Organized Money

Black Market Billions blows the lid off the world's fastest-growing illicit industry: organized retail crime. Hitha Prabhakar reveals how criminals with ties to terrorist groups around the world are committing huge product thefts, and using the profits to fund terrorist acts. Prabhakar connects the dots and follows the money - from consumers dying for a deal to terrorist cells eager to do the killing.

From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? The Age of Acquiescence seeks to solve that mystery.

Whether you are actively pursuing an online business or just using the internet for pleasure, it is easy to get entangled in non-important activities. Take a look at how much time you spend on social sites like Facebook and Twitter. How often do you check your email? While these things sound trivial they can really eat into your time. It is so easy to log into one of your social sites and get caught up in a conversation. What was supposed to only take 10 minutes ends up taking an hour or more.