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I’m With the Band (Modern Plays)
An Englishman, a Northern Irishman, a Scotsman and a Welshman walked into a recording studio and created The Union. Commercially successful and critically acclaimed, the pioneering indie rock band is now on the verge of breaking up. When financial disaster strikes and Scottish guitarist Barry leaves the band, artistic differences go head to head with …
Read More »Avoiding the Fall: China’s Economic Restructuring
The days of rapid economic growth in China are over. Mounting debt and rising internal distortions mean that rebalancing is inevitable. Beijing has no choice but to take significant steps to restructure its economy. The only question is how to proceed. Michael Pettis debunks the lingering bullish expectations for China’s economic rise and details Beijing’s …
Read More »By Michael Pettis – Avoiding the Fall: China’s Economic Restructuring (8/25/13)
[(Avoiding the Fall: China’s Economic Restructuring )] [Author: Michael Pettis] [Sep-2013]
Avoiding the Fall: China’s Economic Restructuring by Michael Pettis (2013-09-23)
The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System
Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America’s broken education system in order to fix it. Whether or not you have children, you know that education is vital to the …
Read More »Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de Sureté jusqu’en 1827, tome II (French Edition)
Extrait: …Saint-Germain, à qui je communiquai le lendemain mes remarques, sans lui dire toutefois que j’eusse brûlé ma carriole, m’avoua enfin que le cadavre d’un roulier assassiné par Blondy, entre Louvres et Dammartin, y avait été caché jusqu’à ce qu’on eut trouvé l’occasion de le jeter dans un puits. Cet homme, l’un des plus audacieux …
Read More »Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de Sureté jusqu’en 1827, tome I (French Edition)
Extrait: …que je serais brigadier, c’est-à-dire que je présiderais à la répartition des vivres entre mes commensaux; j’eus en conséquence un assez bon lit, tandis que les autres couchèrent sur des lits de camp. En quatre jours, je fus connu de tous les prisonniers; mais quoi qu’on eût la plus haute opinion de mon courage, …
Read More »The purchasing power of money; its determination and relation to credit, interest and crises
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: …for by the increasing volume of trade and the successive demonetization of silver by various countries. The foregoing parallelism between monetary …
Read More »Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de Sureté jusqu’en 1827, tome III (French Edition)
Extrait: …leur montre au milieu de ses compagnes, ils la reconnaissent parfaitement: une confrontation légale s’en suivit, et la fille Bailly, accablée par l’évidence, fit des aveux qui lui valurent huit ans de réclusion. Elle eut tout le temps de dire son meâ culpâ. Cette femme avait accusé de ses vols deux de ses camarades, …
Read More »Karl Marx and the Close of His System; A Criticism
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: … CHAPTER IV THE ERROR IN THE MARXIAN SYSTEMITS ORIGIN AND RAMIFICATIONS HE evidence that an author has contra dieted himself …
Read More »Recent Literature on Interest (1884-1899); A Supplement to Capital and Interest,
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: … RECENT LITERATURE ON INTEREST CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Since the appearance of the first edition of my work the problem of …
Read More »The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education
With the soaring cost of higher education, has the value a college degree been turned upside down. College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980. Half of all recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, revealing a deep disconnect between higher education and the job market. It is no surprise everyone is asking: Where …
Read More »The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education by Charles Hugh Smith (2013-09-07)
The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education by Smith Charles Hugh (2013-09-07) Paperback
The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
As today’s preeminent doomsday investor Mark Spitznagel describes his Daoist and roundabout investment approach, “one gains by losing and loses by gaining.” This is Austrian Investing, an archetypal, counterintuitive, and proven approach, gleaned from the 150-year-old Austrian School of economics, that is both timeless and exceedingly timely. In The Dao of Capital, hedge fund manager …
Read More »Immoral Symphony
How do a successful surgeon and a senator’s administrative assistant find themselves with Lafayette Park as their residence? Dr. Mark Puccini and Maddie Chapelle are among the homeless who call the area across from the White House home. Following a turbulent first meeting in the park, they become allies with a common goal. Together they …
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