Critical Finance

You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything—from missiles to microwaves—runs on chips, including cars, smartphones, the stock market, even the electric grid. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower, but America’s edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe taking over manufacturing.

In an accessible Q&A format, biblical counselor and former financial consultant Jim Newheiser presents financial wisdom that is grounded in faithful biblical exegesis and rooted in sound theology. How can you create and balance a budget? How can you get out of debt? What insurance do you need? He answers these questions and more, providing a go-to resource for laypeople and those who counsel them.

Power in the modern world—military, economic, geopolitical—is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. In Chip War economic historian Chris Miller recounts the fascinating sequence of events that led to the United States perfecting chip design, and how faster chips helped defeat the Soviet Union (by rendering the Russians’ arsenal of precision-guided weapons obsolete).

You cannot be rich, at least not with your job as a nurse. Everyone tells you this, and you have gradually come to believe that maybe getting wealthy has been preserved for people in other careers–with bigger paychecks.

Loneliness has become the defining condition of the 21st century. It is damaging our health, our wealth, and our happiness and even threatening our democracy. Never has it been more pervasive or more widespread, but never has there been more that we can do about it.

Whether you're a veteran property owner or just starting out, here you'll uncover the real estate expertise you need to select the finest land for your new home.

According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong? What if, from Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public sector has been the boldest and most valuable risk taker of all?

Just as grownups do not believe in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, or Santa Claus, "Investing adults" know that there is no such creature as the Stock-picking Fairy or the Market-timing Fairy. Further, there is no Risk Fairy who will write you cheap options that will protect your stock holdings against loss. Investing adults are familiar with Gene Fama, Zvi Bodie, Jack Bogle, and Burton Malkiel, and understand that a mean variance optimizer does not blend vegetables. In other words, this series is not for beginners.

The idea of Financial Freedom seems to be an elusive dream to many that are currently operating under the pressures of financial indebtedness. This vicious cycle has left many floundering for survival and others suffering from the consequences of its imprisonment. We recognise that financial indebtedness is a major challenge that is going to require both tactical and philosophical changes to manage and overcome the threat it poses. Nicholas Robertson and Valentine Rodney are inviting you to be a part of the company of the diligent that will utilise the wisdom of the scriptures coupled with ...

Outraged by the downward spiral of American intellect and culture, Michael R. LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's best-selling phenomenon Blink, which celebrated impulse thinking over factual knowledge or critical analysis. If best-selling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that sharp, incisive reasoning is on the decline, leading our society to incompetence and failure.

Bitcoin is not simply a digital currency; it's an agent of global change. Leveraging blockchain technology, Bitcoin provides a decentralized financial system in which you retain total control of your assets - offering unparalleled transparency, security, and efficiency that reshape everything from daily transactions to international trade - giving everyone access to financial empowerment globally. 8 major trends are leading the charge to an exciting tomorrow.

As a teen, do you feel like every possible problem has decided to gang up on you? From bodily changes to school workloads, restrictive home rules, and peer pressure. Are you convinced your mental health is about to crumble at any moment, and are stress and anxiety building up? Or, are you a parent frustrated about not knowing how to help your teen? Everyone knows how topsy-turvy a teen's world can get and how that can make life difficult for parents as well.

En este magnífico libro, los autores aplican su amplia experiencia en la economía de América Latina a deconstruir los sofismas del capitalismo financiero global, sus dramáticas consecuencias para los pueblos, el ecosistema y la convivencia democrática. Una valiosa contribución al conocimiento de las especulaciones del actual capitalismo financiero en el conjunto de los países iberoamericanos –España y Portugal incluidos–, de la necesidad de evitarlas o de hacerles frente, de las respuestas que articulan los pueblos que no se resignan a sufrir sus efectos perversos.

After advising hundreds of clients over the last 20 years, investment advisor and financial guru Jenny Jones has decided to compile the five most critical mistakes that retirees continue to make headed towards their retirement exit. He thinks planning for retirement can be difficult, but it does not have to be with the right tools and resources. Jenny's mission of educating 500,000 retirees before he retires is an ambitious one, but he thinks the newly launched my retirement exit learning network will assist in that effort.

Increase your wealth by understanding the seven factors that influence financial success. Self-made billionaires and well-off individuals seldom become wealthy for the reasons we think. In fact, it is a combination of factors that propel individuals to extraordinary fortunes. For example, country of residence, social class at birth, gender, race, career aspirations, and so on. Wallet Full of Money is about self-made affluent individuals, particularly billionaires, in America and abroad.