8 Top business books like Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry by Helaine Olen

Cover of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry by Helaine Olen

Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

By: Helaine Olen

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If you've ever bought a personal finance book, watched a TV show about stock picking, listened to a…

If you liked the business plot in Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry by Helaine Olen , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez

1. Your Money or Your Life

By: Vicki Robin , Joe Dominguez

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

In times like these, it's more important than ever to know the difference between making a living a… read more

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  • personal finance
  • finance
  • money
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry by Helaine Olen

2. Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

By: Helaine Olen

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If you've ever bought a personal finance book, watched a TV show about stock picking, listened to a… read more

Similar categories in Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • personal finance
  • politics
  • finance
  • money
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business

3. Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization

By: Graham Hancock

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply c… read more

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4. Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment

By: David F. Swensen

4.37

Format: 383 pages,

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5. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

By: Sendhil Mullainathan , Eldar Shafir

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our… read more

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6. Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do About it

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.15

Format: None pages,

America is becoming a class-based society. It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of … read more

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Cover of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart

7. Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

By: Alissa Quart

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with … read more

Similar categories in Alissa Quart's Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie

8. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

By: Ben McKenzie

None

Format: None pages, None

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more

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9. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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10. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Gordon's “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

11. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

By: Patricia Evangelista

4.18

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

12. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

Similar categories in Zeke Faux's Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • finance
  • money
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker

13. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

Similar categories in Bianca Bosker's Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • nonfiction
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

Cover of The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen

14. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • nonfiction
Cover of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture by Sara  Petersen

15. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

By: Sara Petersen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more

Similar categories in Sara Petersen's Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • nonfiction
Cover of As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

16. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call … read more

Similar categories in Dina Gilio-Whitaker's As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Pathfinders: Extraordinary Stories of People Like You on the Quest for Financial Independence―And How to Join Them by J.L. Collins

17. Pathfinders: Extraordinary Stories of People Like You on the Quest for Financial Independence―And How to Join Them

By: J.L. Collins

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From “The Godfather of Financial Independence (FI)”, a follow-up to his international bestselling p… read more

Similar categories in J.L. Collins's Pathfinders: Extraordinary Stories of People Like You on the Quest for Financial Independence―And How to Join Them book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • personal finance
  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • money
Cover of Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need by Grant Sabatier

18. Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need

By: Grant Sabatier

3.93

Format: 558 pages, Kindle Edition

The International BestsellerNew York Public Library's "Top 10 Think Thrifty Reads of 2023""This boo… read more

Similar categories in Grant Sabatier's Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need book and Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

  • personal finance
  • finance
  • money
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow

19. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

By: Cory Doctorow

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson

20. Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

By: Scott Patterson

3.78

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A Wall Street Journal bestseller Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fasci… read more

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  • politics
  • finance
  • money
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business

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3.82

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Walt Bogdanich

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