is just not clear.
It's good to see all the most recent events from a vantage point of someone close to the financial/political scene but not biased by nationality.
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- Rafael Polidoro
- 09-28-20
fantastic reading
it is really well written and describes Brazil better than I, Brazilian, could. A must read
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- J. M. Batista
- 08-06-16
Good work, others needed
An interesting and revealing account. Brazil would benefit with more books like this one.
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- Lane
- 07-18-16
A Michael Lewis style take on Brazil
If you are looking for an explanation of what happened to Brazil's economy on the characters involved in it then this is your book! It's framed around the rise and fall of Eike but gives a lot of perspective both on the country and the ultra rich class.
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- Carl Thompson
- 04-03-17
Worth every penny
Wonderful, fast-paced book with great flow. Informative and entertaining. Alex Cuadros needs to write more books. I'll buy.
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- Juan
- 08-31-16
Great journalism but full of clichés
I really liked the storyline and the findings. I also feel that the author should refrain from doing so many judgements on economic theory and concentrate more on the numbers and stats.
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