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| Author | : Daniel Altman |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2011-01-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1429950498 |
A Harvard-trained economist's startling predictions reveal critical challenges in the decades ahead, helping individuals, businesses, and governments to make smarter decisions As individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years to come—where will the long-term risks and opportunities arise? These are the questions that Daniel Altman confronts in his provocative and indispensable book. The fate of the global economy, Altman argues, will be determined by deeper factors than those that move markets from moment to moment. His incisive analysis brings together hidden trends, societal pressures, and policy endgames to make twelve surprising but logical predictions about the years ahead. And his forecasts for the future raise a pressing question for today: With so many challenges awaiting us, are our political and economic institutions up to the task? Outrageous Fortunes tells which industries will grow, which economies will crumble, which investments will pay off, and where the next big crisis may occur. Altman's carefully reasoned text is an essential guide for the road ahead.
| Author | : David Vogel |
| Publisher | : Beard Books |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1587981696 |
The dynamics of business-government relations in the United States between 1960 and 1988.
| Author | : Colleen McCullough |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 1140 |
| Release | : 2020-04-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0063019817 |
With incomparable storytelling skill, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough brings Rome alive in all her majesty—and illuminates the world of those favored by the gods at birth. In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. They were the chosen...and the cursed—blessed with wealth and privilege yet burdened by the dictates of destiny in a savage struggle for power that would leave countless numbers crushed and destroyed. But there was one who would tower above them all—a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition was unparalleled, whose love was legend, and whose glory was Rome's: a boy they would one day call "Caesar."
| Author | : Eduardo Varela Cid |
| Publisher | : El Cid Editor |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
Hidden Fortunes is an expose of the American banking system that focuses on money laundering, political corruption and double standards. The information has been chosen to attack the financial and political machines that support this massive world business at its foundations. The author demonstrates that the so-called war on drags is innocuous and impossible to win by revealing the truth behind the criminal investigations of Citibank and the Senate Committee's case against the Bank of Boston for laundering $1.2 billion of Mafia money. The in-depth information provided should stir readers from any current apathy they may have about the drug war, and restore a sense of outrage.
| Author | : Willard Sterne Randall |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2022-02-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1524745928 |
An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? In this landmark account, historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about. The Founders’ Fortunes uncovers how these leaders waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, the result is a remarkable and insightful new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.
| Author | : Rachel Ehrenfeld |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
From BCCI to hundreds of banks in every major city in the world, this revealing investigation into the trail of illegally laundered money follows the cash pipeline to governments, drug cartels, terrorist organizations, and organized crime.
| Author | : Jake Bernstein |
| Publisher | : W H Allen |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2019-10-15 |
| Genre | : Corruption |
| ISBN | : 9780753553992 |
Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to look the other way. In The Laundromat, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca - a trove now known as the Panama Papers - as well as other journalistic and government investigations. Bernstein shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the superwealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe. The Laundromat offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises critical questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Drug control |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Thomas Locke |
| Publisher | : Down & Out Books |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2022-11-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
It’s what you don’t know that kills you. Shara Desai left India to escape a dark past. Unfortunately, it has followed her to Florida in the form of murderous brother-in-law Vihan, who will stop at nothing to destroy her family and control a source of power they are unwilling to use. Her one hope lies in the man she once rejected. Disgraced analyst Crystal Dumont gets her break when an Indian billionaire hires her to scrutinise a competitor’s shady operations. The investigation shatters her logical world and leads her to unravel a mystery that has kept Asia’s elites in power for centuries. Now, Vihan plans to use the same illicit power to build a criminal empire in the States. To stop him, unlikely allies will have to escape hitmen, outwit an intelligence agency, and outrun time itself. The key to accomplishing all this is Jeremy Spade, a consummate adventurer who has every reason not to trust the system. Brimming with action, intrigue and romance, Fortune’s Favor is the first joint effort by internationally bestselling, inter-cultural, inter-generational author duo Thomas Locke and Jyoti Guptara.
| Author | : William Poundstone |
| Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2010-06-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0374707081 |
In 1956, two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory—the basis of computers and the Internet—to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible. Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the "Kelly formula" to Las Vegas. It worked. They realized that there was even more money to be made in the stock market. Thorp used the Kelly system with his phenomenally successful hedge fund, Princeton-Newport Partners. Shannon became a successful investor, too, topping even Warren Buffett's rate of return. Fortune's Formula traces how the Kelly formula sparked controversy even as it made fortunes at racetracks, casinos, and trading desks. It reveals the dark side of this alluring scheme, which is founded on exploiting an insider's edge. Shannon believed it was possible for a smart investor to beat the market—and William Poundstone's Fortune's Formula will convince you that he was right.
