Bonner / Rajiva Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets

Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-17734-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Agora Series

An insightful look at how to succeed by going against thecrowd
Collectively, people think and act in ways that are differentfrom how they think and act as individuals. Understanding thesedifferences, says William (Bill) Bonner-a longtime maverickobserver of the financial world and the vagaries of the investingpublic-is vital to preserving your wealth and personal dignity.From the witch-hunts of the early modern world to the war onterror, from dot-com mania to the real estate bubble, people havealways been caught up in frauds, conceits, and wild guesses-oftenwith devastating results. In Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets,Bonner and coauthor Lila Rajiva show groupthink at work in animprobable array of instances throughout history and reveal whyswimming against the current pays.
* Shares the deeper secrets of investing and pushes you toquestion what this means for your financial well-being
* Explains why people so often abandon good sense and goodbehavior to "follow the crowd"
* Offers concrete advice on how you can avoid the "publicspectacle" of modern finance
The authors' cautionary tale of bubble economies reveals how thegush of credit let loose by Alan Greenspan has wreaked havoc on ourlives-but their thoughtful and always entertaining approach alsooffers some sound investing principles for avoiding the pitfalls ofthe public spectacle, thinking for yourself, and protecting yourmoney, your sanity, and your soul.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bonner, William

Rajiva, Lila

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: A Critique of Impure Reason.
Chapter 1. Do-Gooders Gone Bad.
Chapter 2. Love in the Time of Viagra.
Chapter 3. The Transit of Venus.
Part Two: Witch Hunts and War Drums.
Chapter 4. The Devil Made Them Do It.
Chapter 5. Words of War.
Part Three: Militant Messiahs.
Chapter 6. War and Remembrance.
Chapter 7. Empire of Delusion.
Chapter 8. Heroes of the Revolution.
Part Four: Flattening the Globe.
Chapter 9. The Number Game.
Chapter 10. The Flat Earth Society.
Chapter 11. What the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo Didn't Know.
Part Five: The Bubble Kings.
Chapter 12. Fin de Bubble.
Chapter 13. The Million-Dollar Trailer.
Chapter 14. Central Bank Bamboozle.
Chapter 15. The Mother of the Mother of All Bubbles.
Part Six: Far From the Madding Mob.
Chapter 16. How Not to Be Chumped by Wall Street.
Chapter 17. The Dupe of Hearts.
Notes.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

William (Bill) Bonner is President and CEO of AgoraFinancial, one of the world's largest financial newslettercompanies (www.agorafinancial.com). He is the creator of the DailyReckoning, a contrarian financial newsletter(www.dailyreckoning.com). Bonner is also the author, with AddisonWiggin, of the international bestsellers Financial ReckoningDay and Empire of Debt.
Lila Rajiva is a political journalist and the author ofThe Language of Empire, a groundbreaking study of the mediacoverage of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. She is a contributor toAgora Financial (www.agorafinancial.com) and the creator of theblog, The Mind-Body Politic(www.lilarajiva.wordpress.com).