From the author of the bestselling The Shadow Lenders comes Emeric Corvin's most urgent investigation yet.Silver was never supposed to matter this much.For decades it sat in the background — a monetary relic, a jewelry metal, a footnote in commodity reports. That era is gone. Today, silver is the hidden load-bearing wall of the green transition and the data economy. It's in every solar panel, every electric vehicle, every 5G tower, every AI data center humming away in a ser...

If you’ve ever read a philosophy paper and wondered, “Did they really need that many syllables to say absolutely nothing?”—this book is for you.Sophia Anne Blackwell, the wildly irreverent creator of the Cogito Ergo Nope! series, returns with her most hilariously scathing book yet: a no-holds-barred takedown of philosophy’s greatest (and most obscurantist) offenders. From the ancient Greeks who invented making things harder than they need to be, to French theorists who turned not m...

For 2,500 years, Western civilization's brightest minds have been having spectacularly terrible ideas and convincing everyone else they're profound wisdom. From Plato's reality-denying Forms to postmodernism's truth-denying everything, philosophers have turned the simple act of being human into an impossibly complicated nightmare of bad theories and worse consequences. This book is your hilarious, savage, and surprisingly educational tour through philosophy's greatest disasters: Why Plato ...

Written before the crisis. Published as it arrives.In early 2026, private credit markets began showing the exact stress fractures this book warned about. The $2+ trillion shadow banking system that regulators quietly worried about is now making headlines. If you are trying to understand what is happening, and what comes next, this is the book that mapped it before it broke.Private credit was supposed to fix the last crisis. Instead of fragile derivatives and securitized mor...