Community Finance

Life was good for Jorge Newbery. A high school dropout and serial entrepreneur, he had built a real estate empire of over 4,000 apartments across the USA. Taking risks and working tirelessly were the ingredients to his rise. But, he took one risk too many. An ice storm on Christmas Eve 2004 triggered his collapse. He was maligned, publicly shamed, and financially gutted - even arrested. He lost everything and ended up $26 million in debt.

In this groundbreaking ethnographic analysis of crypto economies and their global markets and communities, Koray Caliskan offers an inside view of how cryptocurrencies are made and traded. He argues that cryptocurrency should be understood as "data money," a historically novel money type, created as the right to send data privately over an accounting infrastructure called blockchain.

Like many Americans, Newbery struggled with debt. But unlike most people, he owed more than $26 million. Creditors swarmed after a natural disaster devastated his multi-illion-dollar business. The stress was crushing. He needed a way out - and what he discovered will amaze you.

Ben Price reveals that our constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us, and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental problems - and what we can do about it. Many of today’s most serious issues - homelessness, gun violence, fracking, prison privatization, predatory lending, and many more - resist resolution because the “rights of property” undermine the rights of people.

Renewable energy is good for your wallet. Those who see that opportunity are already seizing it … all the way to the bank. Green Is Good is a no-nonsense guide to how you, the average American, can easily incorporate clean energy and energy efficiency into your daily life and in the process save money, make money, and help wean your community off fossil fuels.

Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot like the way back — back to strong local economies, back to resilient, tight-knit communities, back to the land and work that is real. As we chart our course through these uncertain times, we are hungry for inspiration.

What if you knew how to borrow money you didn’t have to pay back? For real estate developers, the strikes might feel against you; with land, material costs, and interest rates all rising. Thankfully, there’s a smarter way to structure real estate development projects through the borrowing of construction funding that will be repaid by others. Special district financing offers a unique opportunity to those looking for a smarter path.

Millions of Americans today are mired in unaffordable debt. While breaking the chains of debt may feel like an insurmountable problem, a debt-free life is not out of reach. Jorge Newbery was once $26 million in debt. He needed a way out. When one of his creditors made a sloppy legal mistake, he battled them all the way to the Missouri Court of Appeals - and won. Newbery then applied what he learned to his other debts. One after another, his debts were either settled or gone forever.

Your way of looking at Wealth and how to build it all starts within your mind, with your beliefs and the rules that you have around how to build wealth. It is not until you do some work within your own mindset and debunk the limiting beliefs that you have, that you too can break free and reach the wealth you are desiring to achieve. It is true that only a small percentage are able to reach this, but have you ever stopped and wondered why it is they can achieve so well?

You will find this audiobook very interesting to listen. This audiobook is very educative and effective audiobook, it will give you very good and reasonable tips, advice, and tricks that will make you succeed in your business and at the same time help the community at large. The target audience for this audiobook are people who are searching for real estate investing books, self-help entrepreneurship type books, and anyone looking for information on short-term rentals, vacation rentals, and Airbnb businesses and investing.

Statistics show that about six percent of recent college graduates are unemployed. They are among the ever-increasing number of adults struggling with student loans, which now stands at a jaw-dropping 45 million. How can you increase your chances of not falling into the same predicament? The best way is to establish income streams that can support you throughout (and beyond) your education. Not only will this provide you with a cushion against unemployment or insufficient funds, but it will also be your springboard to financial independence.