The Capitalist Code

It Can Save Your Life and Make You Very Rich

By: Ben Stein

Narrated by: Blake Swihart

Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

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 to give both workers and savers a route to financial comfort and security.

That's what this book is all about: how being smart about consistent, conservative investment in a diversified portfolio of stocks can harness the incredible power of the US economy, building financial security for any American that decides to participate.

©2017 Ben Stein (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Friendly bias toward Ben Stein

This book confirms my life now from the things my dad taught me well before I could imagine them. Thanks dad, it makes me wonder how he learned them well enough to teach me before I could see my future. Assuming our world trajectory follows some reasonable path. Good luck folks. We do get to punctuate a bit of the future thru wisdom shared.

Good read and a must to share

I found this book very informative and shared it with my teenagers and wife. These lessons are best learned at a young age but are always relevant.

underwhelming narration

very short for the price, lackluster narration - even for a book on economy. I would've rather heard ben stein narrate if I wanted a monotone performance. the book - short on points, not very in depth, geared toward laymen. overall informative but left me wanting more.

Good Stuff

Ben Stein is not only humorous, but incredibly insightful. Much of the book is fairly simplistic but overlooked by many.

A Must Read!!!

Knowing is more than half the battle. Listen to this audio book more than once. It's a must.

Financial advice

Extremely Ego centered autor, in such a short audiobook, I know many others who concentrate on issues which are more important not on them self

Not great but helpful

This book seems to be a primer to get you interested in trading stocks. As with many of these sorts of books it could have been summed up nicely in a 3 page paper. The book is well written and entertaining.

My biggest gripe is that the narrator is frankly terrible. Slow speaking with long pauses made the book feel poorly written and understanding the content difficult. Listening at 1.25 speed just made it worse.

Bah

All over the place, with a overly simple message. Lots of definitions-out of context. Didn’t do a great job of selling capitalism anyway. Really no insight, that was the problem. This guy is just smart enough to know that writing a book is a zero downside action, knowing it will sell no matter the quality for various reasons.

not a great book for the information age

since 1989 when the Berlin wall fell the world has switched from the industrial age to the information age. this book is for yping Savers that want to save their way to wealth through high education, years of hard work and government subsidiaries. just not a good book for today.