Author: Rana Foroohar
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0553447254
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? "A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the “financialization of America”—the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business—is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial system propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the system, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers,” those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers,” businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward.
Makers and Takers
Author: Rana Foroohar
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0553447254
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? "A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the “financialization of America”—the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business—is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial system propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the system, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers,” those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers,” businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward.
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0553447254
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? "A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the “financialization of America”—the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business—is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial system propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the system, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers,” those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers,” businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward.
Money Takers
Author: Tyree Stratton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988806399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Tyreek Stafford, better known as Reek, is the face of the Mayland Street Money Takers. After turning his team onto a numbered of Armored Truck heists, his wealth grows, and so do his problems along with his enemies. With his right hand man Nas by his side, Reek and the rest of the Mayland Street Money Takers are ready to take on any obstacle that comes their way. With betrayal lurking in the winds, will Reek be too blinded by greed to see betrayal when he's face with it? Take a ride through the mean streets of Killadelphia with the bul Reek. By the time your ride ends, you will think you were a Mayland Street Money Taker yourself.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988806399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Tyreek Stafford, better known as Reek, is the face of the Mayland Street Money Takers. After turning his team onto a numbered of Armored Truck heists, his wealth grows, and so do his problems along with his enemies. With his right hand man Nas by his side, Reek and the rest of the Mayland Street Money Takers are ready to take on any obstacle that comes their way. With betrayal lurking in the winds, will Reek be too blinded by greed to see betrayal when he's face with it? Take a ride through the mean streets of Killadelphia with the bul Reek. By the time your ride ends, you will think you were a Mayland Street Money Taker yourself.
Money Magnet
Author: Steve McKnight
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0730383806
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Who else wants to attract and keep more money and live a stress-free life? In this breakthrough book, bestselling author and self-made multi-millionaire Steve McKnight delivers a simple yet powerful guide anyone can use to make, manage and multiply their money, and to make their wealth count by giving it meaning. Money is a mystery to many people. It’s not because they’re hopeless at maths, unlucky, or big spenders. It's simply because they don't know how to think and act in ways that will attract wealth that sticks. Ultimately, it’s about learning how to become a money magnet—and anyone can do it! Money Magnet reveals the crucial truths and tools needed to acquire a wealth mindset. Inside you’ll find key strategies—not taught elsewhere—that you can use to create a blueprint for financial freedom. Also included are handy templates, checklists and other aids to help you plan, manage and measure your wealth-building progress. Discover: Why you might be pre-programmed to fail financially without knowing it How to attract more wealth by changing the way you think and act around money The step-by-step guide for calculating how much wealth you need to achieve financial freedom The mathematically proven investing formula for building wealth fast How to give your money meaning and add significance to your life And much, much more This book is perfect for those seeking a step-by-step pathway to overcoming money struggles, and those who want a better and brighter financial future for themselves, their children, and for generations to follow. It's time to learn how to count your money and make your money count.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0730383806
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Who else wants to attract and keep more money and live a stress-free life? In this breakthrough book, bestselling author and self-made multi-millionaire Steve McKnight delivers a simple yet powerful guide anyone can use to make, manage and multiply their money, and to make their wealth count by giving it meaning. Money is a mystery to many people. It’s not because they’re hopeless at maths, unlucky, or big spenders. It's simply because they don't know how to think and act in ways that will attract wealth that sticks. Ultimately, it’s about learning how to become a money magnet—and anyone can do it! Money Magnet reveals the crucial truths and tools needed to acquire a wealth mindset. Inside you’ll find key strategies—not taught elsewhere—that you can use to create a blueprint for financial freedom. Also included are handy templates, checklists and other aids to help you plan, manage and measure your wealth-building progress. Discover: Why you might be pre-programmed to fail financially without knowing it How to attract more wealth by changing the way you think and act around money The step-by-step guide for calculating how much wealth you need to achieve financial freedom The mathematically proven investing formula for building wealth fast How to give your money meaning and add significance to your life And much, much more This book is perfect for those seeking a step-by-step pathway to overcoming money struggles, and those who want a better and brighter financial future for themselves, their children, and for generations to follow. It's time to learn how to count your money and make your money count.
The Bankers' Magazine, and Journal of the Money Market
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ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
The Maker Versus the Takers
Author: Jerry Bowyer
Publisher: Fidelis Books
ISBN: 1642933716
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Theologians virtually ignore the economic commentary in the Bible. In the few cases where it gets any attention, economic commentary in the Gospels and other New Testament writings tend to lapse into simplistic class warfare nostrums. Liberation theologians import Marxism wholesale (but they try to sell it retail) into theology. Academic historians of 1st Century Palestine/Judea have been pushing an account of a poor peasant Jesus leading a poor peasant's revolt based on the idea of mass displaced workers in Lower Galilee. The problem is the actual archeological findings paint a picture of an industrious and entrepreneurial economy during Jesus's time there. Reading the Gospels in light of archeology and history, which are now available to us, gives us a very different picture than the one you’ve been told regarding what Jesus taught about work and money.
Publisher: Fidelis Books
ISBN: 1642933716
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Theologians virtually ignore the economic commentary in the Bible. In the few cases where it gets any attention, economic commentary in the Gospels and other New Testament writings tend to lapse into simplistic class warfare nostrums. Liberation theologians import Marxism wholesale (but they try to sell it retail) into theology. Academic historians of 1st Century Palestine/Judea have been pushing an account of a poor peasant Jesus leading a poor peasant's revolt based on the idea of mass displaced workers in Lower Galilee. The problem is the actual archeological findings paint a picture of an industrious and entrepreneurial economy during Jesus's time there. Reading the Gospels in light of archeology and history, which are now available to us, gives us a very different picture than the one you’ve been told regarding what Jesus taught about work and money.
What They Do With Your Money
Author: Stephen Davis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300223811
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren’t told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance industry does a good job, but as this book shows, it too often fails us. Financial institutions regularly place their business interests first, charging for advice that does nothing to improve performance, employing short-term buying strategies that are corrosive to building long-term value, and sometimes even concealing both their practices and their investment strategies from investors. In their previous prizewinning book, The New Capitalists, the authors demonstrated how ordinary people are working together to demand accountability from even the most powerful corporations. Here they explain how a tyranny of errant expertise, naive regulation, and a misreading of economics combine to impose a huge stealth tax on our savings and our economies. More important, the trio lay out an agenda for curtailing the misalignments that allow the financial industry to profit at our expense. With our financial future at stake, this is a book that analysts, economists, policy makers, and anyone with a retirement nest egg can’t afford to ignore.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300223811
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren’t told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance industry does a good job, but as this book shows, it too often fails us. Financial institutions regularly place their business interests first, charging for advice that does nothing to improve performance, employing short-term buying strategies that are corrosive to building long-term value, and sometimes even concealing both their practices and their investment strategies from investors. In their previous prizewinning book, The New Capitalists, the authors demonstrated how ordinary people are working together to demand accountability from even the most powerful corporations. Here they explain how a tyranny of errant expertise, naive regulation, and a misreading of economics combine to impose a huge stealth tax on our savings and our economies. More important, the trio lay out an agenda for curtailing the misalignments that allow the financial industry to profit at our expense. With our financial future at stake, this is a book that analysts, economists, policy makers, and anyone with a retirement nest egg can’t afford to ignore.
Give and Take
Author: Adam Grant
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143124986
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the bestselling author of Think Again and Originals For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143124986
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the bestselling author of Think Again and Originals For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.
Self in the World
Author: Keith Hart
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800734212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Eminent anthropologist Keith Hart draws on the humanities, popular culture and his own experiences to help readers explore their own place in history. We each embark on two life journeys – one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, anthropologist, amateur economist and globetrotter Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human. “This is a work of great originality. Keith Hart has had an unorthodox academic career and it has liberated him in many ways from academic pieties. His background in African ethnography gives him a fascinating angle on all sorts of things, not least the possibility of a more African-influenced global future. The book is full of surprises and mind-shifting observations. I actually couldn't put it down.”—Sherry B. Ortner, UCLA From the introduction: People have many sides, but I will focus here on two. Each of us is a biological organism with a historical personality that together make us a unique individual. But we cannot live outside society which shapes us in unfathomable ways. Human beings must learn to be self-reliant (not self-interested) in small and large ways: no-one will brush your teeth for you or save you from being run over while crossing the street. We each must also learn to belong to others, merging personal identity in a plethora of social relations and categories. Modern ideology insists that being individual and mutual is problematic. The culture of capitalist societies anticipates a conflict between them. Yet they are inseparable aspects of human nature.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800734212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Eminent anthropologist Keith Hart draws on the humanities, popular culture and his own experiences to help readers explore their own place in history. We each embark on two life journeys – one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, anthropologist, amateur economist and globetrotter Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human. “This is a work of great originality. Keith Hart has had an unorthodox academic career and it has liberated him in many ways from academic pieties. His background in African ethnography gives him a fascinating angle on all sorts of things, not least the possibility of a more African-influenced global future. The book is full of surprises and mind-shifting observations. I actually couldn't put it down.”—Sherry B. Ortner, UCLA From the introduction: People have many sides, but I will focus here on two. Each of us is a biological organism with a historical personality that together make us a unique individual. But we cannot live outside society which shapes us in unfathomable ways. Human beings must learn to be self-reliant (not self-interested) in small and large ways: no-one will brush your teeth for you or save you from being run over while crossing the street. We each must also learn to belong to others, merging personal identity in a plethora of social relations and categories. Modern ideology insists that being individual and mutual is problematic. The culture of capitalist societies anticipates a conflict between them. Yet they are inseparable aspects of human nature.
Bankers' Magazine, Journal of the Money Market and Commercial Digest
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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