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