Machine generated contents note: -- Part I - Anatomy of a Fund -- 1. Purpose -- 2. Structure -- 3. Economics -- Part II - Diseases & Disorders -- 4. Fees -- 5. Soft Dollars -- 6. Fair Valuation -- 7. Late Trading -- 8. Market Timing -- 9. Selective Disclosure -- Part III - Alternative Remedies -- 10. Retirement Accounts -- 11. Target Date Funds -- 12. Exchange-Traded Funds & Alts -- 13. Money Market Funds -- Part IV - Cures -- 14. A Healthier Use of Mutual Funds

Two series of letters described as "the wellsprings of nearly all ensuing debate on the limits of governmental power in the United States" address the whole remarkable range of issues provoked by the crisis of British policies in North America out of which a new nation emerged from an overreaching empire. Forrest McDonald is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Alabama and author of States' Rights and the Union.

How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis The most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts how the financial crisis and wider urban politics have left millions homeless and in financial desperation across the world. The financialization of housing has become a global catastrophe, leaving millions desperate and homeless. Since the 2008 financial collapse, models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. Using examples from across the globe, Rolnik shows how our cities have been sold to construction companies and banks, while supported by government-facilitated schemes, such as “the right to buy” subsidies and micro-financing. Our homes and neighbourhoods have become the “last subprime frontiers of capitalism,” organised by those who benefit the most.

What is Leverage Over Everything? This book is the blueprint on how to fix your personal credit, build your business credit, and use the power of leverage so you can be in a better position for your financial future. In this book, you'll learn how to duplicate my success and leverage OPM (Other Peoples Money) into profitable business investments. By using the methods modeled by certified credit repair specialists and credit attorneys, you can succeed in repairing your own credit. With a high FICO score, you will qualify for the best financing and be approved for high-limit credit cards. Don't be a victim of erroneous credit reporting or mistakes of the past. Take control of your life by exercising your legal right to clean up your credit and restore your good name! Leverage Over Everything will help you achieve financial goals that previously were not possible because of credit barriers and/or lending restrictions!

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism—but they also set the model for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean, the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers’ racial views and prejudices. Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks’ experimental practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and, eventually, literal erasure from the archives.

Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.

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