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What is Money Makes the World Go Around about?

Amid all the globo-babble touting the virtues of the new world economy, it's hard to answer one crucial question: How much is each of us actually affected by the free flow of capital around a world without barriers? Barbara Garson set out to see for herself, and the result is this hilarious and instructive gallop through international finance. <p>Garson begins simply by depositing a modest sum in a one-branch, small-town bank. With a second sum, she buys shares in an aggressive mutual fund. From those points of departure, she tracks her money's every stop as it races digitally around the world for loans, speculation, and investments. The trail takes her to, among other places, the Federal funds trading desk of a Manhattan mega-bank, a Brooklyn shrimp importer, a new oil refinery in Asia, and factories in Tennessee and Maine.</p> <p>All along the way she talks to the people who touch, use, or are touched by her money. Her encounters with Wall Street bankers, Chinese labor contractors, Texas oil company treasurers, Bangkok street vendors, Thai welders, American workers, owners, and union representatives, and George Soros -- all of whom get a piece of her investment -- transform our u

Who reads Money Makes the World Go Around?

Author

Barbara Garson

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780142000502

Category

business

Subjects

Business

Rating

4 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14