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The future is coming, and fast. Will it bring us a world of war or peace, abundance or misery, autocracy or democracy? World renowned futurist and educator Langdon Morris offers this detailed and fascinating exploration of the next ten critical years for humanity, and answers these essential questions to help you prepare for the coming turbulence. With more than 100 color graphics that illustrate and explain the key concepts with exceptional clarity and detail, this book is essential reading for leaders, strategists, educators, parents, and citizens worldwide. From the Preface: This book is...

To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in harsh environments. This audiobook tells the personal stories of humans living in extreme situations, and of the financial infrastructure they create. Here, economies are not concerned with the familiar stock market crashes, housing crises, or banking scandals of the financial pages.

From the world's leading experts on geopolitical risk, a guide to the major global issues and policies sure to dominate headlines in the next few years. In the last four years, the world has suffered a financial market meltdown and subsequent global recession. The eurozone crisis looms, the Middle East is in turmoil, and a shifting power balance between emerging markets and developed economies is reordering the global economy as a whole.

This book provides a fascinating insider's look at how China is changing rapidly today, how these changes pose grave risks to the rest of the world, and how the US and its allies can best address these challenges. Trade wars and US presidents may come and go, but the fundamental dynamics of the US-China relationship will remain in place for years to come.

DeFi, una abreviatura que significa finanzas descentralizadas, es una palabra de moda que se desvanece y que se escuchó más junto con AI, blockchain y Web 3.0 hace un par de años antes de quedar encerrada durante casi dos años debido a una pandemia global. La buena noticia es que usted recuerda haber escuchado la palabra, y la excelente noticia es que es un subconjunto de la tecnología Web 3.0 que está destinada a empoderar a todos los usuarios de Internet en todo el mundo de una manera que democratiza las herramientas financieras en las que el individuo más pobre con muy poco el ...

El capitalismo es la respuesta a todos los problemas políticos y fiscales de Estados Unidos, pero la continua intervención bancaria y gubernamental está arruinando nuestro país y nuestra moneda. Los estadounidenses necesitan menos gobierno y vamos a tener que pasar por un doloroso final de la mayor recesión que comenzó en 2007 y continúa hasta el día de hoy. Un dólar de 2020 ahora vale 0,72 dólares y está disminuyendo, y no importa cuál sea su política porque nuestros líderes a nivel municipal, estatal y nacional están ignorando la crisis de deuda que se avecina. De manera ...

In this groundbreaking treatise, best-selling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to world economic prosperity and what we need to do to overcome them. Batra takes on falling minimum wages, corporate scandals, rocketing oil prices, and many of the other crises facing the world economy. He offers an expansive, optimistic vision of how the international community can address them and bring about something historically unprecedented: true global economic prosperity.

In Terror Incorporated, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over. Chasing terror money, she takes the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of the far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to hawala exchanges in the Middle East.

In Screwed!, best-selling authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann lay bare the unvarnished facts as never before and suggest real, immediate, and specific steps to stop those who undermine our interests and take away our jobs. Morris and McGann have documented exactly how the United States is getting screwed, and how to stop it. They dig up the facts, name names, point fingers, and suggest concrete solutions - independent of partisan politics.

A spirited and incisive survey of economic geography, A World Made for Money begins with the author stopped at a red light in Norman, Oklahoma. Observing the landscape of drugstores and banks, and for that matter the stoplight and roads themselves, Bret Wallach observes, "Everything I see has been built to make money" or, at the very least, to facilitate making money. This, he argues, is a global phenomenon that nonetheless has occurred only within the past hundred years or so.

Capitalism is the answer to all of the US's political and fiscal problems, but continual banking and governmental intervention is ruining our country and currency. Americans need less government, and we are going to have to go through a painful end to the Greatest Recession that began back in 2007 and has continued to today. A 2020 dollar is now worth $.72 and declining, and it doesn't matter what your politics are because the looming debt crisis is being ignored by our leadership at the city, state, and national levels. The Biden Administration unintelligently weaponized the dollar in ...

If you want to understand what is really happening in politics and in the international monetary system, you have to read this book! Money today is a political tool. To understand the implications of this, you first have to understand the agenda of those who wield political power. The political trend for decades has been toward democratic socialism, with its abhorrence of markets and its love of the planned economy. Its continued success must worry anyone who desires freedom and prosperity. The Global Currency Plot puts socialism to a rigorous test of logic and finds it wanting. Polleit ...

This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments throughout the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed. If left unexamined, they will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all.

Former Prime Minister writes about the current world financial crisis, with insight into how nations can work to achieve growth on a global scale.

Economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni argues that the world is undergoing rapid and unexpected great transformations fueled by what she calls rogue economics. Eagerly awaited around the world (translation rights have already been sold throughout Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia), Napoleoni's account is based on top-to-bottom primary-source interviews from banking executives in New York to Russian prostitutes to London morgue workers.

The World Is Curved reveals how today's risky environment came to be - and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of potentially far more devastating trouble. He wrestles with the two questions on everyone's mind: How bad could things really get in today's volatile economy? And what can we do about it?

El mayor regalo dado al mundo en el siglo pasado fue la Marina de los Estados Unidos y su facilitación del comercio global mediante la anulación de armadas menores, la lucha contra la piratería y el mantenimiento de rutas marítimas abiertas. El mundo ha experimentado un enorme crecimiento económico y, en un momento dado, hay entre 50.000 y 60.000 grandes buques portacontenedores en el mar. Esto ha sido posible gracias a los buques de guerra de todo el mundo, y es algo que no aprecian las personas que disfrutan de precios más bajos como resultado de la competencia y la posibilidad de ...

War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis—the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable. In Price Wars, Rupert Russell lays out just how these crises are connected and how many such events plunged the 2010s into a decade of turmoil.

Marketing experts John Quelch and Katherine Jocz offer a new way to think about place in every strategic decision - from how to leverage consumer associations with locations to where to position products on the shelf. They explore case studies such as Nike and The Apple Store, which use place in creative ways. Drawing on a blend of hard data and engaging anecdotes, this audiobook will help any business - from global mega-brands to boutique, small town stores - influence customers more effectively.

Crash oder Jahrhundertchance? Dirk Müller ist sich sicher: Wir stehen vor der nächsten Weltwirtschaftskrise und einer gigantischen Umverteilung. Ob China, Russland, Nordkorea, Naher und Mittlerer Osten oder USA und Europa - Müller erklärt in seiner gewohnt verständlichen Art Hintergründe, Zusammenhänge und Konsequenzen der aktuellen Konflikte. Klug und glaubhaft schildert er den voraussichtlichen Ablauf dieser kommenden Weltwirtschaftskrise. Er zeigt, welche Rolle Digitalisierung und Automatisierung spielen, wo die Zukunft des Geldes, der Arbeit und der Gesellschaft liegt.