Bailout Nation: Coming Soon!
By Barry Ritholtz - May 8th, 2009, 5:56PM
I just got the very first copy of Bailout Nation print copies from Wiley. It looks fucking fantastic.
The first printing hit the warehouse today; They go out Monday to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders and bookstores everywhere.
I am totally psyched!
I have a bunch of promotions I am working with Wiley on — very fun and exciting stuff.
If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, what are you waiting for?
I am totally jazzed!
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May 8th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Congratulations. Can’t wait to read it.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
It’s the only item on my wish list that invovles spending money for my b-day in June from my wife.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I am waiting for the pig to fly… (kidding…)
May 8th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Long time reader wants to know how I can get my copy signed …
May 8th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Congrats. More importantly I hope your book enlightens. Knowledge is power.
@waiteman
Ditto!!
May 8th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Searching for a Friday night thread. As in FNJ.
Here’s one: reality outside WS, DC and GS.
http://www.mtvmusic.com/dido/videos/10743/thank_you.jhtml
May 8th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
FOUND IT! My all time favorite musician. And Jazz. How tragic he died at such an early age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBGZgyl72_g
May 8th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
FYI: My smart friends tell me Wes invented “double chording” which the Beatles used for their magic potion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvyLUfEZIfY
May 8th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Ok, crowd. Name the other book that I should package Bailout Nation with to get the free shipping.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Are all the bears dead or does anyone care that the S&P futures put in a parabolic move that has now failed twice at 930?
May 8th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
not dead- just hibernating- here’s a question-
GM has publicly announced that they are going to issue massive new shares- do a reverse split 100 to 1- that would dilute the current shareholders to less than 1 cent a share- so-
why has the stock price not responded? leftback has indicated that its comparable to C- which experience a 4 to 1 return- i.e a lottery ticket- however- Citi never issued a public statement saying they were going to dilute the current shareholder to a penny a share-
??? anyone else think it’s odd
May 8th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
usphoenx-
thanks for the links- good stuff
May 8th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
More proof the stress tests were a joke:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124182311010302297.html
May 8th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
@ahab: you’re welcome. Joy. Get it when you can.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
@ahab
I have no friggen idea. I’m completely baffled by the GM thing myself. It seems that there’s got to be some kind of reason for it to be so stable after that announcement. I’d sure like to know what it is. Weird.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Hey Barry, did they tell you it will be available in Wal-Mart or any of the price clubs? They move a *lot* of books.
Oh yeah, congratulations!
May 8th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Super-Anon Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Are all the bears dead or does anyone care that the S&P futures put in a parabolic move that has now failed twice at 930? <<<<<<<<<<<<
Numb, just numb. I don’t know what to say anymore. The world’s gone crazy.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Congrats! Will look for it.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Ok TallSkippy, you asked.
Get Noam Chomsky “Profit Over People”
May 9th, 2009 at 1:20 am
@ahab:
Maybe GM’s price has to do with it still being in the Dow and ETFs and funds having to buy it to mimic the index. If it gets kicked out, I think it goes to pennies.
May 9th, 2009 at 1:53 am
@steve barry: IMHO GM has graduated to the TBTF category. Backed by the taxpayers who will never get to enjoy the benefits. But oh well.
If I were going to guess a stock I’d pick one backed by the fed. And that’s still much better than a cram down.
But I think there’s a huge game underway here that’s yet to play out.
May 9th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Barry, for your next book – hey fame is nice but work is better.
How about a critical analysis of the real rate of return on productive capital over the last 60 years.
Intel appears to be chasing its own tail, a sure sign of destructive capitalism.
May 9th, 2009 at 9:24 am
SB-
you may be on to something Steve- that would make sense- when I heard the original reports I was expecting GM stock to sell off to pennies- but didn’t happen
May 9th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Barry- Are you going to release an audio version?
If so, I’d like to post a sample at http://www.audiobooks.org
May 9th, 2009 at 11:32 am
SB
Re: GM. Yet another unintended consequence of the continuing trend of trading index & sector funds/ETFs. Is true and efficient price discovery happening here? Clearly not in this case. How many other distortions are out there?
More and more professional investors are using ETFs vs. individual stocks. Maybe that’s exacerbated the tendency for just about everything to either go up or down at the same time. During this rally I think that the breadth indicators have been showing “healthy” breadth during this rally while most (or many) other technical indicators don’t show such health.
Is there something to this? Am I missing something?
May 9th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Congratulations. Ironically, I’m unemployed and should not spend money on your book right now. :(
May 9th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Das, there’s always your local library. If they don’t have it, submit an interlibrary loan request.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Chief-
great advice- although- probably not what BR wants to hear- but unless it’s a reference book that I will use often- I will always choose the library over owning
May 9th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Congratulations !!!
Will it be available worldwide too ? in France for instance?
May 9th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Hi Barry,
Any chance of a Kindle version?
May 9th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
BR,
any chance of being able to buy Posters of the the Pig? or a bitmap of yon’ Pig for DIY Printing purposes?
or, Possibly, bitmap of yon’ Pig for a ‘clip-art’ Competition?
Past that, Nice Going on the Book~ something tells me that the Printshop should be ready for the 2nd Printing..
May 9th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
BR, are you doing book signing events? maybe in Krugmans backyard in Princeton? ( also where Bernanke used to run his show? )
May 10th, 2009 at 3:05 am
I would also like to see a Kindle and audiobook version. I usually like it better when someone other than the author reads the book, but in this case, Barry, I think you not some actor should be the reader.
May 31st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
BR,
Another vote for a Kindle edition. There will be a lot of downloads, I think.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Books with charts, graphs, maps and etc. suffer in audio form. Also, many audio publishers leave out footnotes.