American Money

In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.

I can't believe that my parents are making me volunteer at a homeless shelter. It's my last year in college and now they want me to be humble. Whatever, I'll do it. But Then I met Tasha. She's the most attractive woman I've ever seen, and she happens to be black and homeless. My parents never seen that coming, neither did I. But now I'm in love with her and money can't buy the bond that we have.

The conglomerate hires a younger all-girl crew to do their dirty work. As the conglomerate gain power in the luxury underworld, they handle their business by stepping on the toes, necks, and territory by any means necessary to control the black market. But when loose ties start the unravel the conglomerate find themselves in an unlucky place.

Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just 50 years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. With no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule, Korea managed to accomplish a second Asian miracle.

Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners.

Had Jay Gould put his name on a university or concert hall, he would undoubtedly have been a household name today. The son of a poor farmer whose early life was marked by tragedy, Gould saw money as the means to give his family a better life…even if, to do so, he had to pull a fast one on everyone else.

Marco Rubio's parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers, small-business owners, and maybe even a US senator. That was the American Dream - our country's central promise to its people.

D. – Define the Problem; E. – Establish a Plan; B. – Build a Budget; and T. – Trust the Process. D.E.B.T. Free or Die Trying, a 4-week system. I lived paycheck-to-paycheck for a decade. Eventually, I buried myself $30,000 in debt from miscellaneous misadventures funded by credit cards and personal loans. At rock bottom, I spent most months rotating 0-percent interest offers and begging creditors for consolidation loans. When I finally started adulting, I put together my first budget and debt-free plan. With easy-to-follow Call to Actions, this book summarizes the exact 4-step ...

How do you rig an economy? You start with the tax code. In Tax the Rich!, former BlackRock executive Morris Pearl, the millionaire chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, and Erica Payne, the organization's founder, take listeners on an engaging and enlightening insider's tour of the nation's tax code, explaining exactly how "the rich" - and the politicians they control - manipulate the US tax code to ensure the rich get richer, and everyone else is left holding the bag.

The finale of Rocks & Real Estate brings closure to Tiffani and Phaedra's friendship. Tiffani is on a mission to regain everything she's lost over the last few months due to bad associations. Phaedra begins to build a network of low-key hustlers who are moving weight on her command. The former friends both have plans to move on and continue to grow. But can they do it safely? This is a 3 Book Series

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from 45 to 72 years. The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era.

A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P.Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece.

In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream.

Acting as a critical pillar for those seeking to build a rock-solid financial foundation, Financial Literacy for All is a must-have book for working professionals, blue-collar workers, members of young families, and established businesspeople looking for a better, more secure future for themselves and the ones they care about.

This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society.

What happens when a financial innovation bill becomes a blueprint for digital authoritarianism? A GENIUS ACT of Duplicity pulls the mask off the GENIUS Act—Washington’s latest gift to oligarchy disguised as a stablecoin modernization law. Beneath the buzzwords of “efficiency,” “real-time payments,” and “financial inclusion” lies a centralized power grab that rewires the American financial system to benefit Trump-linked entities, sideline states, and eliminate public accountability. This uncompromising exposé breaks down the full machinery of the GENIUS Act, revealing how it...

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The family that hustles together stays together. In the finale of Labels & Legecy, the family pulls together to heal after the murders. Aminah pressures Legecy to tell her the truth. Amir doesn't know his friends from his enemies. Amirah is struggling with family pride and self-acceptance. As danger looms around them will they survive or be taken out? This is a 3 book series. All 3 books are NOW available.

Inflated examines this apparent conflict and makes the argument that such a world view is so ingrained in us that to expect the United States to live in a "deflated" world is simply unrealistic. It skillfully seeks to tell the story of, money inflation and public debt as enduring (and perhaps endearing) features of American life, rather than something we can one day overcome as our policy makers constantly promise.

Today, in the midst of a new economic crisis and severe political discord, the nature of capitalism in United States is at a crossroads. Since the market crash and Great Recession of 2008, historian Jonathan Levy has been teaching a course to help his students understand everything that had happened to reach that disaster and the current state of the economy, but in doing so he discovered something more fundamental about American history. Now, in an ambitious single-volume history of the United States, he reveals how capitalism in America has evolved through four distinct ages.