Up next, on booktv after words, the author discusses the personal finance industry and its dark side. His work was featured in the saturday evening post last month. Host i enjoyed your book quite a bit. Guest thank you very much. Host it was very easy to read. I was caught by the subtitle exposing the dark side of the personal finance industry. Which later in the book, you call it a personal finance industry complex, which includes not only investment banks and brokers and planners come but also the Financial Media, newswriter and publishers come and do even include yourself in that book. As a former columnist for the l. A. Times coming you include yourself as part of this and you point out, i think with some guild, you are responsible for giving people an illusion of control. Can you talk about that . What do you mean by illusion of control . Guest i am going to backtrack to personal personalfinance firmament. It is really a spinoff of the 1930s britain 1930s are known for everything
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