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Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook

The Making of a Permabear

Jeremy Grantham · 2026
🎙 Narrated by James Langton
85/100
👍 Worth It

Jeremy Grantham earned the right to write this one — sixty years of correctly calling bubbles, told with the wit of a guy who was right and knows it, co-written with a real financial historian. James Langton's trained-actor narration should suit the memoir's candid, story-driven tone nicely. This is the kind of finance title with actual substance behind the name on the cover, and it's worth the listen.

✦ 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 James Langton is a professionally trained actor and experienced narrator; no direct critique found but his credentials suggest a polished performance.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness85
Craft & writing85
Originality80
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit90
Human-eye read85
Penny’s verdict85
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