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Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
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If you've ever bought a personal finance book, watched a TV show about stock picking, listened to a radio show about getting out of debt, or attended a seminar to help you plan for your retirement, you've probably heard some version of these quotes:
"What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases, it is simply a lack of belief." (Suze Orman, The Courage to Be Rich)
"Are you latte-ing away your financial future?" (David Bach, Smart Women Finish Rich)
"I know you're capable of picking winning stocks and holding on to them." (Jim Cramer, Mad Money)
They're common refrains among personal finance gurus. There's just one problem: Those and many similar statements are false. For the past few decades, Americans have spent billions of dollars on personal finance products. As salaries have stagnated and companies have cut back on benefits, we've taken matters into our own hands, embracing the can-do attitude that if we're smart enough, we can overcome even daunting financial obstacles. But that's not true.
In this meticulously reported and shocking audiobook, journalist and former financial columnist Helaine Olen goes behind the curtain of the personal finance industry to expose the myths, contradictions, and outright lies it has perpetuated. She shows how an industry that started as a response to the Great Depression morphed into a behemoth that thrives by selling us products and services that offer little if any help. Olen calls out some of the biggest names in the business, revealing how even the most respected gurus have engaged in dubious, even deceitful, practices - from accepting payments from banks and corporations in exchange for promoting certain products to blaming the victims of economic catastrophe for their own financial misfortune.
Pound Foolish also disproves many myths about spending and saving. Weaving together original reporting, interviews with experts, and studies from disciplines ranging from behavioral economics to retirement planning, Pound Foolish is a compassionate and compelling audibook that will change the way we think and talk about our money.
©2012 Helaine Olen (P)2013 Gildan Media LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Everyone knows that saving for your retirement is important. Yet only half of all eligible Americans contribute to a retirement plan. That’s because all plans - including the 401(k), 403(b), 457, and even the IRA - are complicated, confusing, and costly. New York Times best-selling author and acclaimed financial advisor Ric Edelman has counseled thousands of savers and retirees and has accumulated his advice in this audiobook.
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some very great info but be careful
- De Linda Mueller en 11-30-18
De: Ric Edelman
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Heads I Win, Tails I Win
- Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor
- De: Spencer Jakab
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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According to Wall Street Journal investing columnist Spencer Jakab, most of us have no idea how much money we're leaving on the table - or that the average saver doesn't come anywhere close to earning the "average" returns touted in those glossy brochures. We're handicapped not only by psychological biases and a fear of missing out but by an industry with multimillion-dollar marketing budgets and an eye on its own bottom line, not yours.
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Got my head screwed on straight
- De Rob Barry en 12-20-18
De: Spencer Jakab
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Phishing for Phools
- The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
- De: George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
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Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception.
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Useful for a certain audience, but ...
- De Philo en 02-29-16
De: George A. Akerlof, y otros
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Broke Millennial Talks Money
- Scripts, Stories, and Advice to Navigate Awkward Financial Conversations
- De: Erin Lowry
- Narrado por: Erin Lowry
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Let's face it—talking about money is always awkward. In this user-friendly and approachable guide, finance writer Erin Lowry helps take the stress out of these tricky conversations. Lowry arms you with all of the financial knowledge you'll need in order to get the most out of each interaction, whether that's with your friends, your spouse, your employer, or your mom.
De: Erin Lowry
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You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think
- De: Wes Moss
- Narrado por: Wes Moss, Scott Merriman
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After conducting an intensive study of happy retirees to learn the financial practices they hold in common, Moss discovered that it doesn't take financial genius, millions of dollars, or sophisticated investment skills to ensure a safe, solid retirement. All it takes is five best practices.
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graphs/diagrams
- De Amazon Customer en 05-15-18
De: Wes Moss
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Financial Peace Revisited
- New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families
- De: Dave Ramsey
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan, CJ Critt
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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Dave Ramsey's New York Times best-selling guide to better living through financial security, now completely revised and updated.
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Surprisingly disappointing - sorry dave
- De Sally en 12-06-12
De: Dave Ramsey
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The Capitalist Code
- It Can Save Your Life and Make You Very Rich
- De: Ben Stein
- Narrado por: Blake Swihart
- Duración: 2 h y 12 m
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Most Americans have not inherited wealth or a successful business that can set them up for life. That means most Americans are destined to live with financial worries and concerns for the rest of their lives, right? Wrong! With his entertaining and informative style, New York Times best-selling author, actor, and financial pundit Ben Stein refutes the current notion that the corporate system is rigged against ordinary citizens and explains how corporate stock ownership is the best system ever devised.
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underwhelming narration
- De Brandon Crow en 10-27-17
De: Ben Stein
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The Lost Bank
- The Story of Washington Mutual - The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
- De: Kirsten Grind
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and mismanagement, and how the entire financial industry - and even the entire country - lost its way as well. Kirsten Grind’s The Lost Bank is a magisterial and gripping account of these events.
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Sad and Angry by Turn
- De Johnnie Walker en 07-24-12
De: Kirsten Grind
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Too Good to Be True
- The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
- De: Erin Arvedlund
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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Erin Arvedlund, the financial reporter who questioned the amazing returns of Bernie Madoff's hedge funds way back in 2001, traces the life of the infamous swindler and addresses the tough questions surrounding the collapse of his Ponzi scheme.
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Doesn't add much more that a lot of details.
- De Robert en 11-07-10
De: Erin Arvedlund
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Debt-Free U
- How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching off My Parents
- De: Zac Bissonnette, Andrew Tobias
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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These days, most people assume you need to pay a boatload of money for a quality college education. As a result, students and their parents are willing to go into years of debt and potentially sabotage their financial futures just to get a fancy name on a diploma. But Zac Bissonnette is walking proof that the assumption is not only false, but dangerous.
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Too long winded
- De Raquel en 08-06-13
De: Zac Bissonnette, y otros
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The Behavior Gap
- Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money
- De: Carl Richards
- Narrado por: Carl Richards
- Duración: 3 h y 32 m
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Why do we lose money? It's easy to blame the economy or the financial markets - but the real trouble lies in the decisions we make. As a financial planner, Carl Richards grew frustrated watching people he cared about make the same mistakes over and over. They were letting emotion get in the way of smart financial decisions. He named this phenomenon - the distance between what we should do and what we actually do - "the behavior gap". He found that once people understood it, they started doing much better.
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Average across the board
- De michael en 01-23-18
De: Carl Richards
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The Greatest Trade Ever
- The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
- De: Gregory Zuckerman
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
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In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected - that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing. He had spent a career as an also-ran on Wall Street. But Paulson was convinced this was his chance to make his mark. He just wasn't sure how to do it. Colleagues at investment banks scoffed at him and investors dismissed him.
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Better Books Now Available
- De David en 05-02-11
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The Money Culture
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Alexander Cendese
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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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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Reckless Endangerment
- How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
- De: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
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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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- 12-15-13
One of the best books on personal finance
For every 10 crappy Audible books, you get one like this: concise, informative, and well narrated. We all like to believe that we are in control, that when things go well financially it's because of our great insight and skill, and tha when things go bad for others, it's because of their greed and stupidity. This book clearly lays out the other forces at work: brokers, salesmen, Wall Street and other conmen successfully getting their hands into our pockets while having you take the blame when things inevitably go bad -- just whent they run away with your cash. The conclusion of the book is how the only remedy for our economic woes is to break with the current wage stagnation, and true political change.
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- DUSTIN SMITH
- 12-05-13
Good Review of the Personal Finance Idustry
What made the experience of listening to Pound Foolish the most enjoyable?
In general, the book seemed to be well written and document the pit falls of the personal finance industry well. In general I liked the criticisms of the financial gurus and have had similar feelings in my subconscious that she gelled into words.
Who was your favorite character and why?
I am conservative and bought this book because of a Piece that Helaine wrote on Dave Ramsey in Pacific Standard that I thought was BS, but needed to know more about her thought process to dismiss it. Personally, I think that he has done a great job of getting a bunch of people to pay attention to their situation and take steps to make it better. Her work in this book seemed to acknowledge that people can make choices to better and worse their individual situations, but most gurus miss the fact that a minimum wage worker is not going to make it no matter how well they budget.
I am glad that I took the time to listen to the book. While I don't agree with everything she stated, I do feel that I have learned some interesting things specifically about the mutual fund industry that is helpful.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Lyn Landon?
Anyone who knew how to pronounce Suze Orman ... Being as it is critical of Suze's work, I feel that the publisher owes Suze the decency of pronouncing her name correctly in the audio.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The linking of the financial education movement to financial institutions was brilliant. I have never thought to think that why are the same people that are lobbying congress to make our financial future murky and impossible to understand the same ones that say financial literacy will save the day...
As she said if they believe that the solution to the financial problem is for consumers to understand what they are doing, then the most obvious thing to do is to write simple contracts and sales material that disclose the fees and risks in common English.
Any additional comments?
I hated the diatribe on women investors and wonder if she could have put that part in a separate book for readers that are interested in that stuff.
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- Nicholas
- 08-11-13
The Mispronunciations Are Indeed Distracting
This book was reasonably entertaining. I agree, however, that the narrator did a poor job. An entire chapter of the book is devoted to Suze Orman, yet the narrator continually mispronounces the woman's name as "Sooze" rather than "Susie." The chapter in question is 45 minutes long, so for me the error was maddening.
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- Tango Firefly
- 09-08-17
Great book. Amateur performance.
Excellent content. Excellent book. However, there is no excuse for mispronouncing the names of famous people. It takes 30 seconds to look it up. I cringed every time she mispronounced "Suze Orman" and "Bernie Madoff".
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- 09-10-14
Narrator needs training!
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The book itself is interesting, although the conclusion (in the final "what is to be done?" chapter) is pretty lame. Talking alone won't do nearly enough to solve the real problems that the author examines.
How could the performance have been better?
The performer was really pretty inept. She mispronounced a number of words--not just the French words to which the author seems unfortunately overly fond, but basic English words, such as "reputable." Often, too, the performer gets the stress on the wrong syllable. Very annoying.
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- Kazuhiko
- 07-01-14
My suspicion about the industry confirmed
I often smelled dishonesty in the personal finance industry ads. This book tells me that the reality is much worse than I had imagined. The author's arguments seem backed by well-researched information and credible, and I could tell that she is honest, as she herself was once a financial columnist. I wished that she could provide some concrete recommendations to fix the problem, but pointing out all the problems is a very good start. The narrator could have done better though - she did not sound she had rehearsed at all. But overall, I highly recommend this book.
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- Sal
- 05-01-17
Everything About Money - No Bull
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes. It dispells all the garbage that tv and radio personalities spew and puts things in perspective in a no nonsense way.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The author - She really drove home the value of money and understanding how it works and how it fails.
What about Lyn Landon’s performance did you like?
She was not dramatic but to the point. Pleasant to listen to. Held my attention at all times. Not an easy thing to do.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes. It did both.
Any additional comments?
If you want to know where and how to get your advice about money this is a must. She tears down some of the best known personalities on the subject but in a polished way. I like many of them and will continue to watch and listen. However the book is an eye opener and I will be watching and listening with keener sense. I will read this book again. Very thought provoking.
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- M. Czaicki
- 06-27-17
Good "read" but lacks ending
What did you love best about Pound Foolish?
Great down to earth review of various "investments". The author does approach this from the right angle giving a full in depth history of various techniques and personal fiance personas.
Any additional comments?
The author does proceed to critique pretty much all of the known investment methods including the individuals that are peddling them however does not offer any alternatives that would in her eyes be more viable. As a result the book lacks a proper closure and ends with pretty much a negative review of most widely available ways to invest and save. It leaves the reader empty handed after after they listened how they are a sucker for investing in anything listed. But don't worry, just go out and buy another "latte" as the world is against you anyway and you will not be able to build wealth anyway.
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- Wade K
- 09-05-19
Some decent advice, but mostly just a smear job.
Picked up a couple small nuggets to think about, but mainly was just a hit job on the financial industry as a whole.
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- @ianrandmckenzie
- 05-23-20
Important message, unfortunate delivery
One by one, Helaine Olen picks apart the hypocrisy, exploitation, and holier-than-thou sham of the personal finance industry. I found this book incredibly eye-opening and well written. At times, the things I learned made me feel sick. This book's message is something that should be spread far and wide.
Unfortunately, this book's reach is, after reading several reviews, being limited by the narrator. The narrator was not a professional, simply put. It was an amateur performance. The only upside I got from it was that if I ever one day decide to go into voice work, I will refer to this book to look for what *not* to do. It felt like the entire time she was swallowing her words, poorly researched pronunciation of names, the unusual pronunciation of English words (succinct = sucksinct?), and an overall tone of voice that, to me, sounded like a high school English student's turn to read the book out loud.
Helaine, if you're reading this, PLEASE have your audiobook re-recorded by a professional.
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