"Bully Market" Expose Sinks to 201,750 In Presale Amazon Ranking - "The Caesars Palace Coup" Might Have Sucked Up All the Oxygen

 There is that old joke about only one entity can occupy space at one time. In the psychiatric facility there can only be one Jesus Christ.

That might be playing out in the dishing-the-dirt-about-Wall Street space. An expose about alleged greed and gender bias at Goldman Sachs is due out at the end of August. That's "Bully Market" by former managing director Jamie Fiore Higgins. 

In presales it has plunged to 210,750 ranking on Amazon. Not good. 

Simultaneously, after a strong run since its publication in March 2021 expose on Wall Street and Big Law "The Caesars Palace Coup" is finally slowing down in sales. On Amazon it had been in the teens in ranking. Then the 20s. Now it's stuck at 32,267. Not good, either. But it still owns the expose space.

But before its coming down to earth, authored by Sujeet Indap and Max Frumes, it had made some of the money crowd uncomfortable. We enjoyed the juicy details of how they allegedly build their wealth. 

However, those billionaires and those on the way there didn't take a hit in their professional (aka earning potential) lives. Likely this weekend they are enjoying their Hamptons getaways, smirking. Cute, isn't it about those earnest authors. 

Here is where we are. Books don't reform anymore. Not like they did in the mid 20th century. Remember how Ralph Nader's expose "Unsafe at Any Speed" set in play a consumer revolution. 

What Higgins, Indap, and Frumes should have done if they had a reform mission is loop into the resources for putting together a documentary. The Hulu "Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons" seems to have shook loose change at that corporation. About 160 managers got the boot. And who emerged again on the radar have been former CEO Les Wexner and Leon Black. Yes, that was in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, they're not catching a break on that one. Comebacks seem not possible. One more thing:  My analysis of that documentary phenomeon got more than the usual 15 minutes of fame.

Reflection: In 2022, people want to make money, not hear about how corrupt the money game allegedly is. 

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