American Money

Explore the intricate workings of two pivotal institutions at the heart of America's financial system—the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Federal Reserve. "The Foundations of American Finance: The IRS and the Federal Reserve" offers a comprehensive examination of how these entities shape the nation's economic landscape. This book delves into the historical roots and evolution of the IRS and the Federal Reserve, revealing their critical roles in managing taxation and monetary policy.

Political gridlock in Washington…the lingering effects of the financial crisis…structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap of our work force…the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us? Joel Kurtzman persuasively shows why all the talk about America's decline is not only baseless but dead wrong. Our best days, are, in fact, ahead of us.

Why have so many middle-class Americans encountered so much financial trouble? In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class. A new preface examines the persistent and new threats that have emerged since the original publication.

What do Americans do with their money? Marketplace host David Brancaccio took a financial pilgrimage across the country to find out. Get Squandering Aimlessly plus a 1-Month, 6-Month, or 12-Month Subscription to Marketplace at a special discount.

How well do you know US tax law, the IRS, and their rich histories? In this fun-filled trivia book, seasoned tax attorney Mike Kowis challenges listeners with 250 questions about American taxation. This audiobook covers amusing tax quotes, history of US taxation, the Internal Revenue Code, important case law, the Internal Revenue Service, tax forms, audits, politics, and much more! Plus, you’ll learn interesting factoids, such as: The US government hired Walt Disney to make cartoons encouraging citizens to pay income taxes in the 1940s. You will surely enjoy testing your knowledge!

Have you tried to live on a budget only to discover that budgeting just doesn't move the needle? No matter how hard you try to cut back and pinch pennies, you just can't seem to get ahead? Smart money management is important, but sometimes you really need to just make more money to achieve your financial goals and get ahead in life. Earn Extra Income offers a collection of 25 easy-to-implement side hustles, part-time jobs, small business ideas, and work-from-home opportunities that you can implement in the next 30 days.

"Tax Free at Last" is a true story about income tax law, tracing its roots over 100 years ago from a simple tax collection method to an uncontrollable force that impacts all citizens' lives. The book sheds light on unexplored corners of the income tax world and advocates for a complete overhaul of the tax system.

WHEN THE AMERICAN DREAM DIES, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO TURN TO AMERICAN CRIMES! A lower middle-class couple, a mailman and a housewife, living in the suburbs suddenly find themselves caught up in the middle of a Mexican Cartel drug war. Brand new, hot-off-the-press material by New York Times Thriller Award winning author Vincent Zandri. For readers of Charlie Houston, Don Winslow, Lawrence Block, and watchers of Ozark, Breaking Bad, and more. Grab your pulse-pounding thriller now! Praise for Vincent Zandri: "The story of Vincent Zandri is the story of our times." --Business Insider "...

The funny thing about the streets is you never know who really loves you or whom you can trust. Heather Blackmon better known as Hurricane knows this story all too well. After burying her father Heavy, husband Taz and his crew leaving her for dead. Even though she beats the odds and lives. Hurricane got a new plug along with crew and game plan too. You think life to her would be sweet. Yet sometimes things are just not the way they seem. What’s the deal with her new plug? Will WC prove Hurricane right that men ain’t to be trusted? Will she have to kill him along with Taz? I know the ...

Accountable examines present-day conditions and the consequences for America. At its core, this book is a tool with which the community can evaluate the successes or failures of its political leaders and of itself. This insightful book acknowledges the mistakes of the past while offering hope and inspiration for a better future.

This audiobook lists, and then analyzes, many of the highest paying jobs in America that either do, or don’t, require some sort of college education. Many people don’t realize that there are jobs in many industries that pay over a hundred thousand dollars a year that don’t require anything other than a high school diploma, or that don’t require any education of any kind whatsoever at all. Countless millions of people have become millionaires, or have retired with over a hundred thousand dollars a year in passive income sources.

Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and even bankers themselves have long taken an active interest in regulating the industry.

In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal from Hell, veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions.

Amiable but stolid peer Bill, Lord Dawlish, possessor of a slender income and a querulous fiancée, resolves to seek his fortune in America. But before he can even get on the boat, he discovers that the eccentric American millionaire whom he cured of slicing his approach-shots on the links at Marvis Bay a few months earlier has unexpectedly left him five million dollars, as a reward for his altruistic action. But to Bill, noblesse more or less obliges him to share the fortune with the old man's disinherited niece, Elizabeth.

Forget what you’ve been culturally conditioned to think about financial freedom. It’s no longer reserved for the elite. How many legitimate problems would you have if acquiring money to pay for your basic needs was no longer your primary focus? Imagine what your life would look like if your primary focus was not money, but instead something truly meaningful to you. With your basic financial needs met, you would be free to create, free to impact, free to explore, and free to evolve. What more could you want?

Globalization is about Americans outsourcing product development and services to other countries. Globality is the next step, where rapidly developing economies from around the world are now competing with us head to head. The authors present a strong case that the economic climate in which we have lived is going to change in unprecedented ways.

The greatest American economic development stimulus policy to create prosperity and renewed growth and much needed jobs would be the abolishment of the current tax code in favor of a new hybrid flat and fair tax code. Holbrook demonstrates how this new tax code would be equitable and fair to all Americans.

For 36 years, Patti McKelvey has sold homes, condos, apartments, townhouses, and more in San Diego. Her total, north of 6,000 units, has meant helping all those individuals and families attain the American Dream. She is legendary in the city's real estate circles, for the number of sales per year (and a shelf-full of awards as the top agent for Corky McMillin and Coldwell Banker West) and for her gift of listening - she finds out what clients want and leads them to the purchase or the sale of a home.

Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble" - policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles - arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests - aid, abet, and amplify risk.

What would you do to avenge the person you loved most in the world? When her mother is brutally murdered by her abusive boyfriend, Karma Alonso-Walker knows the Newark Police Department won’t do anything to help her. They didn’t when her mother was still alive—and they for sure won’t now that she’s dead. That leaves Karma with only one choice. Take matters into her own hands. It sounds simple enough. After all, she knows who the killer is. But in order to exact her vengeance, Karma will have to dig deep into a world that she’s avoided her whole life, and make a dangerous deal ...