Part One: A Critique of Impure Reason
Chapter 1: Do-Gooders Gone Bad 3
Chapter 2: Love in the Time of Viagra 21
Chapter 3: The Transit of Venus 47
Part Two: Witch Hunts and War Drums
Chapter 4: The Devil Made Them Do It 75
Chapter 5: Words of War 98
Part Three: Militant Messiahs
Chapter 6: War and Remembrance 113
Chapter 7: Empire of Delusion 132
Chapter 8: Heroes of the Revolution 150
Part Four: Flattening the Globe
Chapter 9: The Number Game 185
Chapter 10: The Flat Earth Society 197
Chapter 11: What the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo Didn’t Know 216
Part Five: The Bubble Kings
Chapter 12: Fin de Bubble 245
Chapter 13: The Million-Dollar Trailer 266
Chapter 14: Central Bank Bamboozle 280
Chapter 15: The Mother of the Mother of All Bubbles 296
Part Six: Far From the Madding Mob
Chapter 16: How Not to Be Chumped by Wall Street 321
Chapter 17: The Dupe of Hearts 364
Notes 391
Index 413
WILLIAM (BILL) BONNER is President and CEO of Agora Inc., one of the world’s largest financial newsletter companies (www.agorafinancial.com). He is the creator of the Daily Reckoning, a contrarian financial newsletter (www.dailyreckoning.com). Bonner is also the author, with Addison Wiggin, of the international bestsellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt.
LILA RAJIVA is a political journalist and the author of The Language of Empire, a groundbreaking study of the media coverage of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. She is a contributor to Agora Financial(www.agorafinancial.com) and the creator of the blog, The Mind-Body Politic (www.lilarajiva.com).
"…extremely timely…irreverent but thought-provoking examination of the goings on in international finance today… packs a serious punch." (The Independent) "To say that this book is skeptical or contrarian is like saying Warren Buffett has money....entertaining criticism of anything and everything...I read the full 400 pages in just a few days.."-Rob May at Business Pundit (Top 10 business site) http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/mobs_messiahs_and_markets.php(Nov. 2007) "...the recent market instability stemming out of subprime woes makes this book extremely timely." (Gulf Business, February 2008) "Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets by William Bonner and Lila Rajiva is a fascinating work....downright hilarious...a serious look at an important phenomenon in the human condition."- Dr. Jonathan Dolhenty of the highly rated philosophy site, Radical Academy (Oct. 2007) "a sharp-witted jaunt through the mass hysteria that’s defined markets and people through the ages" -Money Week (Sept. 2007) "William Bonner and Lila Rajiva provide the answers in this exhilarating -- if somewhat depressing -- book. Although their insights will often make readers laugh out loud, they will also find themselves wriggling uncomfortably at the manifold idiocies of human behaviour." -The National Post, Canada (Nov. 07) "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay would be a better choice to begin. Without that context for this book, you'll find yourself gobbling caviar without knowing what it is." - Donald Mitchell, author of The 2000 Percent Solution, December 18, 2007 "A fascinating book," - Alan Caruba in Book Views, December, 2007 "Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets is a tragi-comedy, full of sharp observations, delivered with equally sharp wit. This book's dark and disturbing revelations could leave one depressed and disillusioned, were it not so damn funny." -- Adam Bergen at Blog Critics, December 31, 2007
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