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In This Economy?
- How Money & Markets Really Work
- Narrated by: Kyla Scanlon, Morgan Housel
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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“Few people can communicate how the economy actually works better than Kyla Scanlon.”—Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money
An illustrated guide to the mad math and terrible terminology of economics, from one of the internet’s favorite financial educators
Is our national debt really a threat? What is a “mild” recession, exactly? If you’re worried about your bank account balance, job security, or mortgage rate, what data should you be keeping tabs on?
For anyone trying to make sense of disorienting headlines, there’s no better interpreter than Kyla Scanlon. Through her trademark blend of witty illustrations, creative analogies, and insights from behavioral economics, literature, and philosophy, Scanlon breaks down everything you need to know about how money and markets really work. This indispensable handbook reveals the hidden forces driving key economic outcomes, the most common myths to steer clear of, and the dusty, outdated assumptions that constrain our political imagination, offering a bold new path to building a prosperous society that works for everyone.
This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF with graphs and illustrations from the book.
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Critic reviews
“Kyla’s singular style is approachable, witty, and endlessly informative, helping readers decipher everything from the labor force to housing to what Jay Powell’s thinking.”—Kai Ryssdal, host of NPR’s Marketplace
“Kyla is a master at explaining even the most complex and arcane subjects with verve, wit and creativity—whether it’s the mechanics of the US debt ceiling, the ‘vibecession’ or the nuances of meme investing. We’re lucky we have Kyla around to show us how it all works.”—Tracy Alloway, Bloomberg journalist and co-host of the Odd Lots podcast
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- Narrated by: Ashley Goodall
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Once, the job of leaders was to identify problems and fix them, while leaving nonproblems alone. Today, the notion that the new way is always better than the old way—and that if you aren’t disrupting everything, you are losing—has come to constitute a new orthodoxy of business thinking. Whether it’s a merger or re-org or a new office layout, change has become the ultimate easy button for leaders, who pursue it with abandon, unleashing a torrent of disruption on employees. The result is life in the blender: a perpetual state of upheaval, uncertainty, and unease.
By: Ashley Goodall
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Quality Investing
- Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term
- By: Lawrence A. Cunningham, Torkell T. Eide, Patrick Hargreaves
- Narrated by: Kenneth Elliott
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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The concept of quality is familiar. People make judgments about it every day. Yet articulating a clear definition of quality is challenging. The best companies often appear to be characterized by an ineffable something, much like that of people who seem graced by a lucky gene. For reasons that are not always evident, some do the right things with better results than average. They may not appear to be savvier acquirers, more adept marketers, or bolder pioneers, yet they integrate new businesses better, launch products more successfully, and open new markets with fewer mishaps.
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Annoyingly Useless Book
- By David Parker on 11-01-20
By: Lawrence A. Cunningham, and others
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Right Thing, Right Now
- Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.
- By: Ryan Holiday
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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For the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justice—or one’s commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. In order to be courageous, wise, and self-disciplined, one must begin with justice. The influence of the modern world often tells us that acting justly is optional. Holiday argues that that’s simply untrue—and the fact that so few people today have the strength to stand by their convictions explains much about why we’re so unhappy.
By: Ryan Holiday
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Same as Ever
- A Guide to What Never Changes
- By: Morgan Housel
- Narrated by: Chris Hill
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past. Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change. With his usual elan, Morgan Housel presents a master class on optimizing risk, seizing opportunity, and living your best life. Through a sequence of engaging stories and pithy examples, he shows how we can use our newfound grasp of the unchanging to see around corners.
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Beautifully Succinct Summary of Others Original Ideas
- By Mitch on 11-09-23
By: Morgan Housel
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Tax-Free Wealth
- How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes
- By: Tom Wheelwright CPA, Robert Kiyosaki - foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Wheelwright CPA
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Tax-Free Wealth: How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes (Third Edition) by Tom Wheelwright® is a comprehensive guide that unveils strategic approaches to minimizing tax liabilities and accumulating significant wealth. As an acclaimed CPA and World-Renowned Expert on Tax, Wheelwright revisits and updates his groundbreaking work where readers are introduced to a wealth-building philosophy that revolves around using the tax code as a roadmap to building wealth in a way that makes taxes fun, easy, and understandable.
By: Tom Wheelwright CPA, and others
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Millionaire Mission
- A 9-Step System to Level Up Your Finances and Build Wealth
- By: Brian Preston
- Narrated by: Brian Preston
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Brian Preston, host of The Money Guy Show podcast and co-founder of Abound Wealth Management, lays out a nine-step system for building wealth with the money you already have. Millionaire Mission helps you account for your financial blind spots, overcome the fear of making wrong decisions, and take the guesswork out of what to do with your next dollar.
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Stellar performance by Brian Preston!
- By Matt B on 05-29-24
By: Brian Preston
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Reversing Alzheimer's
- The New Toolkit to Improve Cognition and Protect Brain Health
- By: Heather Sandison
- Narrated by: Heather Sandison, Teri Clark Linden
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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A revolutionary and much-needed exploration of Alzheimer’s and how patients and their caregivers can take back control from this insidious disease. A significant portion of our population worries about the grip of dementia as we age. With over 6.5 million Americans living with Alzheimer's, the urgency for a solution has never been greater.
By: Heather Sandison
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Fall of Civilizations
- Stories of Greatness and Decline
- By: Paul Cooper
- Narrated by: Paul Cooper
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
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Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.
By: Paul Cooper
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Everything Is Predictable
- How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
- By: Tom Chivers
- Narrated by: Tom Chivers
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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At its simplest, Bayes’s theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom Chivers lays out how it affects every aspect of our lives. He explains why highly accurate screening tests can lead to false positives and how a failure to account for it in court has put innocent people in jail. A cornerstone of rational thought, many argue that Bayes’s theorem is a description of almost everything.
By: Tom Chivers
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Autocracy, Inc.
- The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
- Length: 7 hrs
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From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them.
By: Anne Applebaum
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The Algebra of Wealth
- A Simple Formula for Financial Security
- By: Scott Galloway
- Narrated by: Scott Galloway
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Today’s workers have more opportunities and mobility than any generation before. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labor and housing shortages, and climate volatility. Even the notion of retirement is undergoing a profound rethink, as our lifespans extend and our relationship with work evolves. In this environment, the tried-and-true financial advice our parents followed is no longer enough. It’s time for a new playbook. In The Algebra of Wealth, Galloway lays bare the rules of financial success in today's economy.
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The best book I read in 2024, Hands Down!
- By Marwan Elnakeeb on 05-16-24
By: Scott Galloway
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- Alex I
- 05-30-24
Not good
I honestly wanted to like this book. The author was recommended by a friend. He obviously hasn’t read this book otherwise he would not recommend it. Very basic information with some factual inaccuracies. The whole “vibe” economy and “vibe” sesh is cringe. There’s a heavy liberal bias, which is ok if that’s your thing. However, I prefer my economics books to be politically neutral.
The author narrates the book, does an ok job, not great. The sections where she reads lists and tables for 10 minutes straight need to be axed. A simple “please refer to table 3.1 in the attached pdf” would suffice.
I’ve learned at least 1 things from every book I’ve read/listened to up until now. This is the first book where I feel like I haven’t learned anything. If you’re considering buying this book, I would not waste my money on it, pretty much ANY other book in the financial section will be better honestly
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- hendogirl
- 05-30-24
Econ 101
Not what I was expecting. If you’re new to the finance world this book will help you because it’s all a VIBE according to the book
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