Squandering aimlessly
Subtitle: my adventures in the American marketplace
By: David Brancaccio.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780684864983
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- United States.; Consumer behavior -- United States.; Finance, Personal -- United States.
Description: "Imagining a windfall of his own and haunted by his own checkered history with money, Brancaccio embarked on a funny and irreverent personal finance pilgrimage. His travels took him from Minnesota's Mall of America to New York City's Wall Street to one of the poorest towns in the West. He encountered entrepreneurs in California, homeowners in New York, retirees in Arizona, and some folks following their lifelong dreams in Texas. A drifter in a desert offered advice.

So did a U.S. secretary of the treasury." "Along the way, Brancaccio was challenged by a cascade of practical and philosophical issues: If consumption drives the economy, is there something wrong with saving? Is there such a thing as a socially responsible investment? Is charity an investment? If you can't beat a Las Vegas casino, can you beat the stock market?".

"While Brancaccio's journey was a personal one, his eye-opening adventures reveal a great deal about attitudes toward money in America at the dawn of the new century - and they provide entertaining lessons about how best to spend, invest, and save."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: The naked truth about money; title: Going back to shopclass : Spending at the Mall of America, Bloomington, Minnesota; title: Invest like your very liberal mother is watching : Being socially responsible, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; title: Be your own boss : Entrepreneurship in Pasadena and Universal City, California; title: Learn to play the game : Taking risks in Las Vegas, Nevada; title: Give it away : Charity in Hawthorne, Nevada; title: Invest like a grown-up : Buying a fat hen on Wall Street; title: Getting real : Dying for a mortgage in Levittown, Long Island; title: Quit your day job : On sabbatical in Levelland, Texas; title: Seek a grey area : Putting it toward retirement in Tucson, Arizona; title: Go conservative : Saving in Seattle.