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Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts, and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen and why some have catastrophic economic, social, and political consequences while others have actually benefited society.

First published in 1936, Keynes’ ideas had evolved during the difficulties following World War 1 in Europe, and the US crash and the Depression of the 1920s-'30s and the misery of mass unemployment. He deplored the situation where a few individuals or companies stored massive wealth while vast numbers experienced poverty and insecurity (his alarm bells ring today!) and sought to promote initiatives where governments could intervene with social projects to keep money fluctuating.

The answer to the question that everyone should be asking. Everyone talks about the economy, worries about it, and are dependent on it. But how many can describe what it is? What its purpose is? Can you? How can we make the economy better if most do not have a clue what it is? Why such low interest rates? How does it happen? Who benefits? What is debt? How is it created? Why is it created? Who benefits? What is wealth, and what happens when not enough is created?

"Le Carre remains far in front in his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive." -Publishers Weekly Le Carre's Panama is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and corruption. It is also...

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and...

"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in...

The Last Prophet is a novel based on the extraordinary life of the prophet Muhammad, one-time shepherd and outcast revolutionary. This desert master’s discipline and principles would later become the basis for Islam, which today claims two billion followers.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the world’s most innovative thinkers explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. “Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the...

THE REAL COST OF INFLATION ON A COUNTRY can be best seen not through government-sanctioned data points circulated throughout the corporate sponsored media, but in the financial, physical, and mental health of its citizenry.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the...

In A Decent Life, May leads listeners through the traditional philosophical bases of a number of arguments about what ethics asks of us, then he develops a more reasonable and achievable way of thinking about them, one that shows us how we can use philosophical insights to participate in the complicated world around us. He explores how we should approach the many relationships in our lives - with friends, family, animals, people in need - through the use of a more forgiving, if no less fundamentally serious, moral compass.

Today’s newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including “antiracism,” intersectionality, open borders, and critical race theory. How did this come to be? It all has to do with who our news media is written by—and who it is written for. In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon reveals how American journalism underwent a status revolution over the twentieth century—from a blue-collar trade to an elite profession.

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework.

Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how...

Are you a leader feeling the pressure of the AI revolution but unsure where to begin? You're not alone. Many executives experience a mix of FOMO and uncertainty about artificial intelligence—knowing it's essential but overwhelmed by the complexity and jargon. Now available as an audiobook, this guide is your ultimate roadmap to breaking through those barriers and confidently leveraging AI to fuel your success—all delivered in a clear and engaging narration designed to make learning effortless and enjoyable. This guide breaks down the complexities of AI into bite-sized pieces.

El capital de Karl Marx (1818-1883) es una obra clave para entender el desarrollo del comunismo en el siglo XX, la naturaleza del capitalismo, y también la situación geopolítica en la que se encuentra el mundo moderno.

Pasta, guita, plata, parné, duros. Da igual cómo lo llamemos, pero lo cierto es que el dinero importa ahora más que nunca. En El triunfo del dinero Niall Ferguson demuestra que la historia de las finanzas es el trasfondo de toda la Historia. ¿Cuándo pasó el dinero de metal a papel? ¿Por qué los tipos de interés suben y bajan como un yoyó? ¿Por qué la gente nunca aprende que las burbujas bursátiles siempre acaban estallando? ¿Por qué los seguros ya no son la mejor manera de protegerse contra el riesgo?

El empresario multimillonario Ricardo B. Salinas—quien compró su primer Bitcoin a $200—comparte las lecciones monetarias duramente aprendidas y transmitidas a través de cuatro generaciones. Tras sobrevivir a la devastadora hiperinflación de México, Salinas fue testigo directo de cómo el dinero fiduciario destruye la riqueza, corrompe la sociedad y despoja a las personas comunes de su futuro.

La llegada del coronavirus ha sido tan solo el acelerador de un proceso inevitable en la evolución del Sistema Capitalista. Así lo explica en este audiolibro el profesor Santiago Niño-Becerra. Con la claridad y contundencia que le caracterizan, sitúa la actual incertidumbre económica en la larga historia del Capitalismo. Y también anuncia lo que está por venir: una nueva forma de Capitalismo más deshumanizado.

Tan concienzudo como alarmante, "Los planes del Club Bilderberg para España" es un ensayo de investigación de la autora Cristina Martín en el que repasa la historia más reciente y turbulenta de nuestro país desde el punto de vista de una de las sociedades secretas que maneja la geopolítica y el juego de poderes desde las sombras: el Club Bilderberg.

Colombia se encuentra en una encrucijada existencial. Las viejas fórmulas políticas y económicas están, simplemente, agotadas. La respuesta, sostiene Alejandro Salazar, se encuentra en una disciplina inesperada: la estrategia. Ahora, por primera vez, el aclamado estratega aplica su revolucionaria «estrategia emergente» al desafío colombiano. El resultado es un manifiesto: una hoja de ruta que, basada en nuestros aprendizajes, logros y dilemas, plantea los elementos de una estrategia para forjar una nación relevante y ganadora en el siglo XXI.

¿Sos de esas personas que tienen curiosidad y se han preguntado mas de una vez si vale la pena o no comprar oro y que tan confiable puede ser al momento de crear un activo? Si es asi, sigue leyendo hasta el final. Comúnmente, las personas piensan que las inversiones son solo para los ricos, y mas aún si estamos hablando de oro, el material mas fino y valorizado del mercado a lo largo de la historia. Sin embargo esto no es mas que una creencia y en este libro te demostraremos el porque. Si bien invertir en oro no genera ingresos semi pasivos si, que funcionan como protección a nuestra ...

Graeber expone una historia alternativa a la aparición del dinero y los mercados, y analiza cómo la deuda ha pasado de ser una obligación económica a una obligación moral. Desde el inicio de los primeros imperios agrarios, los humanos han usado elaborados sistemas de crédito para vender y comprar bienes, antes incluso de la invención de la moneda. Es hoy, transcurridos cinco mil años, cuando por primera vez nos encontramos ante una sociedad dividida entre deudores y acreedores, con instituciones erigidas con la voluntad única de proteger a los prestamistas.

Las consecuencias económicas de la paz es un análisis profético sobre las repercusiones económicas de la Primera Guerra Mundial y los errores cometidos en la Conferencia de Paz de París en 1919. Keynes argumenta que las condiciones impuestas a Alemania llevarían a un resentimiento duradero y a futuros conflictos. Su obra desafía las políticas económicas predominantes de la época y advierte sobre las devastadoras consecuencias de imponer reparaciones excesivas a los países derrotados.