Paul Vigna

The point died at 7:43 a.m. ET, long before anybody could get to it.

Gonna have to put a no-AI-obit clause into my living will.

I saw Casablanca on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall in the ‘90s. When Bogart tells the Nazis “there are some parts of New York I’d advise your fuhrer not to try and invade” the whole place erupted.

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The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin, available now from @St. Martin’s Press. #money #god #religion #economics #booktok TikTok video by Paul Vigna

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Is that food for Martians? Doesn't look like anything humans would eat.

All About the Money: How Greed Became the Credo of Civilization Author Paul Vigna shares 5 key insights from his new book, The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin.

Money is a product of religion, greed created capitalism, and other takeaways from my new book The Almightier, via @nextbigidea.bsky.social.

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No cheating, show you Lock Screen.

Look, I had a thing Thursday night.

What is Money? - Pretzl In The Almightier, journalist Paul Vigna uncovers the forgotten history of money, tracing the uneasy and often accidental alliance between wealth and religion as it developed from ancient city-states ...

The Almightier is the really the result of debates I heard about whether or not #bitcoin is money that I heard when I first started covering it in 2013. Because those debates forced me to ask myself a question: what is money?

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Nonfiction Views: This week's notable new nonfiction Good evening, everyone. Just the basics this evening. Here are my picks of notable nonfiction published this week.� THIS WEEK’S NOTABLE NEW NONFICTION The Almightier: How Money Became God, ...

@dailykos.com included The Almightier among its roundup of notable new nonfiction. @owillis.bsky.social

Almightier tells the story of how money was created by religion, how money broke free from religion, and how money replaced religion. A 5k-yr story about today.

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The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin [Vigna, Paul] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin

If you want to buy it, it's available now:

(Top new release in Amazon's money section!)

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hat’s what The Almightier is about. I am not going to say it has every answer. It doesn’t. But it goes down a road nobody else has gone down, and I think it present a new explanation of money that can help us fix what’s broken.

The book has something important to say.

This is not just some hippie idea. People across the political spectrum know that the system isn’t working, that it’s rigged, that a small group are thriving at the expense of billions. But because we don’t really understand money we don’t know how to fix this.

Look, money isn’t real. It’s a construct, a system. And if the system isn’t working we can, and morally should, change it.

And the system isn’t working, not as well as it could. And a big part of the problem is we’ve deified money and debt.

We need to address that.

Last night I was hosted by the Center for Financial Stability at the Penn Club in midtown to talk about money and The Almightier. About 25 people, many fincl execs. And the idea that hit the biggest nerve with them was something from the end of the book: a worldwide debt jubilee.

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Happy NEW BOOK TUESDAY!

1. Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar: by Katie Yee

2. The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin: by WSJ reporter Paul Vigna

3. Don’t Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds: by Sarah Stein Lubrano.

From God to Gordon Gekko: New book tracks how greed became good Paul Vigna’s new book, “The Almightier,” follows the transformation of avarice from a mortal sin in medieval Europe to a broadly fetishized force...

"Capitalism, our ideas about money, all these things were formulated 600 years ago. And we haven’t really changed our attitudes about it. I don’t think our economics actually reflect the conditions that exist today."

Talked to Sherwood News about The Almightier.

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The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin [Vigna, Paul] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin

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Pub Day!

My new book The Almightier is out today and is already the top new release in Amazon’s money section.

It’s a history of money from a unique angle: how money came from religion, how money broke free of religion, and how money eventually became its own religion.

That’s a timely story.

The Almightier is the #1 new release in Amazon’s Money & Monetary Policy section. Book lands Tuesday. We’re moving up the charts!

If you haven’t read @billmckibben.bsky.social’s piece in the New Yorker, go find it. Solar is changing so fast most people aren’t even aware.

It should have happened decades ago, but solar power is becoming real.

“Chatty, good-hearted, burning with a thesis” Bloomberg says of The Almightier in its review, out this morning. “In tracing how greed became virtue, or at least not obviously sin, Vigna implores his readers to look freshly at the world and to move through it in a mode other than blind acquisition.”

Keep my Jeep's starter going for like another year. My mechanic told me to do it.

I didn't watch any of either, either, and I'm feeling fine about myself as a sports fan.

I mean, until very recently this wasn't even something that needed debating.

In Star Trek’s City on The Edge of Forever, Kirk and Spock travel back in time to the 1930s. The episode aired in 1967.

For a sci-fi show airing today that would be like sending your characters from the future back to…the 1990s.

disagreement and criticism of ideas are great! I argue for a living! But if the first thing you have to say to me on here includes an unprovoked insult there won't be a second thing, and I don't especially care what point you were making along the way. I think this is pretty good online etiquette

Barnes & Noble members can save 25% between now and Friday on preorders of The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin.

Pretty good deal you ask me.

They’re going to spend way more on campaign ads than in the extra 2-3% hike in their city taxes.

The punctuation, is killing. Me.