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How Money Became Dangerous: The Inside Story of Our Turbulent Relationship with Modern Finance Kindle Edition

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From a veteran of the trade, a provocative and entertaining voyage into the turbulent heart of modern money that sheds new light on the rise of our threatening and complicated financial system, how money became our adversary, and why finding a new course is crucial to a healthy society

In the not too distant past, money was simple. You might have had a bank account and a mortgage, perhaps some basic investments. Wall Street didn’t have a reputation for greed and recklessness. That all started to change in the eighties, as our financial systems became increasingly complex, moving beyond the understanding of the general public while impacting our lives in innumerable ways. The financial world began to feel like an enigma—a rogue force working against us, seemingly controlled by no one.

From an industry veteran who’s had firsthand involvement in the events that shaped modern money, How Money Became Dangerous journeys from the crime-ridden LA jewelry district to the cutthroat Salomon Brothers trading floor, from the high-stakes world of investment banking to the center of the technology boom, capturing the key deals, developments, and players that made the financial world what it is today. The book illuminates the dark, hidden forces of Wall Street and how it has dehumanized and left behind everyday Americans. A fresh and enlightening take on how we reached this point, How Money Became Dangerous also makes the case for why Wall Street needs to be saved, if only to save ourselves.

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"In this engaging and important book, Chris Varelas shows how the world of money became so complicated and risky."

-- "Walter Isaacson, author of The Innovators"

About the Author

Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is also Director of the Holocaust Research Centre. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Histories of the Holocaust (OUP, 2010) and The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath (Yale, 2015), and some seventy scholarly articles. He is currently the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, working on a project on the International Tracing Service.

Responsible for brokering some of the biggest mergers and acquisitions in finance, Chris Varelas was listed among the top 100 dealmakers by the New York Times and was named top technology rainmaker by DealMakers Monthly magazine. After working as Citi's head of technology, media, and telecommunications during the first dot-com boom and then leading the company's national investment bank and regional offices, Varelas left Citi in 2008 to cofound Riverwood Capital, a premier private equity firm in Silicon Valley.

Dan Stone is a writer and editor and owns North Light, a bar, bookstore, and record shop in Oakland, California.

Roger Wayne is an actor and audiobook narrator working on independent film projects, performing off Broadway, and auditioning for major network shows.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07G14TN69
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco; Reprint edition (November 5, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 5, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2668 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 394 pages

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Dan Stone is a writer, creative director, and bar owner in Oakland, California. He worked for many years at the National Endowment for the Arts as a program manager for the agency’s national initiatives, while also writing and producing dozens of radio documentaries about jazz and classic novels. He founded and served as editor-in-chief of Radio Silence, a magazine of literature and rock & roll, and he coedits the college textbook Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Stone owns North Light near his home in Oakland, a hybrid of a bar, bookstore, and record shop.

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thomas king

Not what you expect. Better.

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2019

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Strong recommendation for this entertaing, yet important read. The literary world is littered with insider, story-laden books about Wall Street, often highlighting the absurdity of compensation-driven, myopic financiers. This is not one of them. While the stories are entertaining, they serve a purpose--to provide humainize and insight to the evolution of the financial services sector and people's relationship with money. Anyone can be a story-teller and make you laugh--but doing so while drawing conclusions and, importantly, a call to action is a unique skill. Thoughtful and provocative observations. Chapters 9,10 and epilogue should be required reading for all. In a world of finger pointing, Chris Varelas entertains and teaches, highlighting everyone's responsibility for our financial and economic system. If you think this book is only about Wall Streeters, you are wrong--it covers tales of Diamond wholesalers, Disney hosts, ecommerce pioneers, municipal investment officers and social media influencers.

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Life learning

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2020

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This was an effective book because it told a personal story.I would love to meet the authors because the point of the book was cleverly buried in a readable personal history . Perhaps this message in a bottle approach has something to do with the Trojan horse or windex which another famous Greek found can fix anything.
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Very Strongly Recommend!

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2019

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There are some books that can truly change one's life. For me, Barbarians Gate and Liar's Poker were two of the modern finance classics that eventually led me to pursue finance, and eventually technology investing. After finishing the book in one seating, I can imagine how this book would profoundly influence the next generation of financiers.

There are hundreds of other books that talks about the evolution and the peril of modern finance. While informative and entertaining, most are based on academic research or very limited set of experience. "How Money Became Dangerous" is anything but. Based on decades of experience squarely at the center of modern finance, Chris effectively delivers his message based on first hand experiences (and there are many of them) in a way that is humorous and sincere.

Overall, a great book! Very highly recommend.

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Excellent Inside View From a Top-Level Financial Executive

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2020

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This is an extremely well written book from one of the top financial industry guys who came up through Citibank when it was the biggest financial institution in the world. His view is well founded from first-hand experience in all aspects of public and private finance, and his vision of the subject is shaped by the many fiascos he not only witnessed (e.g., the bankruptcies of Orange County, and Stockton, California), but several that he helped to fix. He takes us from his earliest moments working at Disneyland in high school, where money for services was a straight-on transaction based on value and accountability; through the developments of plastic card money; derivatives; the debauchery of Wall Street excesses and how it affected so many aspects of our daily life; to the complete detachment of voters from public financing of government and the absence of accountability in government officials. I never was aware of this author while he was working, but his book is a testament to his high level of intelligence which propelled him to the top of his profession (banking), and his ability to both grasp, and elucidate an overview together with the relevant details of a long evolution of money and how it has changed nearly every moment of our lives over the past three decades. Highly recommend.

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Augustin Hong

An Important Message Brought To Life Through the Real Life Experiences of a Gifted Story Teller

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2019

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At first glance, "How Money Became Dangerous" appears to be a collection of entertaining stories from Chris Varelas' decorated Wall Street / Technology career. As a smart, hard-working and ambitious investment banker assigned to the technology mergers & acquisitions sector during the Tech Boom of the 1990s/2000s, Mr. Varelas encountered some of the biggest personalities and most outrageous behavior for which both Wall Street and Technology are famous.

To call this book a memoir, however, would be inaccurate and misleading. Rather, Mr. Varelas has hand-chosen selections from his life and career to illustrate how our relationship to money, wealth, power and influence has changed over the past few decades. In each chapter, he uses one "stop" in his career to present in a balanced format both the benefits and pitfalls of wealth creation. But along with these highly-humorous stories comes a stern and convincing warning: the current course will likely lead us to an outcome that will hurt more than it helps.

"How Money Became Dangerous" is well-written, thought-provoking and extremely entertaining. I highly recommend it.

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A. Graham

Well told stories

Reviewed in Canada on June 16, 2021

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Chris jumps around a bit in this entertaining and well written book. His policy suggestions and life lessons are woven through with good old story telling.

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