Credit Market

What if you could get an extra $100, $200, or even $500 deposited directly into your brokerage account within the next 24 hours? That might sound impossible...but with credit spreads...it’s not just a possibility...it’s a certainty. Because with credit spreads, every single trade pays you when you enter it. And you can use these to generate safe returns, no matter what happens to your stock. Unlike regular options trading, you don’t even need to guess the direction of a stock, or what price it will be in a month. You only have to guess a price range.

The Money Formula takes you inside the engine room of the global economy to explore the little-understood world of quantitative finance, and show how the future of our economy rests on the backs of this all-but-impenetrable industry. Written not from a post-crisis perspective - but from a preventative point of view - this book traces the development of financial derivatives from bonds to credit default swaps, and shows how mathematical formulas went beyond pricing to expand their use to the point where they dwarfed the real economy.

Plastic surgery has become the answer for many Americans, and in American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we now spend over $12 billion annually on procedures like liposuction, face-lifts, tummy tucks, and boob jobs.