Computer Money


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New electronic payment mechanisms together with an emerging global information economy on the Internet are set to change the way we do business. In the centre of all these developments are new electronic payment mechanisms, the financial infrastructure needed to open the electronic marketplace. This book gives a structured overview of these new payment mechanisms by first describing what exactly is possible today, what is currently existing or being developed, and how these systems work. It gives the essential background needed for informed decisions and discussions in the areas of electronic payment systems and electronic commerce.




Turn Your Computer Into a Money Machine


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Learn to make extra money as an online freelance writer who specializes in writing articles for search engine optimization results.







Just Money


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How to use finance as a tool to build a more equitable and sustainable society. Money defines our present and will shape our future. Every investment decision we make adds a chapter to the story of what our world will look like. Although the idea of mission-based finance has been around for decades, there is a gap between organizations' stated intention to "do good" and meaningful impact. Still, some are succeeding. In Just Money, Katrin Kaufer and Lillian Steponaitis take readers on a global tour of financial institutions that use finance as a force for good.




Money and Credit


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This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic economic institutions, money and credit are easy to overlook when they work well. When they malfunction, their importance becomes obvious and demands further investigation. Bruce G. Carruthers and Laura Ariovich examine the social dimensions of money and credit at both the individual and corporate levels, from the development of personal credit in a consumer society to the role of government in the creation of money. In clear prose, they illustrate how the overall economy is governed by the financial system and the flow of capital into, and out of, firms. They also explore the social meanings of money, and how people distinguish between "dirty" and "clean" money. This accessible and engaging book will be essential reading for upper-level students of economic sociology, and those interested in how the bills, coins, and plastic in our pockets shape the world in which we live.




Invest Like the Best


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"Now, complete access to the lucrative investment strategies of today's stock market aces is only a keystroke away. With this remarkable book and disk, you'll easily uncover the stock-picking strategies of the nation's top money managers and learn how to use your computer to emulate the portfolios of Wall Street's wizards in your stock trading." "Invest Like The Best shows you how to pattern your investment program on the methods of today's legendary stock pickers, from Peter Lynch to John Templeton. It does so by marrying James O'Shaughnessy's pioneering quantitative investing techniques with the data crunching power of Value Line's Value/Screen III investment software." "In minutes, you'll learn how to configure your PC to analyze and emulate the investing style of the money manager(s) of your choice. You'll discover which quantitative core factors - cash position, P/E ratio, safety rank, yield, book value, and more - the pros rely on to consistently pinpoint and select the top stocks. And you'll gain strategic insights into how their specific investing styles - from growth to value - impact their performance. More, you'll see exactly which factors consistently show up in top managers' portfolios and how to use them to beat the street." "From here, Invest Like the Best offers step-by-step guidelines and helpful templates for building simple, stable, reliable computer-based stock-picking models based on the masters' standards. Illustrative graphs and solid, concrete advice help you assess your strategy's variability and risk-adjusted return, then closely monitor its ongoing performance. For exceptional results, you'll create a hybrid investing strategy that combines the best elements of various money managers' styles - and outperforms them all." "Before you make your next investment decision, turn to Invest Like the Best and discover how to choose the optimum stock-picking strategies that fall within your risk-tolerance; identify and avoid a bad money manager before you commit your assets; diversify against an investment style falling out of favor and to lower overall portfolio risks; determine if your current mutual fund is changing its investment style, for better or worse; and systematically analyze stock market advice from any source - be it a mutual fund, newsletter, book, or broker." "Invest Like the Best is for every computerized investor who craves the winning edge of high returns and reduced investment risk. By enabling you to analyze and duplicate the profit-driven strategies of today's stock market gurus, it delivers the performance advantage you need to pick portfolios that consistently tear up the market."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved




The Tender Years


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?The Tender Years? is my autobiography, a true and honest account of my life from birth to the present day. It takes in what for many, are taboo subjects: - childhood sexual abuse, self-harm in various measures, and psychiatric care today ? as we leave the 20th Century. My own psychiatric care takes in the hub of ?the System?, the receiving end of in-patient and out-patient or ?client? services ? which is still much in need of improvement. I try to describe the many mistakes that may be made in this ?hit and miss? side of medicine. The book embraces a host of emotional feelings, captured in a format that adults should find inspirational to read. One of the key reasons for writing the book is that it hints of the physical as well as the emotional scars. Hopefully my later years will successively become less ?tender? from these. In offering a light at the end of the tunnel, if QT Saunders got through a tough life and is still standing ? anyone can ? and against all the odds.




InfoWorld


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InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.




Digital Cash


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The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: protecting privacy or bringing down governments, preparing for apocalypse or launching a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. The incredible story of the pioneers of cryptocurrency takes us from autonomous zones on the high seas to the world’s most valuable dump, from bank runs to idea coupons, from time travelers in a San Francisco bar to the pattern securing every twenty-dollar bill, and from marketplaces for dangerous secrets to a tank of frozen heads awaiting revival in the far future. Along the way, Digital Cash explores the hard questions and challenges that these innovators faced: How do we learn to trust and use different kinds of money? What makes digital objects valuable? How does currency prove itself as real to us? What would it take to make a digital equivalent to cash, something that could be created but not forged, exchanged but not copied, and which reveals nothing about its users? Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today’s cryptocurrency explosion.




PC Mag


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PCMag.com is a leading authority on technology, delivering Labs-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. Our expert industry analysis and practical solutions help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology.