Global Finance

In "Trump's Second Term: Your Blueprint for Venture Capital Millions," Mark Milner provides an invaluable roadmap for investors and entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on the economic opportunities expected during President Trump's second term. Drawing from his own success story during the first Trump administration, Milner offers insider insights into the most lucrative investment sectors and strategies for leveraging corporate tax cuts and business-friendly policies.

The governments and central banks of the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish, or worse. How did we get here, and how can we emerge from the longest downturn in recent memory? Daniel Alpert, a progressive Wall Street banker and economist, argues that we are living in the age of oversupply.

Dive into the future of finance with "Bitcoin and the Financial Revolution," a comprehensive exploration of how Bitcoin is reshaping our economic world. This transformative eBook takes you on a captivating journey from the origins of Bitcoin to its potential to redefine global financial systems. Start by uncovering how this decentralized currency emerged as a groundbreaking answer to traditional monetary systems. Discover the pivotal role of blockchain technology and why it differentiates Bitcoin from conventional currencies. Delve into the core economic principles driving Bitcoin, such as ...

In How to Win at Car Auctions 101: How to Quickly Master Buying at Auction, you'll learn from an expert with over 20 years of experience in the car auction business. This guide breaks down the auction process step by step, giving you the insider knowledge to outsmart competitors and snag the best deals on cars. From understanding how auctions work to inspecting the vehicles, this book covers everything you need to know to succeed in the fast-paced world of car auctions.

Are you tired of making mistakes, earning less, or not hitting your daily or monthly targets because of employing average techniques? Are you ready to take your game a notch higher and learn new advanced strategies, secrets, and tips to improve your winning probability and make more money? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

It is time to get your money working for you. How to Own the World explains why you can, and must, learn about investment and highlights the significant advantages you have over many finance professionals. This is both a personal finance audiobook and a personal development audibobook; by safeguarding your future wealth you are safeguarding your long-term health and happiness.

From a long-time Alibaba executive and former special assistant to Jack Ma, this is the first book to articulate how Alibaba's unique culture and “tai chi” management principles are providing a business and economic development model for the rest of the world.

Centuries ago, beneath the candlelit hush of a Venetian counting house, a secret circle forged a quiet tool of unimaginable power—an “Archimedes Key” to move markets as effortlessly as a lever shifts weight. Over time, this clandestine influence evolved, outlasting empires and adapting to every reform the world threw at it. Now, in the digital age, it thrives by working invisibly: no dramatic crashes, no public scandals, just gentle nudges that guide wealth upward fraction by fraction. Anya Sokolova, a brilliant quantitative analyst, and Marcus Vance, a once-disgraced journalist, once...

Where Am I Eating? shows how what we eat affects the lives of the people who produce our food, and explores the global food economy including workers' rights, the global food crisis, fair trade, and immigration. Where Am I Eating? does not argue for or against the globalization of food but personalizes it by observing the hope and opportunity, and sometimes the lack thereof, that the global food economy gives to the world's poorest producers.

Dr. Henry Kaufman is the most famous economist Wall Street has ever seen, renowned well beyond the financial industry. He was the subject of New Yorker cartoons, had cameos in drama productions and two seminal literary works of the 1980s, was subject to death threats, and enjoyed the nickname "Dr. Doom." His pinnacle of influence arrived on August 17, 1982. That single day turned out to be the beginning of the world that we now live in.

Seeing the Unseen: Behind Chinese Tech Giants' Global Venturing delves into the fascinating world of Chinese logic that shapes how tech leaders make and implement decisions, many of which are seldom seen outside China.

The Disney Playbook: Lessons in Business, Branding, and Global Domination Step into the magic behind the mouse with The Disney Playbook - the ultimate guide to understanding how Disney became a global empire. This book dives deep into the business strategies, branding brilliance, and innovative mindset that transformed a cartoon mouse into an unstoppable cultural force. From billion-dollar acquisitions like Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm to groundbreaking moves in streaming with Disney+, every chapter unpacks Disney’s bold decisions and secret playbook for success.

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value extraction is rewarded more highly than value creation: the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. From companies driven solely to maximise shareholder value to astronomically high prices of medicines justified through big pharma's 'value pricing', we misidentify taking with making, and have lost sight of what value really means.

This introduction to the economic history of the global economy and the process of globalization since 1850 tracks and explains changes in international trade, migration, and capital flows. All key indicators of globalization rose between 1850 and 1914 during the first wave of globalization. Between 1918 and 1939 the global economy stagnated, suffering a momentous collapse during the Great Depression. After World War II, the global economy re-emerged and integration deepened.

This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments throughout the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed. If left unexamined, they will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all.

The greatest challenge of any start-up and growth company is the transition from an early stage start up to a robust organization complete with a driving culture, contemporary leadership, organizational infrastructure and twenty-first-century operating methodologies. Ralf Specht provides inspiration, wisdom, and learnings gleaned from his role and experience in creating and scaling Spark 44, a Jaguar Land Rover joint venture from concept to an award-winning global marketing communications company with well over a thousand employees in eighteen countries in a few short years.

When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, most experts expected the WTO rules and procedures would liberalize China and make it "a responsible stakeholder in the liberal world order". But the experts made the wrong bet. China today is liberalizing neither economically nor politically but, if anything, becoming more authoritarian and mercantilist. In this book, renowned globalization and Asia expert Clyde Prestowitz describes the key challenges posed by China and the strategies America and the Free World must adopt to meet them.

Global inequality is growing. Financial markets disenfranchise women, the 99 percent, and the planet itself. But what if we found the source of power and turned it inside out? What if we made the tools of the system available to all? From growing up with constrained life chances, to working as the first Bangladeshi woman on Wall Street, to becoming a global leader in impact investing, Shahnaz takes us on a mesmerizing trek of innovation, compassion, and enterprise.

Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have been working hard, uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from charity to terrorism and prostitution. And with their inimitable style and wit, they will take us on another even more gripping journey of discovery. Superfreakonomics will once again transform the way we look at the world.

A fun yet factual guide to thriving not only in Silicon Valley but in the emerging Global Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley has become synonymous with big ideas, start-ups, and inventing the future. But today the magic of Silicon Valley has gone viral and global. From Austin to Boston, from Shanghai to Dubai, a Global Silicon Valley is emerging.