The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide

A second-generation investment advisor explains how to manage money during tough times. With a solid grasp of macroeconomics and investing at his disposal, he shows how various financial instruments respond to a recession or a depression and how to take advantage of trends and minimize risk. Oliver Wyman's vocal clarity and upbeat reading make the author's accessible writing even more understandable and fascinating. His broad range of pitch gives the performance a boyish quality that works surprisingly well with this type of advice. He makes the author's complex formulations sound like kitchen-table talk among friends. It's all the advice you'll ever need when the economy goes south. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

October 26, 2009
In this bestselling financial guide, Weiss, editor of the Safe Money Report Web site and “Safe Money” newsletter, offers valuable advice to those looking to increase their savings and invest their money safely during the economic downturn. The material is helpful and well presented, but ill-served by Oliver Wyman's narration. Wyman does little to keep the listener from feeling lectured to and, in turn, downright bored; he sounds like an uninspired college economics professor preaching to a class of uninterested pupils. A Wiley hardcover.