Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
How the Stock Market Works
Ramon P. DeGennaro & The Great Courses · 2014
🎙 Narrated by Ramon P. DeGennaro (presented/narrated by the author, as is standard for The Great Courses lecture series)
80/100
👍 Worth It
A real finance professor walks you through the market clearly and honestly - brokerage accounts to balance sheets to why chasing hot stocks is usually a bad idea - it's the responsible, grown-up version of a beginner course. It's structured as a lecture series rather than a narrative, so go in ready for classroom pacing, though DeGennaro delivering it himself gives it real authority and the narration a genuinely knowledgeable feel.
✦ 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 Presented directly by the credentialed author in classic Great Courses lecture style - authoritative but academic pacing, not a performed narration.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety80
Substance / usefulness85
Craft & writing78
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy88
Hype vs delivers85
Age-fit75
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict80
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