None of my business
Subtitle: P.J. explains money, banking, debt, equity, assets, liabilities, and why he's not rich and neither are you
By: P. J. O'Rourke
Edition: First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780802128485
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Money; Humor; Investments; Banks and banking
Description: P. J. O'Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet --- business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind them.
Notes: "Chapters have appeared in a previous version in American consequences and Standsberry digest" --verso.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Why I'm not rich and you aren't either; title: Section I: How I learned economics by watching people try to kill each other; title: Introduction; title: The power of the economic impulse; title: The real secret behind all investment scams; title: (Topic for discussion) If you want hard money, how hard do you have to be to get it?; title: Section II: Money and banking; title: Introduction; title: The strange, shape-shifting symbol of value; title: My own personal central bank; title: Negative interest rates: not only wrong but evil; title: Debt jubilee; title: Section III: Mutant capitalism; title: Introduction: The mutants; title: One good thing about mutant capitalists: they aren't playing Monopoly; title: What are corporations for?; title: Section IV: The transition; title: Introduction: The digital age and which digit it's giving us; title: A brief history of economic transitions; title: A blockhead confronts the blockchain; title: What's the connection?; title: What has the digital revolution done to print media?; title: Five lessons about the digital economy from a member of the digital generation; title: Innovation: it's all in your head; title: Innovations that get no respect; title: Unnovations; title: Six geniuses (plus some cartoon animators) try to see into the future; title: A ray of hope in the contest between man and machine; title: Section V: Consumption; title: Introduction: Some thoughts on the history of trade; title: The price of being middle class; title: Armchair predictions about consumer trends; title: Consumer trends among the "grumpies"; title: Consumer trends among the "grumpies," part 2; title: Summing up American consumer trends; title: All the money in the world; title: Section VI: Random walk; title: Introduction; title: Five things I know about China; title: Doubts about Asia; title: Thoughts wile cleaning the chicken coop; title: Six lessons from a man on horseback; title: Sympathy for the devil; title: Reform or deform?; title: Free-for-all!