Rigged Money

Author : Lee Munson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118099680
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigged Money written by Lee Munson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's financial landscape and what Wall Street doesn't want you to know Rigged Money is based on one simple truth: Wall Street needs money from Main Street, not the other way around. The financial industry has convinced the general public that investing across different asset classes is the only way to protect wealth, but this is an outdated rule that no longer applies. Since asset classes—small caps, large caps, international investments, gold, and bonds—now overlap when it comes to risk and volatility parameters, the diversification effect is gone. That's exactly what Wall Street doesn't want you to know—that the rules of the game have changed. Risk Isn't Constant: Pie charts lie when it comes to accurately describing the risk of stocks and bonds Dividends Are No Silver Bullet: They are designed to entice investors rather than to increase a company's value or your net worth Buy and Hold is Dead: The financial world (and all the companies and securities in it) moves too quickly and is changing too often for this theory to hold true today Gold Is Not an Investment: Gold is today's currency of fear, and this fear is driven by escalating government debt An unflinching look at this new financial world, Lee Munson's Rigged Money arms today's investors with the simple, smart, and clear advice needed to level the playing field.

Author : Lee Munson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118171144
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigged Money written by Lee Munson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's financial landscape and what Wall Street doesn't want you to know Rigged Money is based on one simple truth: Wall Street needs money from Main Street, not the other way around. The financial industry has convinced the general public that investing across different asset classes is the only way to protect wealth, but this is an outdated rule that no longer applies. Since asset classes—small caps, large caps, international investments, gold, and bonds—now overlap when it comes to risk and volatility parameters, the diversification effect is gone. That's exactly what Wall Street doesn't want you to know—that the rules of the game have changed. Risk Isn't Constant: Pie charts lie when it comes to accurately describing the risk of stocks and bonds Dividends Are No Silver Bullet: They are designed to entice investors rather than to increase a company's value or your net worth Buy and Hold is Dead: The financial world (and all the companies and securities in it) moves too quickly and is changing too often for this theory to hold true today Gold Is Not an Investment: Gold is today's currency of fear, and this fear is driven by escalating government debt An unflinching look at this new financial world, Lee Munson's Rigged Money arms today's investors with the simple, smart, and clear advice needed to level the playing field.

Author : Nomi Prins
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585632
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collusion written by Nomi Prins and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this searing exposéformer Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks or balances. Meanwhile, the open door between private and central banking has ensured endless opportunities for market manipulation and asset bubbles -- with government support. Through on-the-ground reporting, Prins reveals how five regions and their central banks reshaped economics and geopolitics. She discloses how Mexico navigated its relationship with the US while striving for independence and how Brazil led the BRICS countries to challenge the US dollar's hegemony. She explains how China's retaliation against the Fed's supremacy is aiding its ongoing ascent as a global superpower and how Japan is negotiating the power shift from the West to the East. And she illustrates how the European response to the financial crisis fueled instability that manifests itself in everything from rising populism to the shocking Brexit vote. Packed with tantalizing details about the elite players orchestrating the world economy -- from Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi to Ben Bernanke and Christine Lagarde -- Collusion takes the reader inside the most discreet conversations at exclusive retreats like Jackson Hole and Davos. A work of meticulous reporting and bracing analysis, Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance.

Author : Susan F. Paterno
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250622654
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game On written by Susan F. Paterno and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of the Chapman journalism program—and mother of four recent college grads—Susan F. Paterno leads you through the admissions process to help you and your family make the best decision possible. How is it possible that Harvard is more affordable for most American families than their local state university? Or that up to half of eligible students receive no financial aid? Or that public universities are rejecting homegrown middle- and working-class applicants and instead enrolling wealthy out-of- state students? College admission has escalated into a high-stakes game of emotional and financial survival. How is the deck stacked against you? And what can you do about it? Susan F. Paterno, a veteran academic and journalist, answers these questions and more in Game On. Paterno helped her four very different kids navigate the application process to a wide range of colleges, paying for their four-year educations on a finite budget. She incisively decodes the college admission industry—the consultants, the tutors, the rankers, the branding companies hawking “advantage”—and arms you with the knowledge you need to make the system work for you. You’ll learn how to narrow your focus, analyze who gets in and why, and look for the right financial fit before considering anything else, including geography, reputation, and, especially, ranking. Among the tools and insights in Game On: · Why forty years of failed free-market policies have led to skyrocketing tuition and historic levels of student debt · Why applying to college has become a bewildering maze and how to find your way to a successful result · Why college costs are more terrifying than you think · How to read beyond the rack rate to negotiate the best financial package with the least debt · Why merit is a myth, but merit aid is essential · The difference between family debt and student debt and how to split it A playbook for the Hunger Games of higher education, Game On explains the anxiety, uncertainty, and chaos in college admission, explodes the myth of meritocracy, exposes the academy’s connection to America’s widening gap between rich and poor, and provides strategies to beat—and reform—a broken system.

Author : Kimberly Jones
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250805139
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How We Can Win written by Kimberly Jones and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the SABEW Best in Business Book Awards Winner of the 2022 AAMBC Literary Award for Non-Fiction/Self Help Book of the Year A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.” “So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?" When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones’s damning—and stunningly succinct—analysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face. In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions—those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves—the most valuable asset we have—in the fight against a system that is still rigged.

Author : Thomas Lott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigged to Fail written by Thomas Lott and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two veteran Wall Street insiders, Matthew Piepenburg and Thomas Lott, warn, inform and prepare Main Street investors for dramatic market drawdowns ahead. Despite the most artificial (and extended) bull melt-up in the history of capital markets, U.S. and global markets are poised to enter an equally historic and extended meltdown, dramatically impacting the portfolios, retirements and longer-term plans for the vast majority of uninformed investors. Rigged to Fail makes these risks and opportunities objectively clear and offers blunt insights and solutions to winning within an otherwise rigged-to-fail market, now driven almost entirely by an increasingly cornered, and desperate, Federal Reserve. Having spent over fifty combined years inside the blue-chip banks, hedge funds and family offices which serve the wealthiest clients, Matt and Tom have dedicated themselves to making hitherto exclusive investment insights rightfully available to all investors, regardless of market experience or income levels. Rigged to Fail plainly addresses why and how markets have become so profoundly distorted and risk-saturated by setting forth an historically-confirmed template of reckless and debt-driven policies and the recessions which always follow. Without resorting to bull or bear bias, Rigged to Fail does not dwell on fear or hope selling, but simply provides empirical evidence of the dangers facing current markets, how they got to this critical tipping point while simultaneously laying out the generational risks and opportunities which lie ahead. Matt and Tom offer clear, simple and specific portfolio and investment solutions to manage markets, and hence portfolios, during all phases of a debt-driven cycle, from the "recovery" and subsequent melt-up phase to the meltdown phase that consistently follows. Their insider perspective and heavy reliance upon blunt market data (rather than opinion) provides a plain-speak explanation of the three biggest mistakes made by uniformed investors while offering a common sense tutorial as to the oldest, simplest and yet most ignored approaches to making real money in otherwise dangerously rigged-to-fail markets. Their chapters offer direct solutions to managing risk in a market whose rise and fall is now entirely driven by central bank policies and "experiments" rather than traditional market fundamentals. In short, unprecedented risk, as well as opportunity lies ahead, and the authors promise to guide readers through these historical markets with confidence, calm and most importantly, success. Now is not the time to ignore such extraordinary, yet mostly media-hidden risks, nor to miss out on the opportunities to ensure generational wealth. As career Wall Street insiders, Matt and Tom know all too well how this market casino is stacked against the majority of uninformed investors and are committed to protecting every reader who lands upon these pages. So, scroll up and click "buy now," as the clock is indeed ticking on the most hated bull run of modern capital markets.

Author : Mollie Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684512638
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigged written by Mollie Hemingway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER JUSTICE ON TRIAL Stunned by the turbulence of the 2020 election, millions of Americans are asking the forbidden question: what really happened? It was a devastating triple punch. Capping their four-year campaign to destroy the Trump presidency, the media portrayed a Democratic victory as necessary and inevitable. Big Tech, wielding unprecedented powers, vaporized dissent and erased damning reports about the Biden family's corruption. And Democratic operatives, exploiting a public health crisis, shamelessly manipulated the voting process itself. Silenced and subjected, the American people lost their faith in the system. RIGGED is the definitive account of the 2020 election. Based on Mollie Hemingway's exclusive interviews with campaign officials, reporters, Supreme Court justices, and President Trump himself, it exposes the fraud and cynicism behind the Democrats' historic power-grab. Rewriting history is a specialty of the radical left, now in control of America's political and cultural heights. But they will have to contend with the determination, insight, and eloquence of Mollie Hemingway. RIGGED is a reminder for weary patriots that truth is still the most powerful weapon. The stakes for our democracy have never been higher.

Author : Dean Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692793367
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigged written by Dean Baker and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather, it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward.

Author : John Vandemoer
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063020122
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigged Justice written by John Vandemoer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Stanford University sailing coach sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal tells the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit in this eye-opening memoir that offers a damning portrait of modern college administration and the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect. For eleven years, John Vandemoer ran the prestigious Stanford University sailing program in which he coached Olympians and All-Americans. Though the hours were long and the program struggled for funding, sailing gave Vandemoer’s life shape and meaning. But early one morning, everything came crashing down when Vandemoer, still in his pajamas, opened the door to find FBI and IRS agents on his doorstep. He quickly learned that a recruiter named Rick Singer had used him as a stooge in a sophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to the endless appetite for university fundraising—and wealthy parents looking for an edge for their college-bound children. Vandemoer was summarily fired, kicked out of campus housing, his children booted from campus daycare. The next year of his life was a Kafkaesque hellscape, and though he was an innocent man who never received a dime was the first person to be convicted in what became known as the Varsity Blues scandal. A true story that reads like a suspense novel, Rigged Justice lays bare how a sophisticated scheme could take advantage of college coaches and university money—and how one family became collateral damage in a large government investigation that dominated national headlines.

Author : Stuart Englert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781651405208
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigged written by Stuart Englert and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest financial fraud in history wasn't Enron's colossal accounting crimes, Bernie Madoff's record-setting Ponzi scheme or the Libor scandal, in which some of the world's biggest banks conspired to profit by manipulating interest rates. No, the largest financial fraud in history is one most Americans know little to nothing about. It isn't mentioned by politicians, reported on the nightly news or discussed by coworkers during lunch break. The biggest fraud in history is a financial scheme perpetrated by the U.S. government and its banking accomplices. Over the last century, they've used coercion, deception and market manipulation to convince Americans the U.S. dollar is as good as gold and silver. The truth is, it's not.