How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say–And What It Really Means Audiobook (Free)

To those who don’t speak it, the language of money can appear impenetrable and its ideas as well complex to grasp. How to Speak Money is acclaimed article writer John Lanchester’s entertaining and informative try to bridge the difference between the money people and the rest of us.

With characteristic wit and candor (‘wickedly funny’ –Dwight Garner, New York Occasions), Lanchester displays how the world of financing and economics really works–from the terms and conditions of your personal checking account towards the evasions of bankers appearing before Congress. How to Speak Money reveals the way the vocabulary of money is often a tool to conceal and mislead; he points out hundreds of common economic terms, from GDP towards the IMF, amortization and securitization to collateralized debts obligation; and he argues that we all need to speak money lest those who do compose the financial rules for themselves.