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One Year of Living with COVID-19

An Assessment of How ADB Members Fought the Pandemic in 2020

By: Tom Kirchmaier,Carsten Gerner-Beuerle

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One Year of Living with COVID-19

An Assessment of How ADB Members Fought the Pandemic in 2020

By: Tom Kirchmaier,Carsten Gerner-Beuerle

Using ADB COVID-19 Policy Database, this report provides information of the amounts announced by all members of the Asian Development Bank during 2020 to combat the effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It also analyzes the specific measures taken, classified into liquidity support, credit creation, long-term lending, equity support, and health and income support. The analysis focuses on the financial statement effects of a given measure, in particular: (i) who, if anyone, bears the financial burden of the measure and in what form?; and (ii) does the measure create more debt or more income (e.g., net worth or equity, other things being equal) for the recipients?

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Asian Development Bank

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9292628143

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9789292628147

Panic Scrip of 1893, 1907 and 1914

An Illustrated Catalog of Emergency Monetary Issues

By: Neil Shafer,Tom Sheehan

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Panic Scrip of 1893, 1907 and 1914

An Illustrated Catalog of Emergency Monetary Issues

By: Neil Shafer,Tom Sheehan

This extensively illustrated work catalogs all known U.S. emergency currency issues of the panics of 1893, 1907 and 1914. Nearly 900 photographs show most types of these privately produced substitutes for money. The book also includes contextual historical information and authoritative appendices by Steve Whitfield on labor scrip and Loren Gatch on the background leading to these currency issues.

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McFarland

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0786475773

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9780786475773

The Taxation of Companies 2023

By: Tom Maguire

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The Taxation of Companies 2023

By: Tom Maguire

This flagship title, also known as "Feeney", provides the most comprehensive analysis and commentary available on the taxation of companies in Ireland. Written by Tom Maguire, this new edition is updated to the Finance Act 2022. An extremely practical book, it features detailed worked examples and extensive references to case law throughout the work. The guidance and advice outlines how to successfully apply new tax reliefs, keeping your client's tax liabilities as low as possible. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Irish Tax online service.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526524112

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The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think

The Foolish Guide to Personal Finance

By: David Gardner,Tom Gardner

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The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think

The Foolish Guide to Personal Finance

By: David Gardner,Tom Gardner

The Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of the New York Times Bestseller That Focuses on Personal Finance for Every Budget -- and Every Stage of Life Taking control of your personal finances is the first -- and most important -- step toward successful investing and a secure future. The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think, now fully updated and expanded, provides guidance for anyone trying to balance lifestyle aspirations and financial realities. The latest edition of this Motley Fool bestseller covers topics such as: Getting out of debt...and into the stock market Turning your bank account into a moneymaker Using Fool.com and the Internet to learn about all things financial -- from buying a home to getting the best deal on a car Saving enough to send your children to the colleges of their dreams

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Simon and Schuster

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0743216121

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After Occupy

Economic Democracy for the 21st Century

By: Tom Malleson

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After Occupy

Economic Democracy for the 21st Century

By: Tom Malleson

These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the process, and the difficulties of mass participation in complex systems as just a few reasons why the system is flawed. The Occupy movement in 2011 proved that there is an emphatic dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs, particularly with the economy, but, ultimately, it failed to produce any coherent vision for social change. So what should progressives be working toward? What should the economic vision be for the 21st century? After Occupy boldly argues that democracy should not just be a feature of political institutions, but of economic institutions as well. In fact, despite the importance of the economy in democratic societies, there is very little about it that is democratic. Questioning whether the lack of democracy in the economy might be unjust, Tom Malleson scrutinizes workplaces, the market, and financial and investment institutions to consider the pros and cons of democratizing each. He considers examples of successful efforts toward economic democracy enacted across the globe, from worker cooperatives in Spain to credit unions and participatory budgeting measures in Brazil and questions the feasibility of expanding each. The book offers the first comprehensive and radical vision for democracy in the economy, but it is far from utopian. Ultimately, After Occupy offers possibility, demonstrating in a remarkably tangible way that when political democracy evolves to include economic democracy, our societies will have a chance of meaningful equality for all.

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Oxford University Press

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0199330115

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Monetary and Exchange System Reforms in China

An Experiment in Gradualism

By: Mr.Bernard Laurens,Mr.Hassanali Mehran,Mr.Marc Quintyn,Mr.Tom Nordman

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Monetary and Exchange System Reforms in China

An Experiment in Gradualism

By: Mr.Bernard Laurens,Mr.Hassanali Mehran,Mr.Marc Quintyn,Mr.Tom Nordman

In 1978, China embarked on a gradual but far-reaching reform of its economic system. This paper focuses on the achievements so far in reforming the financial sector, the legal framework for financial transactions, the payments system, and the monetary policy and foreign exchange system. It also analyzes the tasks ahead to achieve the goals set in these areas for the year 2000.

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International Monetary Fund

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1557755620

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SADCC Beyond Transportation

The Challenge of Industrial Cooperation

By: Tom Østergaard

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SADCC Beyond Transportation

The Challenge of Industrial Cooperation

By: Tom Østergaard

This is a book on economic co-operation in southern Africa which looks to the future. The first ten years of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference have been mainly devoted to co-operation in transport and communications, not least to reduce dependence on apartheid South Africa. In order to move to an offensive to combat underdevelopment, SADCC has recognized the need to move into intra-regional trade and industrialization. Tom Oestergaard's study is an analysis of the obstacles which have to be overcome, and the minimum of changes that the SADCC countries must agree on to achieve balanced and co-ordinated development. fact that Southern Africa is overwhelmingly oriented to foreign markets and suppliers, and the lack of co-ordination which is heightened by the often diverse role of transnational corporations, banks, and donor agencies. illustration by the study of the tractor industry and SADCC. It serves to illuminate and dramatize the constraints, but also the gains to be made if co-ordination can be made a reality.

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Nordic Africa Institute

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9171062947

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9789171062949

Too-Big-to-Fail in Banking

Impact of G-SIB Designation and Regulation on Relative Equity Valuations

By: Tom Filip Lesche

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Too-Big-to-Fail in Banking

Impact of G-SIB Designation and Regulation on Relative Equity Valuations

By: Tom Filip Lesche

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the latest academic research on the important topic of too-big-to-fail (TBTF) in banking. It explains TBTF from various perspectives including the range of regulatory measures proposed to counter TBTF, most notably the globally accepted regulation of global-systemically important banks (G-SIBs) and its main tool of capital surcharges. The empirical analysis quantifies the shareholder value of the G-SIB attribution by using quarterly observations from more than 750 global banks between Q2 2008 and Q3 2015. The main finding is that G-SIBs are confronted with a substantial relative valuation discount compared to non-G-SIBs. From the end of 2011 until the end of 2015, a stable discount of 0.6x–0.8x price-to-tangible common equity (P/TCE) is statistically highly significant. The results suggest that the G-SIB designation effect, which positively impacts G-SIBs’ share prices because of funding benefits from IGGs, is dominated by the regulatory G-SIB burden effect, which negatively impacts G-SIBs’ share prices because of lower profitability due to capital surcharges and other regulatory requirements placed on G-SIBs. The findings re-open the debate about whether breaking up G-SIBs would unlock shareholder value and whether G-SIBs are regulated efficiently.

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Springer Nature

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3658341823

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The Climax of Capitalism

The U.S. Economy in the Twentieth Century

By: Tom Kemp

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The Climax of Capitalism

The U.S. Economy in the Twentieth Century

By: Tom Kemp

How did the United States become the twentieth century's dominant economy? What is special about America and the American way of capitalism, that favoured such a rapid climb to wealth and power? And, as the old postwar certainties begin to crumble, is the climax of American capitalism already over? These are the themes addressed in this engrossing book, which gives a chronological, analytical account of the American economy from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Reagan era and beyond.

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Routledge

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1317870743

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Money, Money, Money

The Financial Crisis, Part Three

By: Tom Gorman

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Money, Money, Money

The Financial Crisis, Part Three

By: Tom Gorman

This Penguin eSpecial, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Financial Crisis is being written this very moment as the crisis continues to unfold. Part Three in this ongoing series, Money, Money, Money, is available to you now exclusively in electronic format. Part Three begins with a chapter titled "What the Crisis Means for You Right Now" that offers practical ideas, strategies, and advice that you can use to prepare for and respond to the changing economic environment. Part Three also features chapters that explore income, wealth, and savings leading up to the crisis and following it, deficit spending and the Obama budget, and the overhaul of America's banking system. The author of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Financial Crisis will continue to cover America's evolving financial and economic situation in the coming months, so stay tuned for future installments to the series. This ground breaking format combines timely reporting with deeper analysis and a broader perspective than can be found in the newspaper or on the radio, TV, and Internet. And because it's a Complete Idiot's Guide®, the content is explained in an objective, authoritative, and easy-to-understand manner.

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1101109076

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Financial Markets, Institutions and Regulations

Money, Capital and Derivatives Markets

By: Tom Minney,Tefera Tibebu Beyene PhD

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Financial Markets, Institutions and Regulations

Money, Capital and Derivatives Markets

By: Tom Minney,Tefera Tibebu Beyene PhD

Introducing financial and capital markets in plain language. Two expert authors with deep knowledge of the subject have come together to write this accessible guide to capital markets and how they contribute to economic development, jobs and growth. This will tell you how to invest in securities, with the main focus on equities (shares) and bonds. We break down technical terms clearly and provide a glossary. We also cover the money markets, funds, private equity, investment banks and the other main market participants and we highlight the key role of regulators in building efficient and trusted capital markets that people can trust. We add an appendix of the history of capital markets in Ethiopia.

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Keryx Communications Limited

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1915910013

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9781915910011

Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition

Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975

By: Tom Hanchett

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Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition

Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975

By: Tom Hanchett

One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas W. Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, lived in intermingled neighborhoods. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a "checkerboard" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid-twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting-out process, creating a "sector" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other. A new preface by the author confronts the contemporary implications of Charlotte's resegregation and prospects for its reversal.

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UNC Press Books

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1469656450

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Historical Patterns of Industrialization

By: Tom Kemp

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Historical Patterns of Industrialization

By: Tom Kemp

Industrialization is still the factor that distinguishes the modern world from the past, and advanced countries from undeveloped ones. In this revised and expanded edition, Tom Kemp uses the historical record of industrialization to explore key questions about its impact and the significance we assign to it. The book adopts a thematic approach to examine the roles of technology, banking, transport and the state; the fate of the peasantry in an industrializing society; and the changing features of industrial capitalism in the latter part of the 19th century. It features four contrasted case studies from outside Europe - India, Canada, Japan and, for the first time in this second edition, South Africa. It is aimed at 1st year University/Polytechnic students and is suitable for courses in economic history, social history, development studies, applied economics, international economics and area studies.

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Routledge

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1317895134

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EU State Aids

By: Leigh Hancher,Tom Ottervanger,Pieter J. Slot

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EU State Aids

By: Leigh Hancher,Tom Ottervanger,Pieter J. Slot

An invaluable resource to all those involved in advising or litigating matters of state aid, from lawmakers to regulators, lawyers, economists and courts. This fully revised 4th edition presents detailed practical guidance to the law and practice in the European Union as it stands today, together with the relevant primary law materials

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Sweet & Maxwell

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0414046560

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Hatteras Blues

A Story from the Edge of America

By: Tom Carlson

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Hatteras Blues

A Story from the Edge of America

By: Tom Carlson

Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar charter fishing industry on the Outer Banks. Today, Ernal's son, Captain Ernie Foster, struggles to keep the family business alive in a time of great change on the Banks. Within the engaging saga of the rise and decline of one family's livelihood, Carlson relates the history and transformation of Hatteras Village and the high-adrenaline experience of blue-water sportfishing and the industry that surrounds it. Hatteras Blues is their story--a story of triumph and loss, of sturdy Calvinist values and pell-mell American progress, and of fate and luck as capricious as the weather.

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0807898368

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Transformation of Scotland

The Economy since 1700

By: Tom M. Devine

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Transformation of Scotland

The Economy since 1700

By: Tom M. Devine

This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy over the last three centuries to appear in a generation. Written by leading scholars in the field, it presents 'state of the art' research in an accessible style to all those interested in understanding the historical context of modern Scotland. Fresh interpretations are revealed on such key and controversial issues as the impact of the Union of 1707, the Clearances, the rise and fall of Scottish heavy industry and the recent transformation of the modern economy. The distinctive features of the Scottish economic system are stressed but these are also analysed within a British and international context. The focus of the volume is both broad and detailed with full treatment of agriculture, finance, industry and the service sector as well as the impact of momentous economic changes on the lives of the people and the massive new role in the twentieth century of the state in economic affairs. At a time of intense debate on the present and future condition of Scotland under a devolved parliament and executive, this book provides the essential background and the long-run perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing the nation.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748653341

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Fly Fishing for Trout

The Next Level

By: Tom Rosenbauer

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Fly Fishing for Trout

The Next Level

By: Tom Rosenbauer

Fly fishers often ask Tom Rosenbauer how they can take their angling to the next level, and in his latest book the Orvis manager, expert fly fisher, instructor, tier, and award-winning author sets out to help them do just that. With forty years in the business, Rosenbauer knows the information fly fishers need to step up their game—whatever the level. Tom answers the top questions asked by anglers looking to take the next step. He offers advice on casting and rigging techniques that are beyond the basic level taught in fly-fishing schools but are essential if you want to be more successful, and he includes QR codes to take you to videos of his teaching tips in action.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0811765571

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economics, 2nd Edition

By: Tom Gorman

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economics, 2nd Edition

By: Tom Gorman

Dollars and sense. For both general readers and students, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Economics, Second Edition, clearly explains macroeconomics and microeconomics, covering the dynamics of the markets, consumer behavior, business, budgets and taxation, recession and expansion, unemployment and inflation, fiscal policy, and international trade. This user-friendly second edition also discusses depression, wartime economics, and situational economics such as healthcare and energy. ? With the economy topping the headlines every day, the timing is right for a second edition ? Will appeal to anyone getting an MBA or taking economics courses, as well as general readers who want to learn about economics in terms they can understand

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Penguin

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1101478381

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Nazi Gold and Klaus Barbie

By: Tom Bower

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Nazi Gold and Klaus Barbie

By: Tom Bower

Two shocking exposés of Nazi cruelty and international collusion from “one of the finest investigative journalists” (The Washington Times). Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe’s Jews and Holocaust Survivors This riveting exposé reveals the shocking truth about how the Swiss banking industry knowingly collaborated with the Third Reich during the darkest era in modern history. With the knowledge and acquiescence of the Swiss government, hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims were systematically hidden away in Swiss bank accounts. For the next half century, Swiss authorities engaged in a covert campaign of lies, subterfuge, and corruption to hide the wealth from its rightful owners—concentration camp survivors and the families of the slain—while freely dispensing the illegally obtained funds to fugitive Nazis. Nazi Gold is an explosive account of state-endorsed crimes and atrocities; of former victims fighting courageously for their due in the face of prejudice, hatred, and indifference; and of the dedicated US Treasury agents who worked tirelessly for decades to right an unconscionable wrong. “Compelling [and] carefully researched.” —The Washington Times Klaus Barbie: The Butcher of Lyons In 1942, SS Gestapo chief Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie was dispatched to Nazi-occupied France after leaving his bloodstained mark on the Netherlands. In Lyons, Barbie was entrusted with “cleansing” the region of Jews, French Resistance fighters, and Communists, an assignment he undertook with sadistic cruelty. Thousands died on Barbie’s orders. Following the D-Day invasion, Barbie fled, slaughtering all his prisoners. But the war’s conclusion was not the end of the “Butcher of Lyons.” With the dawning of the Cold War, Barbie went on to find a new employer: the US intelligence services. He escaped to South America, where he lived a free man until extradited to France to finally stand trial for war crimes in 1983. “[A] taut, richly backgrounded story.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Open Road Media

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1504054970

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Why Government Can Never Fix a Down Economy

And Why It Should Never Try

By: Tom Shipley

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Why Government Can Never Fix a Down Economy

And Why It Should Never Try

By: Tom Shipley

A down economy occurs when too many businesses see incoming orders shrink too much. But always, among the 29 million firms that comprise our marketplace, some businesses will be doing well. In the past, we devised a way to find them, fund them, and begin the healing process. Nobody knows, regardless of studies or the number of degrees held, who those firms or business sectors, in aggregate, are. But our government, invariably, selects some, presents them with tax money as stimulus, and the economy continues to sleep. The money was wasted and no national or market purpose was served. Citizen-households, in dealing with all 29 million businesses, unintentionally are funding those poised for growth -- and at no cost to taxpayers. The private sector has 132 million citizen-households that spend money to buy an infinite variety of products or services, every day, that they need or desire from those businesses. And that money, secondarily, is finding all of the firms peculiarly poised for growth and is feeding them. With time, the market will heal and grow if government does nothing. But government can shorten the period of distress: Remove business-retarding regulations. And it can shorten it much further if the private sector, additionally, is allowed to retain a little more of its tax money -- to further stimulate those poised. To make the nation’s period of economic distress the absolute shortest, the government has to do this: Give all private sector businesses more money (lower tax rates with no time limit), remove any regulatory stumbling blocks to business (for example, let drilling begin on federal land), give the private citizens more money to spend (lower tax rates with no time limit), and stand back. The widespread distribution of funding will find those elements that are poised for growth, and if enough elements are found, the correction will begin - and continue, like the falling of dominoes. Government can’t do anything more. If the market isn’t ready, it may take more time, and permanence of all the actions is required. Today, world-wide, economies are in turmoil; our consumers’ money could find some businesses, poised, that left for foreign shores early on, now ready to return.

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1478718854

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Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking

By: Tom Lott,Derek Loosvelt,Mary Phillips-Sandy,Richard Roberts,Vault (Firm)

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Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking

By: Tom Lott,Derek Loosvelt,Mary Phillips-Sandy,Richard Roberts,Vault (Firm)

Provides information on investment banking, covering the basics of financial markets, interviews, career paths, and job responsibilities.

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1581319061

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Undercurrent

Sex Slaves & Vengeance

By: Tom Edwards

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Sex Slaves & Vengeance

By: Tom Edwards

This is not a pleasant book. It depicts the worst side of lifethe extreme cruelty of gangs that live off demeaning women. I did not like writing it, but I thought it needed to be exposed. A senior police officer runs afoul of the local boss of an international crime syndicate who has his wife gangbanged and beaten up. He vows retribution outside of the parameters of the law and hunts the gang down to exact his revenge. During his pursuit of the gang, he meets up with the brother of his wife, who is attached to an M16 and who has the same intention. Jason has been ordered to destroy the women-smuggling side of a massive crime syndicate based in America; they team up. The final chapter asks why the police do not clean up this appalling trade in humanity.

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1543408915

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Vengeance Is Mine

By: Tom Edwards

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Vengeance Is Mine

By: Tom Edwards

This is not a pleasant book. It depicts the worst side of lifethe extreme cruelty of gangs that live off demeaning women. I did not like writing it, but I thought it needed to be exposed. A senior police officer runs afoul of the local boss of an international crime syndicate who has his wife gang banged and beaten up. He vows retribution outside of the parameters of the law and hunts the gang down to exact his revenge. During his pursuit of the gang, he meets up with the brother of his wife, who is attached to M16 who has the same intention. Jason has been ordered to destroy the women-smuggling side of a massive crime syndicate based in America; they team up. The final chapter asks why the police do not clean up this appalling trade in humanity.

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1543402925

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How We Got Here

By: Tom Gorman

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How We Got Here

By: Tom Gorman

In this Penguin eSpecial, 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Financial Crisis' is being written this very moment as the crisis continues to unfold. Part One in this ongoing series, 'How We Got Here', is available to you now exclusively in electronic format. Part One begins with a chapter titled 'What the Crisis Means for You Right Now' that offers practical ideas, strategies and advice that you can use to prepare for and respond to the changing economic environment. Part One also features chapters about the housing bubble, the credit crunch, and the ensuing financial bailouts. The author of 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Financial Crisis' will continue to cover America's evolving financial and economic turmoil in the coming months, so stay tuned for future installments to the series. This ground-breaking format combines timely reporting with deeper analysis and a broader perspective than can be found in the newspaper or on the radio, TV, and internet.

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Nazi Gold

The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors

By: Tom Bower

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Nazi Gold

The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors

By: Tom Bower

A “compelling [and] carefully researched” account of greed, duplicity, and an unholy partnership between Switzerland and the Third Reich (The Washington Times). In the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, the European continent fell, nation by nation, to Nazi Germany’s invincible war machine. But Switzerland remained neutral during World War II, taking no side and bowing to no master. For a long time after, that was the accepted history—but it was a lie. Respected British investigative journalist Tom Bower reveals the shocking truth about how the government of Switzerland and the Swiss banking industry knowingly collaborated with the Reich during the darkest era in modern history. With the knowledge and acquiescence of the Swiss government, hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims—including gold teeth extracted from the mouths of those murdered—were systematically hidden away in Swiss bank accounts. But these crimes did not end with the defeat of Hitler. For the next half century, Swiss authorities engaged in a covert campaign of lies, subterfuge, and corruption to hide the wealth from its rightful owners—concentration camp survivors and the families of the slain—while freely dispensing the illegally obtained funds to fugitive Nazis. Written by “one of the finest investigative journalists in the English-speaking world,” Nazi Gold is an explosive true account of state-endorsed crimes and atrocities; of former victims fighting courageously for their due in the face of prejudice, hatred, and indifference; and of the dedicated US Treasury agents who worked tirelessly for decades to right an unconscionable wrong (The Washington Times).

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Fingers: The Man Who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and Cost Us €5.4bn

Michael Fingleton: The Man Who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and Cost Us €5.4bn

By: Richard Curran,Tom Lyons

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Michael Fingleton: The Man Who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and Cost Us €5.4bn

By: Richard Curran,Tom Lyons

Michael Fingleton was an Irish banking legend, the ultimate big money lender. He took Irish Nationwide Building Society from an obscure mortgage provider to a multi-billion euro property-lending casino, leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab for €5.4 billion when the society eventually went bust. Fingleton earned over €2 million per year and built up a pension fund worth €27 million. But it was his loans to a small group of property developers and the way the society was mismanaged, under the nose of the Financial Regulator that cost Irish citizens so dearly. In Fingers, Tom Lyons and Richard Curran use previously unpublished material to blow open the failings of the society's internal systems and controls, its culture and the dominance of one man. They get inside the organisation and bring startling new revelations about how money was really lent out to a small group of developers, how INBS failed, and what the Financial Regulators knew. Fingers explores: - Fingleton's connections with politics, the media and the powerful - How the society wasn't just a lender but became a player, taking stakes and shares in the profits of the ventures it bankrolled - How Fingleton quaffed vintage wine in the finest restaurants, stayed in five-star hotels and put it all on the society's tab - How ordinary borrowers in arrears were treated ruthlessly, while the mega-rich walked away owing billions to us. Fingers goes to the heart of the state's failure to hold anybody to account for the Irish financial crash. It highlights the need for a proper banking inquiry to explain to the public what went wrong, how, and who is to blame.

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Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff

An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor

By: Tom Zaniello

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Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff

An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor

By: Tom Zaniello

The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Viewers can turn to this comprehensive, annotated guide for films about unions or labor organizations; labor history; working-class life where an economic factor is significant; political movements if they are tied closely to organized labor; production or the struggle between labor and capital from a "top-down"—either entrepreneurial or managerial—perspective. Each entry includes a critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and websites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features many more documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films.Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor features fifty-eight production stills and frame enlargements. It also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labor films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements. To read Tom Zaniello's blog on the cinema of labor and globalization, featuring even more reviews, visit http://tzaniello.wordpress.com.Praise for the earlier edition—"Zaniello has created a useful and far-reaching guide with abundant information.... These are the sorts of films that prove what James Agee wrote in these pages nearly fifty years ago: 'The only movies whose temper could possibly be described as heroic, or tragic, or both, have been made by leftists.'"—The Nation"Zaniello has done a monumental job identifying the films that should be included in this genre.... Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff is sorely needed and long overdue."—Cineaste"An engaging and opinionated book.... Even though mining, trucking, Jimmy Hoffa, and class warfare are the book's major themes, what holds the project together is Zaniello's sense of fun and wit. [Zaniello is] a better writer than most major film critics."—Village Voice Literary Supplement

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Cornell University Press

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1501711199

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Great Recession

An Unbiased Analysis of the Biggest Economic Crisis Since the Great Depression

By: Tom Gorman

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Great Recession

An Unbiased Analysis of the Biggest Economic Crisis Since the Great Depression

By: Tom Gorman

The truth behind the causes and effects of America's economic downturn The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Financial Crisis explains the root causes and connects the events and issues with the problems that have confronted Americans over the course of more than a year, giving readers an unvarnished, unbiased, and in-depth analysis of the factors that lead up to the crisis, the major events that defined it, and the decisions and ramifications that resulted from it. • Interest in the financial crisis continues to build with several high-profile books and an HBO movie due out in 2010, as well as the success of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story • Much of the financial crisis writing to date has been of the breaking news variety—this book will be one of the first books published after the smoke has cleared to offer a comprehensive analysis of what happened and how

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1101198028

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Industrialization in Nineteenth Century Europe

By: Tom Kemp

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Industrialization in Nineteenth Century Europe

By: Tom Kemp

Written for the layman as well as the economic historian this famous and much-used book not only presents a general synthesis of the pattern of European industrialisation; it also provides material for a comparative study by illustrating, in separate case studies, the specific characteristics of development in Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Italy.

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Routledge

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1317871049

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Transnational Crime in the Americas

By: Tom J. Farer

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Transnational Crime in the Americas

By: Tom J. Farer

Exposing the main characteristsics and effects of criminal enterprises in the Americas, this book considers realistic strategies for combating them.

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Psychology Press

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0415923018

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Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance

By: Tom Lavers

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Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance

By: Tom Lavers

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. After more than a decade of construction, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology and politics of the Nile Basin. The GERD is the culmination of a dam building boom carried out over three decades and a key pillar of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) efforts to bring about an Ethiopian 'Renaissance'. Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance provides a detailed examination of the domestic and international political dynamics that shaped Ethiopia's dam building, drawing on extensive primary research including more than a hundred interviews with politicians, technocrats, consultants, and donors. The authors reflect on the implications of Ethiopia's dam building for broader debates about the role of the state in late development, the dynamics of twenty-first century dam building, and the political economy of renewable energy transitions. A central argument of the book is that Ethiopia's dam building is symbolic of the successes and failures of the EPRDF's 'developmental state'. On the one hand, this dams' boom enhanced electricity generation capacity, while constituting a key element of the state infrastructure investment that turned Ethiopia into one of the world's fastest growing economies. In contrast, a politically driven decision-making process undermined electricity planning, contributed to an unsustainable debt burden, and, ultimately, failed to provide reliable electricity access to key users. Following the EPRDF's collapse, the subsequent Prosperity Party government has taken steps away from the state-led development model of its predecessor, while labouring towards the final completion of the GERD. Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations is a series for scholars and students working on African politics and International Relations and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on contemporary developments in African political science, political economy, and International Relations, such as electoral politics, democratization, decentralization, gender and political representation, the political impact of natural resources, the dynamics and consequences of conflict, comparative political thought, and the nature of the continent's engagement with the East and West. Comparative and mixed methods work is particularly encouraged. Case studies are welcomed but should demonstrate the broader theoretical and empirical implications of the study and its wider relevance to contemporary debates. The focus of the series is on sub-Saharan Africa, although proposals that explain how the region engages with North Africa and other parts of the world are of interest. Series Editors: Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham), Peace Medie (University of Bristol), and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford)

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0192699067

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Kleptopia

How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

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Kleptopia

How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November…. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world’s most powerful dictatorships.” –Washington Post In this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes “capitalism’s monster”—global kleptocracy—and reveals how it is corrupting the world around us. They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh Desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London. They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power. In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together four stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption: the troublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles on the secrets of a Swiss bank, the ex-Soviet billionaire constructing a private empire, the righteous Canadian lawyer with a mysterious client, and the Brooklyn crook protected by the CIA. Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years. In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.

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0062883674

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The Advance of African Capital

The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise

By: Tom G. Forrest

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The Advance of African Capital

The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise

By: Tom G. Forrest

Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, Tom Forrest examines the strategies and patterns of development employed by business people from the colonial period to the present. Through a series of highly readable case studies, he provides a broad picture of the various forms of capital accumulation and sectoral advances in trade, transport, manufacture, agriculture, finance and other services. These are set within the context of changing economic opportunities, shifts in power and policy, relations with foreign capital, and attitudes towards private business and the state.

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0813915627

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