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The independence of the Federal Reserve is considered a cornerstone of its identity, crucial for keeping monetary policy decisions free of electoral politics. But do we really understand what is meant by "Federal Reserve independence"? Using scores of examples from the Fed's rich history, The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve shows that much common wisdom about the nation's central bank is inaccurate.

Sweat Equity goes inside the multi-billion-dollar trend toward endurance sports and fitness to discover who's driving it, who's paying for it, and who's profiting. Bloomberg's Jason Kelly profiles the participants, entrepreneurs, and investors at the center of this movement, exploring this phenomenon in which a surge of people—led by the most affluent—are becoming increasingly obsessed with looking and feeling better.

Todos aspiramos a construir nuestro propio patrimonio y a generar rentas pasivas. No obstante, no es fácil conseguirlo sin una idea clara de qué, cómo y cuándo debe hacerse. Sin los conocimientos adecuados estamos abocados a cometer errores que pongan en riesgo nuestras inversiones y, aun...

"Una tantum" e ticket, investimenti e agevolazioni fiscali: con l'ineluttabilità del succedersi delle stagioni, la finanziaria diviene ogni autunno il tema centrale della politica italiana, l'appuntamento capace di incidere in modo significativo sulla nostra vita quotidiana. Introdotta nella nostra legislazione nel 1978, la "manovra" è stata uno strumento politico determinante sia negli anni '80, quando rappresentò il mezzo perverso per alimentare la spesa pubblica, sia successivamente, quando divenne il tramite virtuoso del risanamento.

In the long run, economies grow. Over the shorter-term business cycle, economic activity contracts and expands. From Main Street to Wall Street examines both the long-run relation between economic growth and stock returns and the shorter-term business-cycle relation. It examines the complex relationship between the economy and the stock market, and guides listeners through the fascinating interaction between economic activity and financial markets.

This highly accessible ground-floor view of corporate accounting offers everything you need to navigate today's financial landscape with the knowledge and confidence of a seasoned pro.  

The easiest way into the world of blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralization, bitcoin, ICOs, and Co.

Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators - from Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gillian Tett...

A thrilling look at the rise and fall of Juul and the danger of e-cigarettes. The story begins with two students who want to quit smoking and culminates with 48 dead and nearly 2,300 injured and counting. The real question is: how? __________ Some say vaping is a public health revolution that...

It's become accepted wisdom that established companies can't build and scale new ventures the way startups can—after all, startups are lean and agile, while incumbents are too big, slow, and inflexible. But that's nonsense, and it's time to challenge that idea. Linda Yates, the founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Mach49, argues that to thrive, companies can and must harness their power—their ideas, talent, data, cash, resources, channels, and customers—to build a portfolio of game-changing ventures and beat the startups at their own game.

This book is about Corporate Finance: how companies make decisions about what projects to pursue, and how to value those projects. This book will provide a framework for how financial professionals make decisions about how, when, and where to invest money. Corporate Finance comprises a set of skills that interact with all the aspects of running a business. It is also extremely helpful in our personal lives when making decisions about buying or leasing, borrowing money, and making big purchases.

Raising money for real estate investments is both an art and a science. Ken McElroy's success in multi-family real estate development and investing is built upon knowledge and experience in understanding finance, the power of an infinite returns model and appreciation of how how to create value...

Nadie nos enseña los trucos para, legalmente, incrementar nuestro patrimonio y ponerlo a resguardo de Hacienda. Pero existir, existen. Y los más ricos, bien asesorados, los utilizan para maximizar su patrimonio y minimizar los impuestos a pagar. Y, también, para evitar que en un golpe de mala...

Fundraising for the Rest of Us is the honest, tactical guide that Allison Byers wished she had when she was raising millions for her own startups. This audiobook is not a "how to raise VC" fantasy or a glossy "how to hustle and tell a great story" version. This is a real guide to raising capital while navigating bias, power dynamics, warm intros, and the invisible rules nobody explains.

By learning from both the mistakes and achievements of those before us, we can better craft our own approach to success. Award-winning professor of entrepreneurship Dileep Rao presents listeners with a detailed guide to success through his interviews and analysis of billion-dollar entrepreneurs (those who built a venture from startup to more than one billion dollars in sales and valuation) and 100-million-dollar entrepreneurs (start-up to $100 million).

An insightful and devastating account of how Wall Street lost its way from an insider who experienced the culture of Goldman Sachs first-hand. On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." The...

Buying and Selling a Business reveals key strategies to sell and acquire business investments. Garrett Sutton, Esq. is a best-selling author of numerous law for the layman books, and he guides the listener clearly through all of the obstacles to be faced before completing a winning transaction...

 Reputation Rules is a landmark work bringing to light Dr. Diermeier's groundbreaking insights in this critical area. He offers the frameworks, strategies, and processes for changing your company's focus as quickly as the world is changing around you.  

Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of today's US health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it.

Unless a business provides value, it will fail. We all know this, and yet many of us, whether employees or business leaders, do not have a clear idea of who creates value and how. What the CFO Wants You to Know is an indispensable guide to creating value in an enterprise, drawing on the extensive experience of serial CFO and author Charles Asubonten.