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Paul Podolsky and The Paradox of Financial Fiction

The Alchemy of Money

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The Easy Quest, the Easy Answer Is the Investor Standpoint

I wanted to make it a visceral sense. This concept of financial war come alive. We are in a financial war right now. It's crystal clear what's going on with the chip stuff to China and what they're trying to do to Russia, Europe. And I wanted to make the mechanics of that seem as real as a battlefield scene. Now I think a battlefield scene will always be more interesting because I don't know how many people have looked at so many types of things. That's part of what was going on this book. There is another reason why there are cross-purposes between money and plot. The assumptions can be faulty that's part ofwhat the plot reveals without revealing

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