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Are you looking for a way to overcome your financial worries by discovering fool-proof strategies for saving money and starting your own business? As long as you have money, as long as you earn money, and your family members rely on your for financial support, you are bound to face a financial crisis at one point or another! This is pretty much an unavoidable truth of life. What you can do, though, is immediately start to smart save your money and invest them in a business to ensure a safe and secure future and prepare yourself for unforeseen emergencies to the best of your abilities.

Get your smart edge now! Smart Contracts is about the revolutionary (blockchain technology) approach with legal contracts or any legal agreements. This book offers an unprecedented peek into what the future may be like that could possibly change and enhance the traditional way of doing things for the better.

This book includes two manuscripts, Blockchain: Master the Blockchain Technology and Bitcoin: The Currency of the Future. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are fascinating, and if someone is able to do their own solving of the algorithmic puzzles and mining of the Bitcoin, there is even money to be made. However, as interesting as the idea of cryptocurrencies are, the ways blockchain technology will immeasurably alter the methods in which the world shares information are incredible.

In this expert insider's account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs - in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of their industries - use to defraud companies for their personal gain.

The bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers was the pivotal event of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed. Ever since the bankruptcy, there has been heated debate about why the Federal Reserve did not rescue Lehman in the same way it rescued other financial institutions, such as Bear Stearns and AIG. The Fed's leaders from that time, especially former Chairman Ben Bernanke, have strongly asserted that they lacked the legal authority to save Lehman because it did not have adequate collateral for the loan it needed to survive. 

Almost 90 percent of financial advisors fail at being financial advisors. Why? Because advisors, brokers, reps, and agents need to see more people to make more sales appointments. This audiobook covers everything you need to know about going to the right places, saying the right things, and meeting the right people - absolutely mandatory for a financial advisor or sales producer that's serious about making more and better connections!

Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy placed much greater focus on stabilizing the market than on helping struggling Americans. As a result, the richest Americans got a lot richer while the middle class shrank and economic and wealth inequality skyrocketed. In Engine of Inequality, Karen Petrou offers pragmatic solutions for creating more inclusive monetary policy and equality-enhancing financial regulation as quickly and painlessly as possible.  

As incredible as it may seem in this hyper-connected, technologically advanced era, half the planet's population exist as financial nomads: those who nourish and shelter themselves without using traditional banking services. While the wealthy live at the top of a metaphorical pyramid, taking financial security and banking services for granted, there are billions of people who struggle at the pyramid's base in an exhausting state of financial exclusion and insecurity.

A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of...

Over the fall of 2017, bitcoin reached an all-time high of more than $7,000 despite the fact that more than 50 percent of all Americans still have a hard time explaining what exactly a bitcoin is or why they would want one for anything other than investment purposes. While it isn't yet mainstream, cryptocurrency is here to stay and if you are looking to learn how you can put them to work for you then Bitcoin - Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Cryptocurrency Technologies - Mining, Investing and Trading in Digital Gold is the audiobook that you have been waiting for.

Die USA werden in Bitcoin als nationale Währungsreserve investieren. El Salvador und Bhutan tun das schon seit einigen Jahren. Große Finanzdienstleister wie Blackrock haben Bitcoin-ETFs aufgesetzt. Börsennotierte Unternehmen wie Microstrategy legen ihre Überschüsse in Bitcoin an. Bitcoin...

In this book, Jeff Reed explains the fundamentals of smart contracts and how they work. The practical uses of smart contracts are enumerated in this book and you will also learn how you can make your own smart contracts in the Ethereum system. You will also get tips on how you can make your smart contacts easy to understand and user-friendly. This book also covers some of the myths surrounding smart contracts and the reasons why they exist.

In Breaking into Banking, renowned finance and careers commentator Afzal Hussein delivers a concise and up-to-date roadmap to getting your start in the world of finance and banking. You'll explore the different divisions and areas of the industry—including investment banking, global markets, investment research, asset management, operations, technology, hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital—how they work, and what they do.

The Secrets of the Federal Reserve* by Eustace Mullins investigates the origins, structure, and influence of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, arguing that it was created not solely to stabilize the economy but to serve the interests of an elite banking group. Mullins traces the Reserve’s formation back to a secret meeting on Jekyll Island and explores how this institution has impacted U.S. and global economics

Over the past decade financial service innovations have contributed to a completely new way in which customers can bank, threatening the status quo of traditional retail banks, and redefining a banking model which has been in place for generations. These new technological advancements have facilitated the rapid emergence of digital banking firms and FinTech companies, leading to established banks being forced to swiftly increase their pace of digital adoption.

Napoleon Hill zeigt in diesem zweiten Band seiner "Erfolgsgesetze in 16 Lektionen", welche geistigen Kräfte hinter wahrem Erfolg stehen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen das Vorstellungsvermögen, Begeisterung, Selbstbeherrschung, unverlangte Extraleistungen, ein sympathisches Wesen und geistige Klarheit. Hill erklärt, wie Gedanken, Ideen und klare innere Bilder zur Grundlage großer Leistungen werden.

DIE CREDIT SUISSE HÄTTE GERETTET WERDEN KÖNNEN. Es ist kein Zufall, dass die Credit Suisse sterben musste. Geldgier, Grössenwahn und Verantwortungslosigkeit trieben sie in den Ruin. Nirgends war das Missverhältnis zwischen den ausbezahlten Löhnen und den Gewinnen so gross wie bei der Credit Suisse. In den letzten fünfzehn Jahren zahlte die Bank 58 Milliarden Franken Boni, fünfmal mehr, als sie Gewinne schrieb. Hinzu kam eine erschreckende Nonchalance beim Umgang mit Regeln und Gesetzen. Die unzähligen Skandale kosteten die Bank 22 Milliarden Franken − und ihren Ruf.

The second son of an Austrian emigre, Anthony Drexel (1826-1893) soon established himself as the preeminent financial mind in the Philadelphia currency brokerage his father began in 1838. Shunning publicity, self-promotion, and high-profile public accolades (he declined President Ulysses S. Grant's invitation to become Secretary of the Treasury), Drexel initiated a partnership with J. P. Morgan and his father, Junius, that became the most powerful financial combination of its age.

American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.

Kann man Glück mit Geld kaufen? Nach dem weltweiten Erfolg von »Über die Psychologie des Geldes« findet Morgan Housel in seinem neuen Buch die Antwort auf diese entscheidende Frage: Ja – wenn es richtig eingesetzt wird. Der Bestsellerautor zeigt, dass Finanzentscheidungen wenig mit Rationalität und Zahlen zu tun haben und viel mit Psychologie und Identität, was in der Finanzwelt jedoch allzu oft ignoriert wird. Wer weiß, wie man Geld vermehrt, weiß noch lange nicht, wie man Geld einsetzt, um persönliches Glück und Zufriedenheit zu maximieren.