Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Kurtz, Howard |
| Publisher: | Free Press |
| Date: | 6/5/2001 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Spin Cycle comes this engrossing, entertaining exposé of how the media — from television to newspapers to the Internet — drive the financial markets today.
The booming economy and mass investing have produced an insatiable demand for financial news and given rise to a group of “fortune tellers” eager to scoop and spread the latest intelligence. In this riveting, unsettling book, Howard Kurtz introduces the powerful journalists, commentators, and analysts whose reports — too often based on rumor, speculation, and misinformation — have a real-time impact on the rise and fall of stocks and on the financial health of millions of investors.
Focusing on such well-known figures as cable TV’s Ron Insana, Maria Bartiromo, and Lou Dobbs; Christopher Byron and other print reporters who specialize in exclusives; and superstar analysts Ralph Acampora and Henry Blodget, The Fortune Tellers is an incisive, often amusing, and sometimes terrifying report by a journalist well known for his sharp-eyed observations and behind-the-scenes access. In a time of head-spinning volatility, The Fortune Tellers is essential reading for all of us who gamble with our savings in today’s overheated stock market.
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