New Money

Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of eight billion humans, combined with the relentless pursuit of economic growth in the name of "progress", has stressed the planet beyond its limits. We must act now.

If you're like me, you watched The Secret, attended seminars, and studied every other New Age and new thought authors and teachers, but with little success. Eventually, I combined the different advice I'd received, and started to receive what I've nick-named "Magic Money." But don't get me wrong - this isn't the woo-woo, Law of Attraction stuff you've heard before. Magic Money is practical prosperity that, when you practice it, works like a charm. And, it usually starts within 24 hours!

The crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers marked the fourth systemic transformation of capitalism since the late 18th century. Capitalism was not destroyed by the crisis, but it was irrevocably changed. This provocative audiobook shows how the forces that precipitated the financial meltdown of 2007-2009 are now creating a new and stronger version of the global capitalist system. This system will continue to be led and shaped by the U.S. if its businesses and politicians play their cards well.

In life, money exerts significant control, while freedom holds paramount importance. In this book, you will discover a path to attain both. Jim shares his personal journey, detailing his transition from childhood scarcity and homelessness to adult wealth and abundance, offering guidance on how you can achieve the same. Jim challenges conventional beliefs about money, shedding light on the real principles in a straightforward and easily understandable manner.

Veteran venture capitalist Randy Komisar and finance executive Jantoon Reigersman share no-nonsense, counterintuitive guidelines to help anyone build a successful startup. Over the course of their careers, Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman continue to see startups crash and burn because they forget the timeless lessons of entrepreneurship. But, as Komisar and Reigersman show, you can beat the odds if you quickly learn what insiders know about what it takes to build a healthy foundation for a thriving venture.

You are invited to live vicariously through the eyes of Dan Carter, who finds himself at a crossroads. He's worked hard throughout his life to get good at earning money. Sometimes he wins, sometimes he loses, but he is obsessed with the game. On the brink of financial ruin and with no direction or plans, Dan is forced to realize that he has been playing the wrong game his whole life. Unlikely mentors help him take a leap of faith and commit to a unique program with a seemingly impossible plan to help him achieve financial freedom in a short time through real estate investing.

In the new edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org, Lifehacker.com and in the New York Times, best-selling author Scott Berkun pulls the best lessons from the history of innovation, including the recent software and web age, to reveal powerful and surprising truths about how ideas become successful innovations - truths people can easily apply to the challenges of today.

In this new volume, Charles Huff answers those age-old questions: Isn't blogging dead? Is selling on Etsy really helped by a couple of blog posts? And how do you create blog content that helps sell on Etsy without losing your frickin' mind?

Inspiring couples to plan their wedding in a way that is meaningful to them, The New Wedding Book debunks the "traditions," makes sense of realistic budgets, offers brilliant advice from real-life couples, and confronts the crushing pressure for weddings to be perfect.

With the onslaught of cloud solutions, consumerization of technology, and increasingly tech-savvy business people, it's time for a manifesto for leaders who recognize - and are nervous about - the demands of the digital age. Whether you're an executive, department head, or IT manager, The New IT provides an action-ready blueprint for building and strengthening the role of IT in your company - and prescribing IT's future.

Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple - over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and humor that infuse his hugely popular personal finance column, Ron Lieber offers a much-needed roadmap to help families navigate this difficult and often confusing journey.

Bitcoin exists as a digital cryptocurrency designed to resolve the disharmony between the way money moves online and the global nature of the Internet. The Internet as an infrastructure has already partially eliminated key barriers to consumption, including both geography and time. However, the processes by which transactions are paid for online inevitably requires the presence of a trusted third party (MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal). This stems from the fact that traditional currencies do not exist online, only the promise of payment by the buyer to the seller.

Age of Discovery explores a world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks: how do we share more widely the benefits of unprecedented progress? How do we endure the inevitable tumult generated by accelerating change? How do we each thrive through this tangled, uncertain time? From gains in health, education, wealth and technology to crises of conflict, disease and mass migration, the similarities between today's world and that of the 15th century are both striking and prophetic: we have been here before.

For previous generations, living within your means was a simple formula. Now, with the staggering rise in health-care, medical, and housing costs, millions of people find themselves skating from paycheck to paycheck with no idea how to move forward.

It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell argue that our way of thinking about and pursuing innovation has made us poorer, less safe, and — ironically — less innovative. Drawing on years of original research and reporting, The Innovation Delusion shows how the ideology of change for its own sake has proved a disaster.

Are you ready to break free from the endless grind and build lasting wealth on your own terms? Wealth Cycles: How to Build Lasting Income Every 3 to 5 Years reveals the proven step-by-step system to create steady income and grow your net worth every 3 to 5 years—without the risk and stress of starting from scratch. Whether you are a first-time buyer or a seasoned investor, this book equips you with the mindset, knowledge, and action plan to build sustainable wealth—one smart deal at a time.

Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas, and more people were dying every day as the weapons of choice evolved from hatchets to automatic weapons and even bombs. Welcome to New York City's Chinatown in 1925.

Target Funding is a strategic guide to funding opportunities aimed at specific types of businesses and business owners. You'll learn about all the options available to you - including conventional, alternative, and diversity funding - and how to access them based on your needs and your demographic, industry, location, and other variables.

Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as “the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life”, makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are: an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years. The whole 60- to 80-year-old period is simply new territory, he writes, and the people in this period constitute a whole new phenomenon in the 21st century.

The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures.