THE EIGHT PILLARS OF PROSPERITY [Annotated, Unabridged Deluxe Edition] The Complete James Allen Classic Including BONUS Entire Audio Narration** Featuring Dynamic Chapter Navigation & Top Quality Professional Formatting for a Premium Reading Experience.ABOUT THIS BOOK IN THE AUTHOR'S OWN WORDS:It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the p...

Mortgages dominate financial headlines in 2026 as the 30-year fixed rate hovers near 6. Four percent, yet few borrowers pause to ask why a handful of institutions hold such sway over the cost of borrowing in the first place.This book supplies that deeper layer of context.Eustace Clarence Mullins spent nineteen months inside the Library of Congress assembling archival documents, legislative records, and scarce pamphlets - including those published by the Ame...

In this compelling set of interviews, the intellectual discusses contemporary threats to democracy, from economic inequality to the Trump presidency.In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the world we are leaving to our grandchildren": one imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current system is incapable of dealing with these threats, he argues, it's up to...

A lively, illustrated, trivia-packed volume about the subject that makes the world go round.Ever made a fast buck? How about traded cowrie shells for a bride or paid for gum with a $10,000 bill? This entertaining and information-packed miscellany explains our fascination with money and how it has shaped our world.Vintage photographs and artwork illustrate surprising facts, lists, and trivia about forgotten financial catastrophes and famous bank robbers, the h...

Research in macroeconomics in the last thirty years has featured, almost exclusively on two characteristics: an emphasis on the microfoundations of macroeconomics and secondly, intertemporal economics, that is, the behavior of economic actors over time. Curiously, textbooks in intermediate macroeconomics have been very slow to adopt these traits.The aim of this book is to bring intermediate instruction in macroeconomics fully into line with the direction taken by the research commu...

Litecoin was founded to act as a Bitcoin alternative to make up for its perceived shortcomings—it was developed to be “lightweight” and be more plentiful than Bitcoin. Litecoin also has almost zero payment cost and facilitates payments approximately four times faster than Bitcoin.Table of ContentsLitecoin IntroductionCryptocurrency Wallet GuideHow to Buy LitecoinMine Litecoin and Other AltcoinsA Bett...

"From investing in education and affording a home to choosing the right credit products and adequately saving for retirement, Operation Money offers military-specific advice to achieving financial stability." --Michael E. O'Neill, Chairman, Citigroup Inc., First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1971When it comes to money, military service members and their families face financial challenges that civilians simply don’t. While serving on active duty, members of the military are typically ask...

The Philosophy of Wealth is a book that views lifes problems and decisions from a financial perspective. The author, Hal Koger, believes that its the way you approach life that determines if you will or will not achieve financial independence in your lifetime. He has presented his common-sense thinking in this appealing, easy-to-read book.This is not an exclusive philosophy of life, but it can augment your own personal philosophy, and offer thought provoking ways of dealin...

The biggest corporate failure ever in British history occurred in 2008 with very little forewarning. The management of HBOS, a major national bank with a long history of prudence prior to the merger in 2001, were allowed to act incompetently. Auditors and regulators failed to act, ignoring a key senior whistleblower, and the ‘competitive’ stock market failed to spot management failure in time.This book is the first academic study of this collapse, uncovering some surprising evidenc...

Recent failures and rescues of large banks have resulted in colossal costs to society. In wake of such turmoil a new banking union must enable better supervision, pre-emptive coordinated action and taxpayer protection. While these aims are meritorious they will be difficult to achieve. This book explores the potential of a new banking union in Europe.This book brings together leading experts to analyse the challenges of banking in the European Union. While not all contributors agre...

The Canadian experience with a floating exchange rate regime can shed some light on the question of whether A question of current interest in many parts of the world is whether with growing economic integration among groups of countries makes a fixed exchange rate, or even a common currency, becomes more desirable. This paper looks at the lessons that one may draw from tThe Canadian experience, with a floating exchange rate regime, especially since the inception of the 1989 U.S.-Canada Fre...