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An introduction to currency covers the history of money around the world, minting coins and printing paper money, and how governments manage a country's currency.
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. There are few indictments of the American banking system as searing as Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It, written by Louis D. Brandeis in 1913. Long considered one of the major muckraking exposés of the Progressive period, it still speaks powerfully to our own times. The book led to the establishment of stringent regulations on the banking system, rules...
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"An insider's unflinching expose of the toxic culture within the Federal Reserve. In the early 2000s, as a Wall Street escapee writing a financial column for the Dallas Morning News, Booth attracted attention for her bold criticism of the Fed's low interest rate policies and her cautionary warnings about the bubbly housing market. Nobody was more surprised than she when the folks at the Dallas Federal Reserve invited her aboard. Figuring she could...
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Get the Summary of Hayden Crabtree's Skip the Flip in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This useful and informative guide will break down all the barriers you have to get started investing in real estate. Skip The Flip teaches you the fundamentals you have to know to be a successful investor.
The system is broken. What was once great advice of going to school, getting good grades, saving...
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2012: Say good-bye to your beloved Benjamins, because the world is going cashless. So says David Wolman, and in The End of Money, he explores the drastic implications. How is it happening? What's at stake? Why does it matter? Each chapter of this timely and fascinating audiobook focuses on a specific aspect of the coming cashlessness. Its cast of compelling characters includes an end-times fundamentalist...
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You've been trading for a couple years, but instead of making money, you're frustrated by a lack of results. You've tried everything-newsletters, programs, investing gurus-but nothing has worked. No matter how much you learn or what you try, you're not getting ahead. In fact, you're losing money. For the sake of your sanity and your principal, you'll have to quit trading if you can't find an approach that works.
Here's the truth: trading requires...
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#1 Zig Ziglar is advising you to quit sales if you can't handle the abuse and rejection that comes with it. You should get into sales because your heart and head won't allow you to do anything else.
#2 The sales profession has a high turnover rate because of the lack of commitment among new recruits. However, this is changing, and the public is gaining respect for the true sales professional.
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#1 I was five years away from 40, and I was miserable. I was selling something I didn't care about and had no desire to keep doing. I knew there was more, but I felt stuck. I had thought politics was it, but my dream had died and taken my hope with it.
#2 I was constantly restless, and I would constantly be thinking about different career paths. I would often dream...
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#1 The VCR led to the creation of the video store and eventually Blockbuster. But, had the studios had their way, it would never have happened. The studios believed copyright laws granted them complete control over their content, which included preventing citizens from recording programs on VCRs for private use. But in 1984, the Supreme Court overruled the lower court...
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#1 Value investing is the process of buying securities only when their market prices are significantly below their calculated intrinsic value. It is a simple process, but it requires a lot of discipline.
#2 There are two types of fundamental investors: macrofundamentalists, who are concerned with broad economic factors that affect the entire market, and microfundamentalists,...
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#1 Index funds are a type of mutual fund that mimic the performance of a specific index. They are designed to simply reflect the value of a group of investments. There are indexes that track just about everything, and more are being created every year.
#2 Stocks, bonds, and mutual funds are all forms of investing. Stocks represent shares of ownership in a company. Bond...
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Presently, the pay system used for U.S. postal employees to record clockable hours is complex and difficult to comprehend, even by employees, as well as supervisors. C.H.A.P.P.S. is a simplified pay system designed for the postal payroll system and with C.H.A.P.P.S. there is no need to cut jobs at the post office. Larry Pinson, Sr. is a retired postal employee, and created C.H.A.P.P.S. after undertaking an endeavor to understand the postal service...
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First came the financial and debt crisis in Greece, then government financing difficulties and rescue programs in Ireland in 2010 and Portugal in 2011. Before long, Italy and Spain were engulfed by financial contagion as well. Finally in 2012, the European Central Bank pledged to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the euro area with purchases of government bonds, a step that achieved impressive results, according to William R. Cline in this important...
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In The Structural Foundations of Monetary Policy, Michael D. Bordo, John H. Cochrane, and Amit Seru bring together discussions and presentations from the Hoover Institution's annual monetary policy conference. The conference participants discuss long-run monetary issues facing the world economy, with an emphasis on deep, unresolved structural questions. They explore vital issues affecting the Federal Reserve, the United States' central bank. They...
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#1 Theodore Roosevelt was elected president in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley. He was governor of New York when McKinley selected him to replace his first vice president, who died in 1899 from a string of heart ailments.
#2 Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1898, despite having little political experience. He was called the cyclone assemblyman...
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Do you have absolute faith in your current banking system? If the system crashes today, what will you do? What are your options? War is coming is a comprehensive book that inspires readers to become proactive with thinking outside the financial box and looking beyond the traditional system of banking. So what should we all consider? Cryptocurrencies! This book provides insight into the nature of cryptocurrencies (with a focus on Bitcoin) and how it...
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#1 EVT Restaurant is a very nice place. It was the first time Rick had been there, and he was greeted by the enthusiastic greeting of his lunch companion, Michelle. She had been friends with the hostess, Katherine, who had told her about Rick.
#2 Rick was meeting with a lender named Michelle to discuss his business problems. He had been having a hard time selling properties lately,...
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Not many of us are familiar with the bitcoins. In this book you will learn about some basics of bitcoins and their use. A brief overview of their merits and demerits is presented plus a comparison with the conventional currency systems and regulations. Bitcoin is a virtual, digital currency just like conventional currency but not printed. This model of currency is making its headway in the internet market because of ease and least regulations. While...
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