Author: William Baker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470558008
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A detailed look at how, and why, the American financial system has reached its current state Today's economy and capital markets are faced with the long-term buildup of public and private credit. Furthermore, we face higher taxes, greater spending, and more debt. We are now at a critical crossroads and our leaders have few realistic solutions. Proposals calling for tax reforms or fewer regulations have fallen on deaf ears. In fact, U.S. democracy has become more socialist and reform is needed immediately. Endless Money is an examination of how the U.S. government and the country's financial systems have embraced socialism, and why cultural deterioration reinforces the trend and jeopardizes democracy. In it, author William Baker sees this socialism embodied in two things. The first is the socialization of income, the second is the socialization of credit. Explores the present socialistic qualities of the American government and its financial system Looks back at how today's conditions relate not just to the Great Depression, but ancient empires such as Rome Calls for radical changes such as reduced regulatory power of the Federal Reserve, a considerable devaluation of the dollar in terms of gold, and repeal of income tax Includes a Web site devoted to book, with recommendations, quotes from the financial community, and think tank contacts Insightful and informative, Endless Money examines our current economic condition and describes what the United States can do to get back on the right economic track.
Endless Money
Author: William Baker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470558008
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A detailed look at how, and why, the American financial system has reached its current state Today's economy and capital markets are faced with the long-term buildup of public and private credit. Furthermore, we face higher taxes, greater spending, and more debt. We are now at a critical crossroads and our leaders have few realistic solutions. Proposals calling for tax reforms or fewer regulations have fallen on deaf ears. In fact, U.S. democracy has become more socialist and reform is needed immediately. Endless Money is an examination of how the U.S. government and the country's financial systems have embraced socialism, and why cultural deterioration reinforces the trend and jeopardizes democracy. In it, author William Baker sees this socialism embodied in two things. The first is the socialization of income, the second is the socialization of credit. Explores the present socialistic qualities of the American government and its financial system Looks back at how today's conditions relate not just to the Great Depression, but ancient empires such as Rome Calls for radical changes such as reduced regulatory power of the Federal Reserve, a considerable devaluation of the dollar in terms of gold, and repeal of income tax Includes a Web site devoted to book, with recommendations, quotes from the financial community, and think tank contacts Insightful and informative, Endless Money examines our current economic condition and describes what the United States can do to get back on the right economic track.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470558008
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A detailed look at how, and why, the American financial system has reached its current state Today's economy and capital markets are faced with the long-term buildup of public and private credit. Furthermore, we face higher taxes, greater spending, and more debt. We are now at a critical crossroads and our leaders have few realistic solutions. Proposals calling for tax reforms or fewer regulations have fallen on deaf ears. In fact, U.S. democracy has become more socialist and reform is needed immediately. Endless Money is an examination of how the U.S. government and the country's financial systems have embraced socialism, and why cultural deterioration reinforces the trend and jeopardizes democracy. In it, author William Baker sees this socialism embodied in two things. The first is the socialization of income, the second is the socialization of credit. Explores the present socialistic qualities of the American government and its financial system Looks back at how today's conditions relate not just to the Great Depression, but ancient empires such as Rome Calls for radical changes such as reduced regulatory power of the Federal Reserve, a considerable devaluation of the dollar in terms of gold, and repeal of income tax Includes a Web site devoted to book, with recommendations, quotes from the financial community, and think tank contacts Insightful and informative, Endless Money examines our current economic condition and describes what the United States can do to get back on the right economic track.
Extreme Money
Author: Satyajit Das
Publisher: FT Press
ISBN: 0132790076
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Everything from home mortgages to climate change has become financialized, as vast fortunes are generated by individuals who build nothing of lasting value. Das shows how "extreme money" has become ever more unreal; how "voodoo banking" continues to generate massive phony profits even now; and how a new generation of "Masters of the Universe" has come to domiinate the world.
Publisher: FT Press
ISBN: 0132790076
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Everything from home mortgages to climate change has become financialized, as vast fortunes are generated by individuals who build nothing of lasting value. Das shows how "extreme money" has become ever more unreal; how "voodoo banking" continues to generate massive phony profits even now; and how a new generation of "Masters of the Universe" has come to domiinate the world.
The Money Adventure
Author: Egbert Sukop
Publisher: Egbert Sukop
ISBN: 9780966344509
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: Egbert Sukop
ISBN: 9780966344509
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
GOMEZ
Author: Ed San Luis
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
GO-Mez! is George Oscar Mez's story, an eighty-eight-year-old widower seeking a purpose to living. Possessing telekinetic powers, he chooses to become an American president. Then, meeting a space alien, he wins an interstellar war, becoming the first president of the federation of planets. He also rejuvenates himself to look fifty and meets his dead wife's look-alike in a parallel world. Packed with intrigue, politics, wars, world solutions, and surprises, GO-Mez! moves along quickly. It's also relevant to our national and international problems since solutions by ordinary people is highly unlikely. GO-Mez! is anything but ordinary.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
GO-Mez! is George Oscar Mez's story, an eighty-eight-year-old widower seeking a purpose to living. Possessing telekinetic powers, he chooses to become an American president. Then, meeting a space alien, he wins an interstellar war, becoming the first president of the federation of planets. He also rejuvenates himself to look fifty and meets his dead wife's look-alike in a parallel world. Packed with intrigue, politics, wars, world solutions, and surprises, GO-Mez! moves along quickly. It's also relevant to our national and international problems since solutions by ordinary people is highly unlikely. GO-Mez! is anything but ordinary.
Alien Encounter
Author: Suzann Dodd
Publisher: BookCountry
ISBN: 1463004419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Lorna Western was average. Perhaps, in the scheme of things, below the average. With no real life, no dreams, no hopes, just one empty horizon to another. Depressed she open to any suggestion, and that is when the Alien appeared and made one.
Publisher: BookCountry
ISBN: 1463004419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Lorna Western was average. Perhaps, in the scheme of things, below the average. With no real life, no dreams, no hopes, just one empty horizon to another. Depressed she open to any suggestion, and that is when the Alien appeared and made one.
The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline
Author:
Publisher: Laissez Faire Books
ISBN: 162129031X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Publisher: Laissez Faire Books
ISBN: 162129031X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Barefoot
Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Visiting Nantucket with their children during a summer vacation, three women befriend a local youth and share their struggles with such challenges as infidelity, the loss of a job under scandalous circumstances, and health problems.
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Visiting Nantucket with their children during a summer vacation, three women befriend a local youth and share their struggles with such challenges as infidelity, the loss of a job under scandalous circumstances, and health problems.
The Afghanistan Papers
Author: Craig Whitlock
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982159014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982159014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.
The Dark Colored Rose
Author: Kashish Saxena
Publisher: INK FREEDOM PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 8196154593
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This book is all about the fictional story of 5 students who face different situations and are very afraid. The stories are based on dark websites, friendships, different cities, and how they face everything together, tackling dangerous people and their inner fears and nervousness. The strong bond of friendship is shown in the whole story and how one can face anything if they have good friendship and guidance.
Publisher: INK FREEDOM PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 8196154593
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This book is all about the fictional story of 5 students who face different situations and are very afraid. The stories are based on dark websites, friendships, different cities, and how they face everything together, tackling dangerous people and their inner fears and nervousness. The strong bond of friendship is shown in the whole story and how one can face anything if they have good friendship and guidance.
Fleeing Vesuvius
Author: Richard Douthwaite
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550924761
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The financial crisis that has blighted the world's richest countries since 2008 was a turning point in human history because it ushered in an era in which economies will tend to shrink rather than grow. Incomes will decline becausethe natural resources required for growth — particularly oil, the lifeblood of the world economy — can no longer be extracted in growingquantities. Indeed, as this book shows, the financial crash itself was due to an irresistible force — the rising global demand for cheap fossil fuels — meeting an immoveable object — a static supply. Fleeing Vesuvius is a collection of 27 essays by well-known international authors, all leading thinkers in their fields. Luminaries such asDavid Korowicz, Richard Douthwaite, Nate Hagen, Dmitry Orlov and Dan Sullivan weave together the threads of peak oil, resource depletion, economicinstability, and climate change and offer far-reaching solutions including: Concrete strategies for personal adaptation Workable models of self-reliant local communities Frameworks to support international action on financial and economic reform Timely, practical and fundamentally optimistic, Fleeing Vesuvius is a must read for anyone concerned with reducing our risk of environmental and societal collapse.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550924761
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The financial crisis that has blighted the world's richest countries since 2008 was a turning point in human history because it ushered in an era in which economies will tend to shrink rather than grow. Incomes will decline becausethe natural resources required for growth — particularly oil, the lifeblood of the world economy — can no longer be extracted in growingquantities. Indeed, as this book shows, the financial crash itself was due to an irresistible force — the rising global demand for cheap fossil fuels — meeting an immoveable object — a static supply. Fleeing Vesuvius is a collection of 27 essays by well-known international authors, all leading thinkers in their fields. Luminaries such asDavid Korowicz, Richard Douthwaite, Nate Hagen, Dmitry Orlov and Dan Sullivan weave together the threads of peak oil, resource depletion, economicinstability, and climate change and offer far-reaching solutions including: Concrete strategies for personal adaptation Workable models of self-reliant local communities Frameworks to support international action on financial and economic reform Timely, practical and fundamentally optimistic, Fleeing Vesuvius is a must read for anyone concerned with reducing our risk of environmental and societal collapse.