World Finance

The Alpha Masters brings the secretive world of hedge funds into the light of day for the first time. As the authority that the biggest names in the business go to before breaking major news, Ahuja has access to the innermost workings of the hedge fund industry. For the first time, in Alpha Masters, Ahuja provides both institutional and savvy private investors with tangible, analytical insight into the psychology of the trade, the strategies and investment criteria serious money managers use to determine and evaluate their positions, and special guidance on how the reader can replicate this success themselves.

America’s struggling economy needs a better philosophy than the college student’s lament,“I can’t be out of money, I still have checks in my checkbook!” We've tried a government spending spree, and we've learned it doesn't work. Now is the time to rededicate our country to the pursuit of free-market capitalism, before we’re buried under a mound of debt and unfunded entitlements. But how do we navigate between government spending that’s too big to sustain and financial institutions that are "too big to fail?"

Imagine a world in which corporations such as Costco, Nike, BP, and countless others are forming partnerships with environmental and social justice organizations to ensure better stewardship of the Earth and better livelihoods in the developing world. Now, stop imagining - that world is already emerging.

For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only entrenched dictatorships and spread kleptocratic networks, but they've secretly guided U.S. policy without the rest of America even being aware. And now, some of them have begun turning their sights on American democracy itself. These Americans are known as foreign lobbyists, and many of them spent years ushering dictatorships directly into the halls of Washington, all while laundering the reputations of the most heinous regimes in the process.

The first quarter of the new century has seen developments in technology, monetary policy, and the management of large companies that have transformed personal savings and investment around the world. Love it, loathe it, or just not interested in it, this innovation has changed not only the nature of money but our understanding of what it means to invest—whether we want to safeguard our pensions, experiment with personal trading platforms, or simply understand how the markets really work. How to Invest aims to help investors navigate this new world.

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed.

Technology is redefining the value of physical assets: the meaning of location and accessibility, the power of zoning and regulation, the flow of capital and information, and even the notion of scarcity itself. How to make the most of it Rethinking Real Estate provides technology entrepreneurs and real estate professionals with key insights and practical strategies that will enable you to develop innovative solutions, identify risks, evaluate emerging competitors, and transform your investment thesis, project, venture, or career.

The consequences of adopting the cynical but popular worldview are many, including needless pessimism, missed investment opportunities, and - surprisingly - even poorer health. Yet An Embarrassment of Riches provides a powerful antidote. Green begins with a robust survey of the many ways our lives are becoming longer, easier, safer, healthier and more prosperous. He then embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of the ideas and the many men and women - both living and dead - who are still enriching our lives today.

The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out. In The Ecotechnic Future John Michael Greer alerts the listener to possible changes future generations may face as these dwindling fuel supplies lead first to a deindustrial age, then to a society which salvages the remnants of our current plenty, and eventually to a time in which people may learn to live in balance with the environment: an ecotechnic society.

Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as Big Bang, Crash Bang Wallop tells the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world. Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary impact on politics, on style, on technology, on the class system, on questions of public ownership, and on the geography of London.

Looking underneath the cover of globalization, Wood shatters the false narrative of a promised utopia and exposes the true nature of the deception used to promote this new economic order, in this audiobook. Those elite who hate the bedrock of American liberty and its time-tested constitution have pulled out all the stops to destroy both, and it's time for citizens to stand up to reject them. As always, Wood closes with the nature of effective resistance and the tools that can help to achieve success.

Signals is the story of the world economy, told in the language of everyday objects, places and events - from magazine covers and supermarkets to public protests. Pippa Malmgren argues that by being alert to the many signals around us, we can be empowered to deal with the varied troubles and treasures the world economy inevitably brings. Economics is not just maths and data. Perfume and makeup are part of the world economy, too.

Borsa Valori per principianti: come acquisire le conoscenze necessarie nel più breve tempo possibile, per costruire asset affidabili, a lungo termine e generare il massimo rendimento, comprese istruzioni facili ma dettagliate, liste di controllo e spiegazioni minuziose dei termini. Tassi di interesse catastrofici, inflazione dilagante e shock finanziari della pandemia ti tengono sveglio la notte? Vedi i tuoi sudati risparmi sul conto in banca che si stanno inesorabilmente sciogliendo?

La coercizione quotidiana nella ruota del criceto per assicurarsi un sostentamento ti frustra e ti stanca? Desideri una vita libera, in cui i problemi di denaro passino naturalmente in secondo piano? Ti stai chiedendo se c'è un modo che ti dia anche questa libertà assoluta? Allora ecco le ultime notizie: c'è un modo del genere e questa guida ti porterà proprio lì avanti! Perché la libertà finanziaria non si ottiene attraverso ore di straordinario infinite e lavori aggiuntivi, ma si basa sull'intelligenza finanziaria e puoi acquisirla molto facilmente.

Möchten Sie tiefere Einblicke in die Börsenwelt des Daytraders erhalten und die "wirklich" profitablen Strategien der Profis kennen lernen? Wollen Sie von Anfang die typischen Anfängerfehler vermeiden und sofort treffsicher und ohne hohes Risiko an der Börse agieren? Streben Sie nach einem zusätzlichen passiven Einkommen, das ohne großen Aufwand verbunden ist? Dann ist Daytrading genau Ihre zukünftige Anlageform und dieser Ratgeber zeigt Ihnen, wie Ihr Vorhaben von Anfang an ein Riesenerfolg wird! Denn wer ahnungslos ins Geschäft einsteigt, riskiert hohe Verluste.

Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world - one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's 500-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an everyday necessity.

Wie Sie ganz ohne Vorkenntnisse mit Ihren Möglichkeiten effizient und ertragreich Vermögensaufbau betreiben! Inkl. zahlreichen Profitipps und Fachwörterlexikon. Die derzeitige Krise zehrt nicht nur an Ihren Nerven, sondern längst auch an Ihrem Vermögen und Sie sehen mit Sorge Ihre finanzielle Sicherheit schwinden? Sie sehnen sich nach einer Möglichkeit, langfristig und zuverlässig ein finanzielles Polster aufzubauen, das Ihnen für künftige Ausnahmesituationen Sicherheit und Gelassenheit gibt?

L'économie est une mythologie qui désenchante le monde : plus que jamais "lugubre", elle pollue le débat public de ses fausses certitudes et empoisonne l'esprit démocratique. Les mythes économiques contemporains ont pour fonction principale de détourner l'attention des citoyens des véritables enjeux dont ils devraient se soucier et débattre. Nos mythologies économiques sont des mystifications politiques.

The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions.

The chief endowment officers at (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family offices, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds are the leaders in the world of finance. They marshal trillions of dollars on behalf of their institutions and influence how capital flows throughout the world. But these elite investors live outside of the public eye. Across the entire investment industry, few participants understand how these holders of the keys to the kingdom allocate their time and their capital.