Author : Jeff Robertson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2007-12
Category : African American men
ISBN : 9780978637323
Violence, intimidation and carnage are the order as Nathan and his brother set out to build the most powerful drug empires in Chicago. However, when God comes knocking Nathan's conscience starts to surface. Will his haunted criminal past get the best of him?
Author : Thayer Cheatham Willis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Estate planning
ISBN : 9780972549400
Author : Eliza Jane Brazier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593198255
A Good Morning America 'January Book That Can Get Us Through Anything' A Most Anticipated Novel of 2022 by The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, PopSugar, Shondaland, Yahoo!, and Crime Reads A destitute woman deceives her way into the guesthouse of a Hollywood Hills mansion and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs in the next intoxicating novel from Eliza Jane Brazier. Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes the game to dangerous levels. The wealthy couple invites self-made success stories to live in their guesthouse and then conspires to ruin their lives. After all, there is nothing worse than a bootstrapper. Demi has always felt like the odds were stacked against her. At the end of her rope, she seizes a risky opportunity to take over another person’s life and unwittingly becomes the subject of the upstairs couple’s wicked entertainment. But Demi has been struggling forever, and she’s not about to go down without a fight. In a twist that neither woman sees coming, the game quickly devolves into chaos and rockets toward an explosive conclusion. Because every good rich person knows: in money and in life, it’s winner takes all. Even if you have to leave a few bodies behind.
Author : Jane Mayer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307947904
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Who are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side, an electrifying work of investigative journalism that uncovers the agenda of this powerful group. In her new preface, Jane Mayer discusses the results of the most recent election and Donald Trump's victory, and how, despite much discussion to the contrary, this was a huge victory for the billionaires who have been pouring money in the American political system. Why is America living in an age of profound and widening economic inequality? Why have even modest attempts to address climate change been defeated again and again? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? In a riveting and indelible feat of reporting, Jane Mayer illuminates the history of an elite cadre of plutocrats—headed by the Kochs, the Scaifes, the Olins, and the Bradleys—who have bankrolled a systematic plan to fundamentally alter the American political system. Mayer traces a byzantine trail of billions of dollars spent by the network, revealing a staggering conglomeration of think tanks, academic institutions, media groups, courthouses, and government allies that have fallen under their sphere of influence. Drawing from hundreds of exclusive interviews, as well as extensive scrutiny of public records, private papers, and court proceedings, Mayer provides vivid portraits of the secretive figures behind the new American oligarchy and a searing look at the carefully concealed agendas steering the nation. Dark Money is an essential book for anyone who cares about the future of American democracy. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist LA Times Book Prize Finalist PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Lukas Prize
Author : Patrick J. Smith
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 2003-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1591606721
Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1429942584
In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
Author : Paul Hellyer
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780969439455
Author : Dan Davies
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1982114932
An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field. The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, when it all unwinds. Financial crime seems horribly complicated, but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what’s theirs. In Lying for Money, veteran regulatory economist and market analyst Dan Davies tells the story of fraud through a genealogy of financial malfeasance, including: the Great Salad Oil swindle, the Pigeon King International fraud, the fictional British colony of Poyais in South America, the Boston Ladies’ Deposit Company, the Portuguese Banknote Affair, Theranos, and the Bre-X scam. Davies brings new insights into these schemes and shows how all frauds, current and historical, belong to one of four categories (“long firm,” counterfeiting, control fraud, and market crimes) and operate on the same basic principles. The only elements that change are the victims, the scammers, and the terminology. Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some of the most famous frauds of the modern age. Now he reveals the big picture that emerges from their labyrinths of deceit and explains how fraud has shaped the entire development of the modern world economy.
Author : Melia Kuhna
Publisher : Melia Kuhna
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In the heart of a cozy town, Rayne and Willow, two inseparable adults, were a duo destined for laughter and adventure. They were there for each other through thick and thin. But as all friendships go through a rough patch, so did theirs. In the middle of a dream vacation that quickly turned into a nightmare, Rayne and Willow bond was tested, their friendship now hanging in the balance. The evil side of a once-beloved bestie emerged, casting a sinister shadow over the bonds that were supposed to last forever. Lies, jealousy, and backstabbing ruined it all. Suddenly, Rayne was lost in a maze of deception, betrayed by her once-BFF Willow. Could their friendship weather the storm, or would it crumble under the weight of lies and betrayal?
Author : Ann Pettifor
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1786631377
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it? In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must, reclaim control over money production and restrain the out-of-control finance sector so that it serves the interests of society, as well as the needs of the ecosystem. The Production of Money examines and assesses popular alternative debates on, and innovations in, money, such as “green QE” and “helicopter money.” She sets out the possibility of linking the money in our pockets (or on our smartphones) to the improvements we want to see in the world around us.
