
A Piece Of The Action: How The Middle Class Joined The Money Class
Now with a new introduction describing the fallout of America’s consumer credit boom, 1994’s wildly acclaimed bestseller A Piece of the Action tells the story of how millions of middle class Americans went from being savers to borrowers and investors through the invention of credit cards, mutual funds, and IRAs—resulting in profound societal change.“America began to change on a mid-September day i...
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition (October 15, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1476744890
ISBN-13: 978-1476744896
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.4 inches
Amazon Rank: 488579
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“In the late 60's and mainly the 1970's, a huge sea change took place in American financial history - a change so dramatic that it is still being felt today. Joseph Nocera takes a look at those dramatic changes an the figures behind them in A Piece of...”
1958, when the Bank of America dropped its first 60,000 credit cards on the unassuming city of Fresno, California.” So begins Joe Nocera’s riveting account of one of the most astonishing revolutions in modern American life—what Nocera labels “the money revolution.” In the decades since, the middle class has gained access to credit cards, to mutual funds, to retirement accounts—and to hundreds of other financial vehicles that have allowed everyone to get “a piece of the action.” In this lively, engaging book, some of the great financial characters of modern times—from Charles Merrill to Charles Schwab to Peter Lynch—strut across the stage as the course of this great financial shift is charted.In an all-new introduction, Nocera takes a look back at the consequences of the money revolution. Were members of the middle class as prepared as the innovators claimed to take control of their financial lives? Or did events like the dot-com and the housing bubbles suggest something else: that far too many of us lacked the wherewithal to make sound investment decisions?
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