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Books : The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy |
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List Price: $39.25Amazon.com's Price: $29.83 You Save: $9.42 (24%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: MP3 CD
EAN: 9781423377139
Format: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
ISBN: 1423377133
Label: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed
Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: September 04, 2008
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed
Release Date: September 04, 2008
Sales Rank: 1480808
Studio: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed
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Product Description:
David Smick keeps a low profile, but experts consider him one of the most insightful financial market strategists in the world. For more than two decades, he has conferred with central bankers and advised top Wall Street executives and investors.
The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat left off, taking listeners on an insider’s tour through the private offices of central bankers, finance ministers, even prime ministers. Smick reveals how today’s risky environment came to be—and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of potentially far more devastating trouble. He wrestles with the two questions on everyone’s mind: How bad could things really get in today’s volatile economy? And what can we do about it?
The World Is Curved is the rare work that speaks simultaneously to the Wall Street, Washington, and London elite, yet its apt storytelling shows Main Street readers how to survive in these turbulent times.
“The World Is Curved is...essential...for those who wish to understand the workings, politics, and distresses of the global financial system...insightful and entertaining...” — Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board; author of The Age of Turbulence
“David Smick’s probing insights in The World Is Curved stem from an extraordinary vantage point
few observers can match.”—George Soros, Soros Fund Management
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Don,t waste your money.
Mr Smick's book is so full of obvious contradictions and disconnected propositions leading to illogical conclusions, that it is funny. The only things he omitted are cartoons to illustrate the ridiculous text.
If your I.Q. is above 50, you might want to skip this one unless you would like to see the kind of thinking that got us into the mess we're in. Also, you might want to Google the guys who recommend this book and the people he calls entrepreneurs.
Rating:  - Insightful
Very informative book. Provided excellent insight into China and the possible pitfalls that every investor should consider. Also, the chapter on Japan was of significance especially given the parallels of their crisis and now ours. Hopefully, the US will not make the same mistakes, but after reading the book one realizes that the government and private sector actions and rhetoric are earily similar to the mistakes of Japan's lost decade.
Rating: - The biggest threat: the demise of globalization. Read why...
Within the books I have read about financial crises, the authors develop one core analytical concept. For Morris in the excellent The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash the concept is the over leveraged hedge funds supporting the securitized credit markets. And, how their demise may cause crashes in commercial real estate, credit cards, etc... For Kindleberger in his outstanding Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment ... Read More
Rating:  - a big bunch of interesting ideas, not worth the money
Overall I enjoy the many interesting discussions in the book on macro-economics, international finance and issues on public policy decision making. But the materials presented by the author often lack clear direction. You will find the author presents a large number of ideas without giving a clear conclusion or summary at the end of the chapters. After I read through each chapter, although interesting, I had a sense of not knowing what exactly I just learnt. May be this is the nature of macro-economic ... Read More
Rating: - Not because of content....
I wouldn't know whether this book is good or not. The reader seemed adequate, if not terrific. But, 3 of the first 5 discs had flaws and skipped and sputtered and made whole sections incomprehensible. We had a car trip ruined.
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