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What would you do if you received a sudden financial windfall? David Brancoaccio，whose ability to clarify economic matters has made public radio's Marketplace a hit，set out to discover where，why ，and how people are spending their riches-whether it's proceeds from stock options，profits from the sale of a house，or an unexpected inheritance or bonus. His journey takes readers from Minnesota's Mall of America to the financia caveerns of Wall Street，to a college sge among the oil wells of West Texas.He gathers wisdom on money and its uses from Calinfornia entrepre-neurs，a drifter in the desert，a U.s.threasury secretary，and many others from all walks of life.The resuli is at once a delightful adventure and an eye-open-ing report on America's attitudes about spending，saving，and investing. 作者简介： DAVID BRANCACCIO is host and senior editor a Marketplae，pub-lic radio's award-winning business program.Abroadcaster and peporter for more than twenty-five years，he lives in Los

This is an entertaining book that succeeds despite its author's missteps as a humorist. In presenting the odds of all manner of events both possible ("Dating a Supermodel") and improbable ("Becoming a Professional Athlete"), Baer (The Great Mutual Fund Trap) is clearly emulating the Worst-Case Scenario books, which have turned studying extreme real-life events into a cottage industry. Baer knows and expertly uses statistics and probabilities: it is fascinating to learn, for example, that the chances of dying by being hit by an asteroid are three times greater than dying in a train crash or an earthquake and are 250 times greater than dying from a shark attack. He also provides some revealing sidebars on certain topics, such as his look at how the odds of celebrity divorce are even worse than the already horrible odds of divorce for newly married couples ("about even money, 1 to 1"). Baer sometimes interrupts his statistical analyses with attempts at Dave Barry-style one-liners, but they fall flat, such as whe