Bank Society

Reclusive billionaire Aiden Royce has built his empire on secrets, power, and a refusal to let anyone get too close. After a failed kidnapping attempt, his team hires Damian Rodriguez, an ex-special forces operative with a reputation for being ruthless, to protect him. Damian's quiet intensity unsettles Aiden, but he doesn’t realize Damian’s devotion goes beyond professional duty. Damian has been following Aiden’s career—and his life—for years, developing an obsession that borders on dangerous. As threats close in, so does their proximity, and Aiden starts to notice Damian’s ...

Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.

In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and Wi-Fi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet.

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are being marketed as the pinnacle of financial modernization—promising convenience, inclusion, and streamlined payments. But beneath the glossy mockups and cheerful user-experience demos lies a far more sinister agenda: the total overhaul of money itself into an instrument of centralized control. In The Dark Future of CBDCs, seasoned analyst Alex Morgan—sardonic, blunt, and uncompromising—peels back the veneer of progress to reveal how programmable currency can be weaponized to monitor, manipulate, and ultimately dictate every facet of your ...

Before Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation of loosely regulated banks saturated the early American republic with upward of 10,000 unique and legal bank notes. In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how ordinary Americans accumulated and wielded the financial knowledge required to navigate interpersonal bank note transactions.

This book is about the problems of the US economy and the imminent collapse of the U.S. Dollar and its dire consequences for the US economy and the world. It is also about the corruption in government, economics and social order that led to this point. Also it is about survival, how to make it through this perhaps most trying period in the history of the United States. Also it is about the ancient wisdom of life that allowed an ancient civilization to grow beyond the destructive corruptions of ignorance and power so that the people of today may gain insight into the nature of their ...

Psmith and his friend Mike are sent by their fathers to work in the City. But work is the last thing on Psmith's mind; surely there are more interesting things to do with the day than spend it in a bank? Unfortunately the natives aren't conducive to his socialising within work hours, but all's fair in love and work as the monocled Old Etonian, with a little grudging help from Mike, begins to rope in allies in order to reform the bank manager and make him A Decent Member of Society.

The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250-year-long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we work, and the way we interact. The coming Augmented Age, however, promises a level of disruption, behavioral shifts, and changes that are unparalleled. While consumers today are camping outside of an Apple store waiting to be one of the first to score a new Apple Watch or iPhone, the next generation of wearables will be able to predict if we're likely to have a heart attack and recommend a course of action.

Ultimately, this writing is made to help all families deal with the attack from the inside that will eventually cause a complete separation, having no boundaries in place for the child(ren). This leads to putting the child in the direction of constant battles to comprehend why their life is no longer at its best but has become increasingly abnormal. The Pharaohian and Herodian syndrome will make ways to constantly divide, change, and take away what should be given to the child in every family--unconditional love.

Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the 18th century. As European ships ventured across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, discovery bloomed. Bounties of new plants were brought back, and their arrival meant much more than improved flowerbeds - it offered a new scientific frontier that would transform Europe’s industry, medicine, eating and drinking habits, and even fashion.

This newly launched report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.

Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and even bankers themselves have long taken an active interest in regulating the industry.