History of Financial Advice Collection. Andy Borowitz is an American comic and his satirical column of alternative news, “The Borowitz Report,” has been published in The New Yorker since 2012. Borowitz’s books effectively satirize the genre of self-help managerial and financial advice manuals (they include Who Moved My Soap?, for example) and in The Trillionaire Next Door he satirizes both the tone and the claims that were being made by financial advice guides aimed at Day Traders in the dot com boom of the late ’90s. His glossary of key economic terms, for example, includes words such as “mousepad” and “click,” and the book can be read as a modern, albeit rather slapstick, version of Adam Smith’s The Money Game or Fred Schwed’s Where are the Customer’s Yachts? in that it uses satire as a cautionary warning against the heady rhetoric and promises that can characterize the genre of financial investment advice.