M. Dever

Verbose repetition of theme

Revisado: 01-21-24

Verbosity in the extreme. Where did the editor go? Could use a good condensation. Interesting information and story buried in repetitive repetition of nuclear war theme.

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Extraordinarily rich word selection, a Blizzard

Revisado: 12-16-21

A blizzard of word description, but hard to impossible to follow plot.
You're on a trip, a disjointed complex multifaceted, labyrinth of descriptive things occurring, but no actual plot I could follow.
Maybe inspired by the 60's drug trip stream of conscious road trip,

But, as I don't do drugs, and would not want to be so blinded by the level of drugs this trip requires and describes...

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Proving for most, a Stock Index Fund is Best.

Revisado: 08-07-16

Where does Random Walk Down Wall Street rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Good basic info on the stock market.
-What works and what doesn't.
-What works are index funds for the long run, and short term momentum, daily momentum. and buying quality stocks with earnings.
-Other strategies like a host of different technical analysis can be profitable, but are eaten up by transaction costs and taxes( short term capital gains ). In other words, and index fund is the least risk highest return for anyone, except those who can spend significant hours daily to cracking stocks.
-Markets are not 100% efficient. As if that needed to be proven.
-Also, this version adds info on the physiology of crowds.
-For most people a fund like Vanguard's Total Market Index would give you the best returns with the least risk, and the least expense ratio. With their lower expense ratio, Vanguard funds essentially add another 1% to your returns, compared to other funds.
-Other interesting information, like why are some stock funds "overvalued". There are logical reasons. Growth rate of the company, low interest rates move more money into stock funds, etc...

Have you listened to any of George Guidall’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes, this is a very good reading voice, especially for this material.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Well, yes, but that's not really possible, to many big financial ideas.

Any additional comments?

Everyone knows the Tulip bulb crash as one of the first market bubble/crash examples, but, it started with Edition 1 of this book.

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Detective Story in Overpopulated New York

Revisado: 05-24-16

If you could sum up Make Room! Make Room! in three words, what would they be?

Overpopulation is a theme, however, there's also a story that moves along, usually at a rapid clip. Good descriptiveness. Good character presentation.

What did you like best about this story?

Characters.

What does Eric Michael Summerer bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Good voicing.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

The only element of sci-fi is the overpopulation. Some elements of mad max. Uptown NY still there in a society desolated by population.

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Starting out poorly.

Revisado: 06-27-15

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Gullible Right Wing readers who unquestioningly gulp down right wing "philosophy".

Any additional comments?

Too many assumptions, typically right wing assumptions.This guy's an economic lightweight, he's got a pure unquestioning lightweight right wing understanding of economics.Just two assumptions he blows threw Without Question.That the social democratic states are a failure.- Problem is, those citizens are the happiest workers in the world, and surprisingly the most productive. In fact, the only way the US beats worker productivity in these nations is to CUT Wages and Benefits.Second, The famous supply side graph of the Laffer curve fame. He unquestioningly mis-explains the reason the graph has no Actual Number on it. The real reason is to a right winger, there is NO OPTIMAL Tax Rate, Except Zero, for them, the Rich want to pay Zero. But a Zero tax curve looks pretty bad, they come off looking like FREELOADERS, and the author doesn't want to explain the economic concept of Freeloading off the 99% of the population. So he just blows threw the Laffer curve discussion.In other words this book is written by a kid who knows nothing.

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Slanted Too Far to the Right.

Revisado: 11-12-14

What disappointed you about Damned Lies and Statistics?

Author FIXATED on Activists, with no mention of Propaganda produced by Corporations.

Then without any citation to prove the claim:
Claims activists conveniently site statistics like 1 in 1 million or 2 in 1 million as some kind of statistical red herring. But with the population of the US over 300 million, that hardly makes any sense, because that's only 300 cases. Seems like this would be an under-exaggeration by an activist.

But where's the corporation bull being recorded? With corporations spending millions to hundred's of millions of dollars on deceptive ad campaigns, and now the dark money in politics, to harp about activists so far for 3 chapters seems grossly unbalanced.
What is a lobbying group? A PR organization to convince the political government of an issue, to get candidates elected, and then to convince the public. Absolutely No Mention of this while Harping on Activists.

Would you ever listen to anything by Joel Best again?

No. I'm not a 1 channel Fox News type listener. I browse multiple Qualified Sites for my info. If I can't trust this author, then no I will not buy from this author again.

It's like politics. Lie to me on Global Warming, and I don't trust you on Any Other Issue.

What does Patrick Lawlor bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Sure, he doesn't have the smoothest voice but, for a serious subject he's fine.

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

Disappointment.

Any additional comments?

Who is the publisher. If they produced this book with this slant, then I will be questioning all publication decisions.

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In depth look at Wall Street Fraud

Revisado: 08-15-14

Repubs, get thru the early part of the book, and you will be rewarded with how Wall Street has corrupted the commodities markets. That knowledge is golden.

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Expert at Wall Street Branches Out and FAILS

Revisado: 04-06-13

Black Swan is the Masterpiece by Taleb.
This book is a massive "Reversion toward the Mean".
A Total And Utter Tour de Force of Horseshit, on a massive list of subject's Taleb is utterly incompetent, holding neophyte status in.

Too many times, the vast majority of times Taleb enters subject areas assuming incompetence in the field based in his limited knowledge of the field, from diet to diabetes. Nassim assumes incompetence he may have read from the editorial pages of the WSJ, but not the actual journals of the subjects he discusses.

Just one example, on the one hand he ridicules the NY 20 oz soda ban, no the other he assumes dietitians and pediatricians don't know the dangers of juices and sodas.

He attacks "liberal" economists who generally agree with his proposals, as if Stiglitz doesn't know "Agency" problems, and hasn't railed against them, as Taleb himself has.

This book is a massive attack on "Straw Men", things that aren't true and no one believes.
At Total Waste of your Time and Money.

if you wish to read Taleb, competent in his subject matter, buy Black Swan.

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Interesting Concepts with Slow Sections

Revisado: 04-21-12

The reading was very good, with good voices for the main characters.
The story is interesting, but, there are some slow sections of long pointless detail about landscape.

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Adds nothing to our understanding of Economics

Revisado: 11-25-11

Mischaracterization of cultures.
Author seems to be buried in right wing spin, and has not yet questioned it.
Austerity budgets lead to Much Lower Economic growth.

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