Comments on: Bailout Nation Cover

By: tawm

tawm — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:09:10 +0000

Hi Barry: Any plans for an audio (unabridged) version? I realize the business case may not be great, BUT for those of us with more downtime in transit to “read” by audio than print, it would be appreciated.

By: jlord

jlord — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:53:40 +0000

I would like to read this on my kindle….
PLEASE, PLEASE

By: Space_Cowboy_NW

Space_Cowboy_NW — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:02:47 +0000

“Barry Ritholtz Says:

March 12th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Thanks for all the kind words –

Yes, there will definitely be signings; NY (obviously) Boston and Philly on the East coast; Chicago; SF and LA are very likely out West.

More to come . . .”

Can you make the journey upto Portland (Powell’s Books would love to have you do a reading & signing…their stock & trade as one of the largest indy book stores in America.) or Seattle?

I’ll pick up your dinner tab at any of the various great stake/seafood joints…..

Space_Cowboy_NW

By: formershrink

formershrink — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:36:33 +0000

That is awesome! Terrific cover.

By: TraderMD

TraderMD — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:06:15 +0000

Barry, I second many of the responses above in regards to the pre-ordering process.

I had a pre-order setup for a prior listing and when I saw this post I had to go back and cancel the prior listing and pre-order this listing.

By: VangelV

VangelV — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:43:39 +0000

I look forward to reading the book. That said, Thomas Woods’ great book, Meltdown, will be a hard act to follow. In my opinion he got the story right and offers the best explanation so far. Of course, it helps that the Austrian School, of which he is a follower, predicted the crisis based on sound economic principles when others failed to see it coming.

By: Moss

Moss — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:30:14 +0000

Onik, oink. Let the fallout from the bailouts begin.

By: dead hobo

dead hobo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:15:40 +0000

Speaking of bailouts, have you heard the one about some banks wanting to return free bailout cash from the GWB incarnation of Uncle Stupid because, heaven forfend, they might have to start actually accounting for it and they don’t like the new administration now treating them like real welfare recipients. It looks like Uncle Stupid might be showing the bud of a brain stem that might be growing larger.

By: greg

greg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:13:51 +0000

Rather than a CNBC girl perched on top, I would have had a cartoon drawing of any one of the Bank CEO’s riding the thing, with similar drawings of the rest of them surrounding it, awaiting their turn to ride. Could have used Fuld, Cayne, O’Neal, Mozilo, Thain, just to name a few, and they could all have money stuffed in their suits and kinda spilling out all over the place, and then you could have a drawing of Madoff a little more in the background, picking up all the money that has spilled on the ground. You may have had to make the book coffee table size however.

By: Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:47:58 +0000

Thanks for all the kind words –

Yes, there will definitely be signings; NY (obviously) Boston and Philly on the East coast; Chicago; SF and LA are very likely out West.

More to come . . .