Town Economics

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world "Meticulously reported, and...

“An utterly delightful peek into the real life of an English village bookshop, as told to us by the owner herself. A must-read for everyone who’s ever felt most at home in a bookstore.” - Julia Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of Bridgerton Based on the popular Substack that Julia...

Kenjiro Tanaka’s pristine SSS-Rank Spirit Spring has transformed the deadly Dread Thicket into a booming settlement, but rapid economic growth breeds an entirely new kind of filth. Enter Lady Isabella, the ruthless heir to the Imperial Trade Consortium, who arrives in Springwater with a singular mission: buy out the Plum Blossom Bathhouse or crush it completely. When Kenjiro stubbornly refuses to compromise his strict hygiene protocols or exploit his loyal customers with exorbitant prices, Isabella constructs the Golden Oasis—a garish, sprawling mega-resort designed to run him out of ...

PORTAL MAINTENANCE: FER SAL This is the 2nd Edition with I hope all the issues cleared up. Thank You Look, if you are looking for a serious, grimdark fantasy about a "Chosen One" fulfilling an ancient prophecy, I am not your author. But if you need a good laugh, interdimensional tax evasion, and weaponized 1970s upholstery? Pull up a chair. My name is Joseph. I'm a bankrupt systems engineer who bought a falling-down estate in rural Alabama for forty-four grand, entirely because the phenomenally misspelled "Fer Sal" sign in the front yard spoke to my soul. Turns out, the previous owners ...

In this essential handbook—a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project—the co-host of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and bestselling author Phil Town. Growing up, the words finance...

The banks didn't crash. They just... closed. "Temporarily." And a Tennessee county woke up to learn that every dollar it had ever saved was a promise nobody was keeping anymore. Marcus Bell runs a wholesale supply store the old way — real goods, deep stock, and a ledger he's kept honest for thirty years. When the dollar dies in a week of bank holidays and frozen cards, Marcus's warehouse becomes the most valuable building in the county... and his ledger becomes something he never planned: the county's new money. But money is trust with a ledger — and there are men in every county who'd ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide “The one economic book you must read now...

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible. This program is read by the author. The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the...

Don’t get mad, get even… Phil Town’s first book, the #1 New York Times bestseller Rule #1, was a guide to stock trading for people who believe they lack the knowledge to trade. But because many people aren’t ready to go from mutual funds directly into trading without understanding...

An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises. “With his signature gut-punching prose, Alexander breaks our hearts as he opens our eyes to America’s deep-rooted sickness and despair by immersing us in the lives of a...

A sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class US cities that passionately argues for reinvestment in people-centered leadership and offers “a welcome reminder of what government can accomplish if given the chance” (San...

A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America—written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark...

A place can keep its buildings, its tools, its stories, even the things it once made, and still lose what mattered most. Ask a Maine town what it makes and the answers come easily: granite, boats, sardines, blueberries, glass. But those are not the hardest things to make. The hardest thing to make is another person who knows how. What We Make Here follows that idea across Hancock County, Maine, from the knowledge carried by the first people on this coast to granite quarries, fishing grounds, workshops, factories, schools, laboratories and the people learning with their hands today. It asks ...

Kellogg in the late 1940s and 50s was a typical American small town complete with high school football and basketball teams, marching band, and anti-Communist clubs; yet its bars, gambling dens, and brothels were entrenched holdovers from a rowdier frontier past. The Bunker Hill Mining Company, the largest employer, paid miners good wages for difficult, dangerous work, while the quest for lead, silver, and zinc denuded the mountainsides and laced the soil and water with contaminants.

In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, offers a compelling analysis of the emergence of these communities and their role in shaping the American economy, beginning in the country's earliest years....

Boiling rivers. $500 power bills. Towns held hostage by a windowless building nobody asked for. That's the headline version of the data center fight happening in your state right now — and it's not entirely wrong. It's also not the whole story. Loud Neighbors pulls apart the biggest claims on both sides of America's fastest-growing land-use fight and checks them against the actual numbers: utility filings, legislative studies, and the public records from towns that said yes, said no, and are still deciding. Inside, you'll find plain-English answers to the questions town halls actually ...

When the guns fell silent in 1865, the South entered a different kind of war — the hard peace. Not the one argued in Congress, but the one lived in kitchens, fields, workshops, schoolrooms, and in the shadow of ruined rail lines, empty markets, and bankrupt towns struggling to rise again. In these pages, you’ll confront questions history books rarely ask: How did ordinary people survive violence, instability, and political conflict when every familiar structure had collapsed? How did freed people, women, veterans, and small entrepreneurs build new institutions with almost no resources? ...

As a dual national with an American father and a Canadian mother, I've lived on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. As a child, we'd drive over Detroit-Windsor's Ambassador Bridge to see my grandparents in Canada. As an adult, my wife Jean and I went in the opposite direction to visit our parents in the United States. Looking back, my life has been one damn thing after another, on both sides of the border. Born in a New York City, I grew up as a country boy fishing and hunting in a small downstate Illinois town called Danville in a dysfunctional family. Like many, the unhappiness in my ...

The Kingdom wants her dead. She’s going to charge them for the privilege. Nia von Eisenwald has survived assassination, heart failure, and the transition to a new world. But winning the throne was the easy part. Now, she has to pay for it. With her father dead and her lands bankrupt, Nia faces a new kind of enemy. Baron Valdemar isn't sending armies; he’s sending lawyers, debt collectors, and economic blockades. He intends to starve Eisenwald into submission. He didn't account for the Engineer. Nia initiates the "Localhost" protocol. If the Empire won't trade with her, she will build an...

Uncover how a modest Roman settlement evolved into a global powerhouse of European history and economic innovation. Whether you are preparing for a trip to northern Italy or seeking an immersive morning commute, this story-driven narrative transforms centuries of urban development into a...