International Finance

Investigative journalist Patrick McGee draws on 200 interviews with former Apple executives and engineers to reveal how Cupertino’s choice to anchor its supply chain in China has increasingly made it vulnerable to the regime’s whims. Both an insider’s historical account and a cautionary tale, Apple in China is the first history of Apple to go beyond the biographies of its top executives and set the iPhone’s global domination within an increasingly fraught geopolitical context.

In June 2020, prominent business and political leaders gathered for the fiftieth annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, under the rubric of "The Great Reset." In the words of WEF founder Klaus Schwab, the Great Reset is a "unique window of opportunity" afforded by the worldwide COVID-19 panic to build "a new social contract" ushering in a utopian era of economic, social, and environmental justice. But beneath their lofty and inspiring words, what are their actual plans?

The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each collapse was followed by a period of tumult: War, civil unrest, or significant damage to the stability of the global economy. Now James Rickards, the acclaimed author of Currency Wars, shows why another collapse is rapidly approaching - and why this time, nothing less than the institution of money itself is at risk.

Featuring all sorts of theoretical and practical gems, Options Trading Simplified: Beginner’s Guide to Make Money Trading Options in 7 Days or Less! explains why it is important to have a risk limiting strategy that protects your capital while optimizing your profit potential. This safety first, step-by-step approach is ideal for beginners and intermediary level traders who want to make money in options trading without losing their nest egg! This book requires no previous knowledge or experience in options or financial trading.

Find tools to help you gain control over your life and over your wealth. Concepts ranging from simple definitions, powerful money management techniques, the right approach, and exact trading psychology needed to explanations of proven profitable trading systems will be covered to help you discover your own profitable trading system.

After a decade of rapid growth, the world’s most celebrated emerging markets are poised to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? To identify the economic stars of the future, we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. As an era of easy money and easy growth comes to a close, China in particular will cool down.

In book 1, you will discover: when to use options trading strategies, low risk options trading strategy for covered calls and naked puts, protective put vs covered call strategies, and more.

One of history's top-selling investment guides - 800,000 copies sold! - is now updated for a new generation of investors.

The rapid development of technology and globalization has changed the leverage points in accumulating wealth: money, meaning and freedom.

In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch - a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor.

Timing the Market: How to Profit in the Stock Market Using the Yield Curve, Market Sentiment, and Cultural Indicators is the first definitive guide to understanding and profiting from the relationship between the stock market and interest rates. It's well established that interest rates significantly impact the stock market. This is the first book that definitively explores the interest rate/stock market relationship and describes a specific system for profiting from the relationship.

It’s true that the very nature of business has changed drastically over the last few decades. Going into business with the same model as you those used as recently as the year 2010 is a completely different ball game when compared to 2022. So, how can you set up your business to make you the most money possible, whilst also losing the least money possible on inventory and brick-and-mortar warehouse spaces?

Seeing the Unseen: Behind Chinese Tech Giants' Global Venturing delves into the fascinating world of Chinese logic that shapes how tech leaders make and implement decisions, many of which are seldom seen outside China.

In this powerful, incisive book, David Pilling reveals the hidden biases of economic orthodoxy and explores the alternatives to GDP, from measures of wealth, equality, and sustainability to measures of subjective well-being. Authoritative, provocative, and eye-opening, The Growth Delusion offers witty and unexpected insights into how our society can respond to the needs of real people instead of pursuing growth at any cost.

Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox’s The Myth of the Rational Market is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk. The book brings to life the people and ideas that forged modern finance and investing, from the formative days of Wall Street through the Great Depression and into the financial calamity of today.

In our increasingly interconnected world, effective communication is the formula for success in any industry. Whether you’re speaking in public, writing an email, or navigating an important negotiation, how you present yourself through language is all-important in today's global business world. In How to Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Anywhere, two New York University professors reveal a new approach to global communication across key performance areas, including effective emailing, public speaking, and negotiation.

With five trillion dollars traded every day, FX dwarfs all other markets. It's a tough market to master - but not as tough as people think. Currency Kings provides the keys anyone can use to unlock the enormous potential of FX. FX guru Ben Robson walks you through the process of developing a sound strategy, creating a competitive edge, scaling your efforts, and managing risk.

Winner Take All is about the commodity dynamics that the world will face over the next several decades. In particular, it is about the implications of China’s rush for resources across all regions of the world. The scale of China’s resource campaign for hard commodities (metals and minerals) and soft commodities (timber and food) is among the largest in history.

Innovation is no longer the exclusive domain of the Silicon Valley elite. Reverse Innovation will open your eyes to the fact that the dynamics of global innovation are changing-and if you want your firm to survive, you'd better pay attention. The gap between rich nations and emerging economies is closing. No longer will innovations travel the globe in only one direction, from developed to developing nations. They will also flow in reverse.

Author Jeremy Rifkin presents an insider's account of the next great economic era: the Third Industrial Revolution, when a new ethic of sustainability will revolutionize the world we live in.