Modern Money

The story of the "Lentil Underground" begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America's Great Plains: the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness told small farmers like the Oiens to "get big or get out." But 27-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand, becoming the first in his conservative Montana county to plant a radically different crop: organic lentils. Unlike the chemically dependent grains American farmers had been told to grow, lentils make their own fertilizer and tolerate variable climates, so their farmers aren't beholden to industrial methods.

Are you sick of hearing the same personal finance advice but never being able to get ahead? Paying off debt takes more than making a budget and cutting your spending. Years of bad spending habits, not planning for setbacks, and stress that depletes your motivation are just some of the barriers that prevent people from paying off debt. This book will show you how to knock down every barrier and finally achieve debt freedom. You’ll experience a renewed vigor to pay off your debt and feel the financial weight lifted off your shoulders.

What Is Cryptocurrency? A Complete Guide On How To Invest In Cryptocurrency By Understanding Digital Assets And Blockchain Technology, Modern Cryptography, Crypto Decentralization, Mining & ICOs As you've already observed, cryptocurrencies (and the lingo that goes with them) have generated quite a commotion in the media, online forums, and possibly even in your dinnertime talks. Despite the hype, the meanings of these phrases continue to baffle many people. As if that’s not enough, you have to try and understand Crypto’s underlying technologies like Blockchain, Decentralization, and ...

In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back at least three millennia and now spans the globe. In The Sum of the People, data scientist Andrew Whitby traces the remarkable history of the census, from ancient China and the Roman Empire, through revolutionary America and Nazi-occupied Europe, to the steps of the Supreme Court.

The digital world offers multiple opportunities for teens to fast-track and grow finances at a young age. But because of its constantly evolving nature, most teens struggle to apply old and new financial concepts and strategies that could make or break the road to financial independence. This guide to personal finance will equip teens with essential money skills and empower you to look forward to the future

Investing is a great way to start building wealth and achieving your financial goals, no matter your age or previous experience. But it also comes with its share of risks, and it’s easy to lose all your money if you don’t know what you’re doing.

In this edition, eight new topics were added to the already-existing chapters. They are “Assessing Risks and Applying a Risk-Based Approach” (chapter 2), “Terrorist Financing Offence” (chapter 5), “Private Banking” (chapter 7), “Prepaid Cards” (chapter 8), “Modern Slavery” (chapter 11), “Fraud” (chapter 13), “Tax Evasion” (chapter 14), and “Confiscation and Provisional Measures” (chapter 15). The second edition uses a mix of different methodologies as opposed to focusing on just one methodology. In addition to the comparative methodology, this edition adopts ...

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today." - What is this book about? This book will teach you how to achieve financial independence in the shortest amount of time possible. It profiles people who have achieved financial independence and retired early. Sometimes VERY early. Why does this book exist? The traditional concept of retirement is a weird one. At some point, society decided everyone should spend their younger and healthier years trading their time for money with the hope that maybe someday you will have enough money so you don't need to work ...

As the founder of financial futures and initiator of Globex, the world’s first global electronic trading system, Leo Melamed revolutionized the finance industry. Man of the Futures, his definitive memoir, recounts Melamed’s journey from Holocaust survivor and accidental runner at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), to one of the most prominent leaders in the world of finance.

The turn of the 2020s will mark an extremely rare convergence of low points for multiple political, economic, and demographic cycles. The result will be a major financial crash and global upheaval that will dwarf the Great Recession of the 2000s - and maybe even the Great Depression of the 1930s. We're facing the onset of what Dent calls "Economic Winter". In Zero Hour, he and Andrew Pancholi explain all of these cycles, which influence everything from currency valuations to election returns, from economic growth rates in Asia to birthrates in Europe.

In Mavericks, Money and Men, football historian Charles Ross chronicles the AFL's key events, including Buck Buchanan becoming the first overall draft pick in 1963, and the 1965 boycott led by black players who refused to play in the AFL All Star game after experiencing blatant racism. He also recounts how the success of the AFL forced a merger with the NFL in 1969, which arguably facilitated the evolution of modern professional football.

From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it, usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles to competitors.

The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously changing system of immense complexity, it offers over 10 billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every 15 years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend? From the tally stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford's fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop.

Modern portfolio theory has failed investors. A change in direction is long overdue. In Getting Back to Business, dividend-investing guru Daniel Peris proposes a radical new approach - radical in that it does away with MPT in favor of a more intuitive, common-sense approach practiced by business people in their own affairs everyday: cash returns on cash investments.

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom - why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions, and you might be surprised to hear the answers coming from an economist.

Ability on its own has never been enough. The best athletes know that their secret weapon is the power of their mind. Dr. Stephen Simpson works with many of the world's top sports stars and poker players. So you want to discover the most effective mind secrets to use in your favourite sport to take your game to at least the next level? Excellent. You will find many in this book. Discover how to unleash your massive potential! These secrets of the top sports stars earned them a whopping total of $447 million in just a single year. Now YOU will discover the secrets of success used by our top ...

Create more personal time and make more money as you build success and wealth through learning real estate investing. This is not a complicated stock investment strategy and it’s much easier than you think! This real estate audiobook presents the "Modern Wealth Building Formula", a remarkably simple yet powerful investing strategy one of the world’s most prominent experts created in order to find, fund, and facilitate properties he built in his real estate business. And the best part is that this formula can work for you too.

In Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, best-selling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of 50 radical inventions that changed the world. Along the way he entertained us with a myriad of great stories and revealed some of the most surprising landmarks in our history.

In Behold the Leviathan: The Unusual Rise of Modern India, Saurabh Mukherjea and Nandita Rajhansa provide a gripping picture of how 1.5 billion Indians are combining to spectacular effect to create a range of social and economic outcomes which have no precedent in any emerging economy. For example, India now has as many chess grandmasters as the United States, and the expertise of its scientists has guided India's space modules to the dark side of the moon, a feat no other country has achieved.

Sostener la sanidad pública, crear puestos de trabajo, dotarnos de infraestructuras modernas, luchar contra la desigualdad, prevenir el apocalipsis climático..., cualquier objetivo ambicioso inevitablemente se topa con la queja de cómo encontrar el dinero para financiar esos proyectos, enraizada en una serie de mitos sobre el déficit que nos obstaculizan de manera sistemática.