The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic stability at risk.If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES, NPR, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR**“Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American corporation.” —Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Boo...

「這是一場長期的崩盤，這些帳我們都還沒付清！」本書揭露聯準會跨越紅線的決策內情，細數從全球金融風暴到量化寬鬆撒錢救市，如何助長高風險投資，造成難以衡量的長期金融風險與社會動盪★為什麼聯準會升息會引發銀行倒閉連鎖風暴？銀行真的已經大到不能倒？★為什麼股市、房價持續發燒，但中產階級的薪資跟存款卻不斷縮水？★美國離準會的貨幣寬鬆政策，如何隨著跨國資本移動，影響全世界？．一九一三年到二○○八年，聯準會逐步提高貨幣供給，從五十億美元慢慢增至八千四百七十億美元。．二○○八年底到二○一○年初，聯準會創造出一．二兆美元，創造出來的新資金相當於之前百年的總和。．二○二○年新冠疫情來襲，聯準會為了救市，在短短兩個月內挹注了等於過去三百年的資金量。「美國仰賴聯準會處理經濟問題，就是仰賴一套錯得離譜的工具。聯準會挹注的資金，只會加大美國贏家跟輸家之間的差距，醞釀出更嚴重的動盪不安。」《撒錢之王》說出一個讓人震驚但又引人入勝的故事，透過一位試...

What if feelings had weight?Eden is a bright and creative child who loves drawing colorful rainbows, laughing with friends, and playing games at school. Life feels light and joyful-until one week, when everything begins to change.A small comment here. A laugh there. A missing pencil box.At first, it doesn't seem like much.But to Eden, it feels like something heavier is building.She begins to imagine tiny pebbles appearing in her backpack-each one rep...

The collapse of communism, the rise of identity politics, and struggles over global governance have combined to create new challenges for the Left: How to do justice to legitimate claims for multiculturalism and democratization without abandoning the Left's historic-and still indispensable-commitment to economic equality? How to broaden the understanding of injustice by adding cultural and political insult to economic injury?Adding Insult to Injury tracks the debate sparke...

Das intime Porträt einer LegendeDichter, Songwriter und eine der prägendsten Figuren der Musikgeschichte: Leonard Cohen hat Musikgeschichte geschrieben. Christophe Lebold, der Cohen persönlich nahestand, legt nun die definitive Biografie vor. Basierend auf zwanzig Jahren Recherche und privaten Begegnungen zeichnet er Cohens Weg von Montreal über Hydra bis ins Zen-Kloster nach.Lebold zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie Cohen existenzielle Themen wie Liebe, Verlust und G...

In Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, Alain Locke-the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, America's most famous African American pragmatist, the cultural referent for Renaissance movements in the Caribbean and Africa-is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world. The contributors to this collection compare and contrast Locke's views on values, tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and American and world...

Leonard Cohen ha puntato in alto: voleva essere contemporaneamente tutti gli eroi biblici. Come Giacobbe, ha combattuto con gli angeli. Come Davide, ha cantato salmi e sedotto le donne. Come Abramo, si è spostato di luogo in luogo, restando ovunque uno straniero. Nel tentativo di immortalare le sue idee, le sue riflessioni, la sua filosofia, per vent'anni Christophe Lebold ha ripercorso i passi di Leonard Cohen in cerca delle sue tracce: Montreal, dove era nato, poi New York, dove si è tra...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography, 2025“Leonard Cohen is a literary masterpiece — the seminal, comprehensive biography of a multitalented man who wrote more than his share of literary masterpieces himself.” — Foreword, Starred Review“With plenty of photographs, including of Cohen at his dapper best, this is a book to get lost in.” — Booklist, Starred ReviewAn i...

A mind shattered by intergalactic war.An abyssal gate and its daemonic passengers.The day Los Angeles became our planet.In this debut collection of short, flash, and microfiction fragments, the wondrous intrudes on everyday life and asks how different the two truly are. Characters emerge, disappear, reappear in monstrous form. Narrators deceive, lie about their deception. Here are fifty-four science fiction and fantasy tales that promise t...

In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections, featuring the editors and writers of the celebrated n+1, as well as some of the world's leading radical thinkers, such as S...

During the Second World War RAF Bomber Command produced a handful of remarkable pilots who won fame and high honors: Gibson, Cheshire, Martin, Tait, and Searby. The majority of aircrew, however, were young sergeants, many of whom did not survive to complete a first tour of thirty operations. Between the two extremes, there were, on every squadron, one or two senior captains who had survived one tour and whose experience, skill, courage, and example made a vital contribution to their squadr...