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Title: Dumb Money

Subtitle: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation

Author: Daniel Gross

Narrator: Jesse Boggs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-09

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 107 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

In this up-to-the-minute account, Gross goes step by step through the timeline leading up to the October 2008 bail-out and explains what exactly happened. Using information and statistics only weeks old, he offers a thorough and enlightening analysis of where we all go from here.

Members Reviews:

A witty and fun analysis

I enjoyed this book because I found it exceptionally witty and funny, but to a laymen in financial sector, some of the concept such as hedge fund derrivitives and Credit Default Swaps can be confusing, but it's analysis is still wonderful and insightful, highly diggestible, entertaining and concise essay.

Deliciously sarcastic and deadpan!!!!!

This book is hilarious. Delicious sarcasm at well-deserved targets oozes from every (I would say page but it's an audiobook.) I have listened to several books on "Why did the financial meltdown happen?" and this is hands down the most entertaining. The only drawback is the narrator was kind of monotone and in my opinion didn't use the proper inflection to emphasize the right words and underscore the snark. I have heard the author of this book on podcasts, and wish the author had narrated the book himself. He would have known where to pause for just the right effect and what words to emphasize.

Informative

A good introduction. Being fairly ignorant of things financial I felt that there might be a lot of terms that would go over my head but the author keeps it pretty basic I suppose, given the number of books on the subject that there are other points of view but I didn't really feel that Mr. Gross was pointing out any one villain but rather a series a failures on the part of many.

Best Book on the cause of the Great Rescession

Any additional comments?

Dumb Money is the best book I have read about the last financial crisis. It explains in layman's terms how the events in the U.S. pushed the world economy to the brink of collapse and caused the Great Recesison. Daniel Gross sets forth a step-by-step analysis as to how lax mortgage lending practices in the U.S. mortgage industry, coupled with low interest rates, led to this calamity.

If you want to understand what caused our economy to malfunction and the roles played by home buyers, mortgage companies, rating agencies, government regulators, Wall Street, and Fannie Mae, Dumb Money is a good place to start.

Good Overview of the Mess that is Wall Street

Dan Gross does a good job of outlining what happened up to December 2008. Easy to Follow and really goes to show that we need more regulation in Wall Street. I would recommend.

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Title: $700 Billion Bailout

Subtitle: The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and What It Means to You

Author: Paul Muolo

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-08

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Here, Muolo offers an unbiased view on how Wall Street got mixed up in the world of mortgages, and unravels what was going on behindthe scenes in the housing and mortgage industry for much of the past decade.

In his analysis of the controversial Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Muolo explains in easy to understand language what the bailout bill means for individuals and answers such questions as:

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Title: 50 Great e-Businesses and the Minds Behind Them

Author: Emily Ross, Angus Holland

Narrator: Richard Aspel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-08

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 51 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Creating profitable businesses on the internet is no mean feat and, as anyone who has watched the rise of eBay or Amazon knows, the web has forever changed the way we do business. Now the best-selling authors of 100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them take a look at some of the smartest, most profitable internet businesses operating today, and reveal that whether big, small, local or on the other side of the planet, when it's web business, it's a small, fascinating world, with potentially limitless opportunities.

Members Reviews:

Must read for people starting an eBusiness

...and those who dream of it.

Great case studies. Good narration.

Very enjoyable (each and every hour).

Well, this is why they have the preview function.

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Well, the only issue I have with this book is the accent. I don't know if the reader is from the country the book was published in perhaps, and I realize there are probably plenty of foreign listeners. I've wasted many a credit on a book that was simply ruined for me with a British or Australian accent (these are my best guesses as to the origin of this accent, so please forgive me if I'm inaccurate, which is likely).

That said, there's nothing wrong with these accents. They simply do not work for me personally when it comes to listening to audio books. There are other characteristics I don't like in readers- for example, I don't really care for George Guidall, who is widely considered a great reader.

That said, I would simply say that for those who don't mind or rather enjoy a British or Australian accent, this would be a fine listen. It's just something that happens to distract me, and that's really not a reflection of the quality of the book or anyone involved with it; I can't stress that enough. I only wish I'd listen to the samples more often because it completely takes me out of my focus on the book.

What could Emily Ross and Angus Holland have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Well, personally for me, I would just rather have an American English reader.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The accent, and that's nobodies "fault", it's just something that I've never cared for when it comes to audio books.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment, again, because the accent makes it hard to get into the book.

Any additional comments?

No.

50 is too much

I usually make a point to finish what I started, including long and borring books. This is one of them. I love listening to stories of startup businesses, but 50 is too much. The information is very dated, I believe from 2007, and the internet world has changed so much since then. A lot of examples from Australia, which was interesting.

Some of the book was interesting, but 50 stories just became very repetitive very quickly. The information is out of date. I couldn't finished this one, I got about 4 hours into it, but thought about leaving it after 45 minutes.

Great Book

This book is great, it really motivates you if you are into creating your personal e-business.

Valuable for people doing Internet Business.

If you want to learn some great success practices for eBusiness and build confidence that you can be successful, this is a great book to get.

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Title: Click

Author: Bill Tancer

Narrator: Bill Tancer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-08

Publisher: Hyperion AudioBooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 42 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Tancer demonstrates how the Internet is changing the way we absorb information and how understanding that change can be used to our advantage in business and in life. Click analyzes the new generation of consumerism in a way no other book has before, showing how we use the Internet, and how those trends provide a wealth of market research nearly as vast as the Internet itself. After all, we are what we click.

Members Reviews:

What we do online reflects who we are

Bill Nancer uses composite search engine data to look at everything from our most private fears(a search engine doesn't judge) to understanding the prime selling season for prom gowns (January!) to predicting the newest social networking craze months before most of us have even heard of it.

The internet has changed the way we get informaiton, and the our search for information reveals much about our thoughts, feelings and ultimately behavior.

If you like puzzles, or are interested in why we do what we do, this book may fascinate you as it did me.

Click OFF - This Book is Aweful

Aweful! This audiobook is useless. He spends 20 minutes talking aout internet porn sites. There is absolutely zero useful information in this book! Click off this one and click on a different audio book. Try World Wive Wave instead! Do NOT buy this book!

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Title: Globality

Subtitle: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything

Author: Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, Arindam Bhattacharya, John Butman

Narrator: Christian Rummel

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-12-08

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Well, those kids from those far off lands have now grown up and are eager to claim the world as their turf.

Globalization is about Americans outsourcing product development and services to other countries. Globality is the next step, in which rapidly developing economies from around the world are now competing with us head to head. The authors present a strong case that the economic climate in which we have lived is going to change in unprecedented ways.

Over the past five years, Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, and Arindam Bhattacharya,, of the prestigious Boston Consulting Group, have completed an exhaustive study of more than 3,000 companies operating in the emerging market economies of China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Sirkin, Hemerling, and Bhattacharya believe that these companies, which seem obscure today, will be the GMs, Monsantos, Apples, Proctor and Gambles and Toyotas of the future.

Sooner than we think, we will either end up working for these foreign-based companies or, even worse, having to compete with them.Globality describes how these new companies have come to power, and how, in the West, we will have to step up our game if we are to compete with these new, lean, powerful businesses.

Members Reviews:

Good, not great

Good book. Concepts are there and the conclusions are interesting. But, the 1st half is a "world is flat" summary. It takes until hour 3 before the real ideas come to a fruition.

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Title: Saving the Corporate Soul (Live)

Author: David Batstone

Narrator: David Batstone

Format: Original Recording

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-06

Publisher: Better Life Media, Inc.

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

It may have begun with regulation, but companies are beginning to see that ethics and transparency create real value; that purpose and passion can be as important as profit. For companies, this is a chance to literally "do well by doing good". For individuals, it is an opportunity to act on beliefs and help change the world. In this live presentation, David Batstone, the author of Saving the Corporate Soul, talks about:

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Title: Shopportunity!

Subtitle: How to Be a Retail Revolutionary

Author: Kate Newlin

Narrator: Kimberly Schraf

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-06

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

In Shopportunity!, highly respected business strategist Kate Newlin provides an insider's view of how consumers' needs and wants are researched, identified, and responded to at the manufacturing and marketing level of companies, and then systematically ignored by those same manufacturers and their retailers when it comes time to bring brands to market. Indeed, she demonstrates how one generation of marketers has addicted three generations of consumers to the heroin of price promotion and what it means to our waistlines, credit ratings, and life experience. From Wal-Mart to Shop-Rite to CVS and Home Shopping Network, Newlin will reveal what the world's leading brands really know about us and how they ultimately sell the products we buy.

Drawing on powerful reporting and her three decades as an insider, Newlin traces the tragic arc of the great freefall between what consumers want of their brand choices, what brands are able to deliver, and the torture retailers put consumers through in order to acquire the transformational promise of the brands. Her critique culminates in a shopper's bill of rights that lays out 10 principles of consumer transformation that should liberate shoppers, as well as the manufacturers and channels that serve them, from the tyranny of the cheap.

Critic Reviews:

"Useful insights." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

This opportunity wasted

I was hoping that this book would be able to provide a different perspective on the state of business today. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with both the content and the narration, which was distracting. If you enjoy the voice from "Desperate Housewives" this narrator is a dead-ringer. Otherwise, it exacerbates the slow-moving pace of the book's content.

I almost always avoid an abridbed audiobook, but in this case, that would have made it a far more enjoyable listening experience. The concepts are very, very basic, which may very well be the point of the book, but the author does very little to delve any deeper into the subject matter than a cursory glance would afford. In the immortal and never-uttered words of Sherlock Holmes, it was all "Elementary, my Dear Watson."

Just in time!!!

Kate Newlin hit the nail on the head. Working in a service industry, it has become apparrent to me that the level of service and experience that is relayed to the customer has exceedingly diminished. This has led to business grabbing for the short straw, discounting the services and de-valuing their business all together. I was able to take alot of information from this book and communicate to colleagues and accounts that it is all about the experience, not the price tag. In fact, we all the deserve the best and there is a customer base out there willing to pay for it!

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Title: Audible Fast Company, August 2005

Author: Fast Company

Narrator: Fast Company

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-05

Publisher: Fast Company

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

In this month's cover story, we'll hear why the human resources department can often seem so inhuman. Then, a celebrated former-HR guru returns from his Mormon missionary work to form a business consulting company. Then, we'll hear about scent: the new branding frontier; as well as the art of work, and advice on how to build your strengths rather than fix your weakness.

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Title: The Best of HBR

Subtitle: Top-Line Growth (July 2004)

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: uncredited

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-04

Publisher: Harvard Business School Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

This special Best of the Harvard Business Review features four articles about top-line growth. They were compiled in the July/August 2004 double issue of the magazine. The first article, "Marketing Myopia", was written by Theodore Levitt in 1960. The second article, "The Middle Manager as Innovator", was written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter in 1982. Then, the third article, "Staple Yourself to an Order", was written by Benson Shapiro, Kasturi Rangan, and John Sviokla in 1992. The fourth and final article, "Value Innovation", by Chan Kim and Renie Mauborgne, first appeared in 1997.

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©2004 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved; (P)2004 Audible Inc.

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Title: Managing Change in Crisis

Author: Dr. Stephen R. Covey

Narrator: Dr. Stephen R. Covey

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-04

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Dr. Stephen R. Covey and associates of Franklin Covey Co. hope that by offering their unique expertise, time, and energy in this audiobook, that organizations will gain vital perspectives that will help them not only cope with the aftershocks of any crisis but also realign business strategies for economic recovery. It is their hope too that the insightful and empowering words of Dr. Covey will help individuals realign their personal lives around what really matters most.

Members Reviews:

Abridged 7 Habits Immediately Post 9/11

This audiobook is a basic rehash of the 7 habits of highly effective people, set in the aftermath of 9/11. The material is OK, and if you are a Covey fan, the audiobook might be somewhat interesting. Having said that, it isn't a great stand alone work, and really could use more meat and less Covey advertising.