Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
Ben McKenzie & Jacob Silverman · 2023
🎙 Narrated by Ben McKenzie (author-narrated)
77/100
👍 Worth It
Ben McKenzie turns his own embarrassing crypto losses into a sharp, well-reasoned takedown of the industry's fraud and hype, and his self-narration gives it real candor. It's current enough to have made the New York Times bestseller list, though one reviewer found the tone occasionally shrill and I couldn't confirm how blue the language gets, so preview first if that matters to you. A smart pick for anyone crypto-curious.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Author-narrated with 'candid charm' per reviewers, using his own losses as the entry point.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing78
Originality70
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers82
Age-fit80
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict77
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