{"product_id":"book-acnz","title":"Dumb Money","description":" \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo 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 \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e has a special gift for making complicated matters easy to understand and even entertaining. In \u003ci\u003eDumb Money\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eDumb Money\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cspan rel=\"pastemarkerend\" id=\"pastemarkerend74040\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49348166844720,"sku":"BDacnz","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/323683-acnz-Square.jpg?v=1734214302","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-acnz","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}