FINANCIAL PORNOGRAPHY

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n.

Books, newsletters, and articles that glorify financiers, money managers, and the deals they make.

In The Four Pillars of Wisdom, [author William Berstein] devotes a well-deserved chapter to the financial press and its weakness for "financial pornography" — lurid coverage of star money managers.

— Scott Burns, "Reboot your portfolio," The Seattle Times, August 4, 2002

Mr.Holmes has been hailed as the small investor's "guru" and has been condemned, by newsletter publisher Robert Flaherty, as a purveyor of "financial pornography."

— Bruce Ingersoll, "Regulating Advice," The Wall Street Journal, November 15, 1984

affluenza

bling-bling

debt porn

inconspicuous consumption

domestic pornography

investment pornography

lucrepath

Money

Stock Market and Investing

Pornography