Global Finance

Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change gives a voice - backed by statistics, real-life stories, and incontrovertible evidence - to the millions of "deplorable" Americans skeptical about the multibillion dollar "climate change" complex, whose claims have time and time again been proven wrong.

Cities face accelerating climate risk, aging infrastructure, and governance systems designed for a world that no longer exists. Urban Planning and Resilient Infrastructure provides the analytical framework planners, policy professionals, and administrators need to understand and address these converging pressures. - Understand how systems thinking reframes urban infrastructure from discrete assets to interdependent networks where failure cascades across sectors - Analyze climate risk assessment methodologies and their translation into capital programming and land-use planning decisions - ...

From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. “I love the book… It reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing.” (Michael...

"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them." —John...

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last 70 years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times.

Build a freer global life without creating tax confusion behind the scenes. For digital nomads, remote founders, freelancers, consultants, creators, and location-independent professionals, earning from anywhere can feel exciting, but it can also create serious questions. Where are you actually a tax resident? How many days can you stay in one country? Does forming an LLC or offshore company really help? What records should you keep if an audit ever happens?

Drawing in part on his own experiences, including with policymakers and world leaders, Kenneth Rogoff animates the remarkable postwar run of the dollar—how it beat out the Japanese yen, the Soviet ruble, and the euro—and the challenges it faces today from crypto and the Chinese yuan, the end of reliably low inflation and interest rates, political instability, and the fracturing of the dollar bloc.

Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right, combined with aid from rich countries. But anthropologist Jason Hickel argues that this approach misses the broader political forces at play. Global poverty - and the growing divide between "developing" and "developed" countries - has to do with how the global economy has been designed over the course of 500 years. Global inequality doesn't just exist; it has been created.

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD “A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to...

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...

As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude Volatility explains how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era.

"David McWilliams is a terrifically energetic narrator with a perfect Irish lilt."—Kirkus In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money—from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley. This program...

Rigged Rules. Your Move: Decode and Defy. The global financial system masquerades as scientific precision—central banks tweaking rates, treasuries balancing sheets—but it's an archaic house of cards, built on political whims, not thermodynamic laws. Crises aren't accidents; they're baked-in outputs of fiat's infinite debt engine, eroding your savings via hidden entropy: inflation as regressive tax, bubbles as malinvestment traps. If Mastering the Money Mindset armored your psychology against FOMO and loss aversion, The Archaic Game of Money exposes the rigged board. Ashton Reid—...

A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks. For over half a century, Banco Popular was one of...

START AND GROW AN IMPORT EXPORT BUSINESS WITH CHATGPT What if you could use artificial intelligence to research products, find suppliers, identify buyers, analyze markets, improve business communication, and build an international trading business faster than ever before? International trade has traditionally been viewed as a complex business reserved for large companies with extensive resources and global networks. Today, artificial intelligence is changing that reality. This practical guide shows entrepreneurs, importers, exporters, traders, business owners, consultants, and professionals...

Stop staring at a blank screen and wondering what to ask ChatGPT. If you are an importer, exporter, trader, sourcing professional, entrepreneur, consultant, or business owner, this book gives you a practical library of ready to use AI prompts designed specifically for international trade. Import Export Prompts with ChatGPT contains more than 1,400 ready to use AI prompts, frameworks, and workflows that help you research products, analyze markets, find suppliers, identify buyers, improve sales outreach, manage logistics, strengthen trade finance activities, and grow your business. Artificial...

Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism, and the global economy. From Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Thomas Piketty's best-seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, here are the great books and seminal ideas, clarified and illuminated for all.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Advance copies of Ray Dalio’s new book about how countries go broke have become a hot read in Washington.” —The New York Times “This book is a gift to humanity….Ray provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity.”...

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar...