LEADER 00000nim 22004095a 4500 001 MWT11512783 003 MWT 005 20160104131158.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 160103s2009 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 9780743598156|q(sound recording)|q(hoopla Audio Book) 020 0743598156|q(sound recording)|q(hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 MWT11512783 037 11512783|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|beng|cCtWisc 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Gross, Daniel,|d1967- 245 10 Dumb money :|bhow our greatest financial minds bankrupted the nation /|cDaniel Gross. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bSimon & Schuster Audio :|bMade available through hoopla,|c2009. 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 30 min.)) : |bdigital 336 unspecified|bzzz|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 500 GMD: electronic resource. 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 520 The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion dollars to bail out banks and financial institutions -- and that's only the beginning. The financial services industry, and the many industries that depend on it -- from housing to cars -- is in intensive care. So what happened? How did we get to this point of financial disaster? Is the economy just a huge, Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme? It is a complicated and confusing story -- but Daniel Gross of Newsweek has a special gift for making complicated matters easy to understand and even entertaining. In Dumb Money, he offers a guide to the debacle and to what the future may hold. This is not so much a book about who did what, though that's part of the story. Rather, it pieces together the building blocks of the debt-fueled economy, and distills the theory and personalities behind our late, lamented easy money culture. Dumb Money is a book that finally lays it all out in an engaging way, and might just help people invest their money smartly until the gloom passes. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Electronic trading of securities. 650 0 Securities fraud. 650 0 Securities industry|xSelf-regulation. 730 0 hoopla (Digital media service) 914 MWT11512783