War Finance

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    • The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
    • By: Chris Miller
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,229 ratings
    • You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips....

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy
    • By: Sarah E. Kreps
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Sarah Kreps chronicles the entire history of how America has paid for its wars - and how its methods have changed....

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    • By: Barton Biggs
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs will help the 21st-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy....

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    • How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 714 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II....

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    • Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
    • By: Tom Burgis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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    • Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • A best-selling historian's gripping account of the powerful men who controlled America's financial destiny. From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money....

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    • Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
    • By: Matthew Parker
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent, dramatic, and shocking history....

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    • War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
    • By: David McNally
    • Narrated by: Tim Getman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In most accounts of the origins of money, we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development....

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    • Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
    • By: Michael Lind
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thrown governments into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex....

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
    • By: James A. Fok
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In Financial Cold War, market structure and geopolitical finance expert James Fok explores the nuances of China-US relations from the perspective of the financial markets....

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    • Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
    • By: Dana Mattioli
    • Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt, Dana Mattioli
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary....

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    • War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 48 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century....

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    • China's Playbook for Global Domination
    • By: Gen. Robert Spalding
    • Narrated by: David Bryson, Brett Boles
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through their new playbook.

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    • The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck, and the Revenge of the Terroirists
    • By: Mike Veseth
    • Narrated by: Clinton Wade
    • Series: Wine Wars, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Veseth has "grape expectations" that globalization, Two Buck Chuck, and the revenge of the terroirists will uncork a favorable future for wine....

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    • How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
    • By: Rupert Russell
    • Narrated by: Ben Deery
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Price Wars is a fascinating, original, and groundbreaking exposé of the power of the commodities markets to disrupt the world....

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    • The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
    • By: Chris Miller
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Chip War reveals how we can’t make sense of politics, economics or technology today without first understanding the central role played by computer chips in shaping the modern world. But the West's lead in this area is under threat....

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    • How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
    • By: Robert Spalding
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,940 ratings
    • In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West....

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    • The Battle for Control Over Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules
    • By: Jonathan Bier
    • Narrated by: Guy Swann
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • This book covers bitcoin’s blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017. On the surface, the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls bitcoin’s protocol rules....

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