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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind...
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A sequel to the best-selling Currency Wars predicts a coming collapse of the monetary system while counseling investors on how to survive it, arguing that the dollar will be at the center of a crisis that will differentiate money from wealth.
" "The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of...
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"New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows...
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The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piñata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at...
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"Drew Havens made a killing for the Rising Fund, which, thanks to his prognostications, was the only hedge operation to anticipate and capitalize on the mortgage crisis of 2008. For Havens, it's always been about the numbers. He sees things others can't, from the collapse of the American real estate market to the multibillion-dollar rise of his ruthless and charismatic boss. Havens is now rich beyond his dreams, but his work at the Rising Fund has...
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Former U.S. marine and Harvard Business School graduate Nicholas Neumann leaves behind everything he holds dear in order to take a job at the United Swiss Bank in Zurich, an institution that he believes is somehow connected to his father's murder seventeen years earlier.
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When his father, a chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a brazen attack on the White House lawn, Bobby Astor, a rising hedge fund manager, untangles a web of lies to reveal a sophisticated plot against the U.S. financial system.
9) The pirate
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The heir to an oil-rich Arab sheikdom is drawn into a global conspiracy of decadence, money, and terror in this gripping tale from the bestselling author. He's known as "the Pirate," a millionaire business tycoon and globetrotting playboy who controls one of the most powerful oil-producing regions in the Middle East. A man of shocking contradictions, he is devoted to his business, his Muslim faith, and to the sensuous pleasures of the Western world....
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"International finance has evolved in all aspects, be it in terms of institutional framework, rules and regulations, standardized operations, innovative financial products or policy framework. International trade and business have helped economies grow and bring prosperity across nations. Hence, the interface between international trade and business and international finance is cohesive. There are various facets of international finance including...
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Exotix Capital Developing Markets Guide. This is the sixth edition, the previous one having been published in February 2011 when the concept of investing in frontier economies was beginning to gain traction again after being derailed by the global financial crisis. A lot has happened since then. This guide is written for the serious frontier market investor, policymaker or academic analyst who is looking to maximise...
13) Black Friday
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When a mysterious army of saboteurs attacks Wall Street and begins an economic war, Caitlin Dillon, the most powerful woman on Wall Street, and Arch Carroll, the federal agent who plays by no rules at all, must stop Operation Black Market at any cost.
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Research in finance volume 34
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Research in Finance seeks to provide a collection of quality research articles that reflect the current and primary issues in financial markets. Contributions include finance theory and financial practice, plus accounting issues such as reporting derivatives positions, reflecting intangible holdings, or predicting financial distress. The volume starts with empirical investigations of the impact from macroeconomic variables upon equity values in emerging...
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""In such a dynamic and complex context, this book provides a valuable analytical contribution to understand the structure and functioning of world finance."--MATTEO ARPE Founder, Chairman and CEO of Sator. Today's economic environment has reached interconnectedness levels never imagined before. People are living in a highly globalized world, where consumption, the production of goods, and the provision of services have become highly integrated. A...
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"Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation as a war reporter studying the 'resource curse,' seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects that followed the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now, in The Finance Curse, revised with chapters exclusive to the American...
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