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AUDIOBOOK read by Jesse Boggs

Holy crap this book is frightening.  I’ll go into some more detail here, but if you have any interest in the financial markets or what happened leading up to the 2007 financial crisis, go read this book.  I’ll admit that I’m not the best at keeping up with the news and am typically so disgusted with the newsmakers and newscasters, that I don’t spend much time getting into the details of what really happened.  Add to that the fact that the only direct impact of the crisis to me was putting a large dent in my 401k (which always seems a little abstract since I don’t really “see” the money yet), and I just chalked the crisis up to corruption and greed, shook my head, and moved on.  After reading this book, I found that I was half right.  The crisis did stem from a lot of corruption and greed, but also hinged on a whole lot of stupidity.