Noreena Hertz, one of the world’s leading experts on economic globalization, looks at the history of third-world debt and its crippling effects on people in developing countries.
Drawing from her impressive debt-relief campaign, fact-finding travels, and meetings with top-ranking officials, Hertz offers a probing analysis of the origins of this rampant burden and its evolution through the decades. With clear principles of justice, she uncovers the imbalance of power and misuse of corrupt dictators and reckless lenders.
Readers receive tips, resources and techniques for half-price living. Financial well-being is not measured by one’s income. It’s the money you don’t spend that gives you freedom to live the life you love.
Our prediction for global economies and global asset markets heading into the turbulent 2016–2017 period is not meant to be alarmist, or a “Dr Doom” style forecast, but a realistic assessment of the facts around debt, demographics and disinflation, and then an extrapolation from those factors to individual economies and markets. Rather than simply being doomsayers, we intend to pen another book in 2017–2018, to take advantage of the expected undervaluation of global assets and economies that will occur as a result of the next recessionary phase. As such, we like to be contrarians, in both boom and bear cycles. Our strong sense is that the bull cycle that started in 2009, now nearly 7 years old, is slowly maturing. The time to make major asset allocation changes, whether you are a small investor or a major pension fund investor, is now, in advance of the turmoil. We are clear that we expect shares, property and other growth assets to fall by 30–50% in the coming 2 years. Commodities will fall by more than that, and currencies will fall by a fraction less. Either way, some major opportunities are there for the picking. We strongly advise our readers to think outside of the square, challenge consensus, be contrarian, and think for themselves, logically and sensibly. If they do, that is the path not just to profit but importantly to capital preservation in the turbulent years that lie ahead of us.
When 25 yr. old waitress, Brielle, receives a mysterious check for $250,000, she uses the money to pay for her mother’s very expensive cancer treatment, saving her life. Two years later, she is called to pay back her debt. All she has to do is travel to an isolated mansion and work for one year as a personal assistant to an arrogant asshole whom she hates. Wyatt Wild is a gorgeous alpha billionaire playboy who is not used to girls saying no to him. He has bedded models, actresses and socialites and then a waitress from some crappy roadside cafe dares to reject him. Who does she think she is? Wyatt always gets what he wants and his desires focus on the innocent and stubborn Brielle. Neither give in easily and they quickly get locked in a game of seduction. For a limited time, this standalone novel contains a substantial excerpt of the first book in the series, Falling for the CEO. Both are steamy books which follow two different couples. This is a hot and steamy romance, which is ideal for fans of Sylvia Day, J.S. Cooper, and Lauren Blakely
As their children grow up parents face increasing need to develop and guide their wise formal use of money. In the teen years, acquiring a credit card is a first foray. Then purchasing a first auto comes along. As post-secondary education nears, student loans arise. Graduation moves a better auto and a first condo or home purchase to the horizon. Increasing complexity and monetary magnitude of loan needs can be a scary challenge for people relatively new to debt.
Debt is a 4-Letter Word, but it need not be! is a book series that helps parents and young people to effectively maneuver through first-time debt worries. In The College Experience the reader walks along as a fictionalized Dad and daughter go through her independent need for a credit card for ongoing college expenses, financing her college dreams, considering graduate school, and planning for post-graduation repayment of student loans. One observes Dad’s caring teaching path; taken atop informed, strategic borrowing strategies he shares and uses as they make important decisions and take vital steps together. You see a parent become less and less overseeing and a daughter more and more self-reliant.
Debt is a 4-Letter Word, but it need not be! The College Experience volume includes:
• 20 LESSONS about typical college-related debt needs young families face
• 42 detailed hypothetical SITUATIONS numerically covering borrowing circumstances commonly encountered in real life college experiences
• Step-by-step explanation of needed calculation techniques
• 39 easy-to-do EXERCISES for the reader to try the illustrated calculation methods
• Table-based aids to simplify/expedite applying the detailed calculations procedures
While pragmatic and detailed, the book is written in a fun, narrative style so the reader will enjoy learning what otherwise might be unexciting financial matters.
Would You Like to Have Zero Debt?
Eight out of 10 Americans owe some form of debt. So there’s a good chance that you, or someone you know, would like to become debt free. From excessive credit card bills and mounting student loans to hefty car payments and big mortgages, debt can be crippling – and not just financially.
Debt takes a toll on you in many ways. It hurts your ability to save, invest and create a better life. It impacts your physical, mental and emotional health. Too much debt even spoils relationships, leading to arguments about money and divorce.
Whether you recently got into debt due to circumstances beyond your control, or your own poor choices have kept you in debt for as long as you can remember, know this: Debt does not have to remain a way of life. Regardless of your situation, you can get on the road to financial freedom – and you can do it yourself in the next 30 days!
If you want to dig yourself out of debt once and for all, you need an action plan. This book is your step-by-step, 30-day plan to jumpstart your finances. It’s simple. It’s easy to understand. And it works.
Zero Debt teaches you the exact strategies the author used to pay off $100,000 worth of credit card bills in just three years – without ever missing a single payment. If she can do it, so can you!
In this revised and completely updated version of Zero Debt, you’ll discover:
The best ways to pay off credit card debts (spoiler: it’s not what 99% of experts tell you) How to eliminate your student loans and reduce auto loans Spending and budgeting tips anyone can use – even shopaholics Insider secrets to negotiating with credit card companies and fixing your credit Your legal rights – and what bill collectors can and can not do under the law Recommendations for reputable debt management firms and credit counselors How to shore up your overall finances so you never go back into debt again
Wouldn’t you like to be free from financial worries? Don’t you want to rest at night knowing your bills are paid? You can have peace of mind when it comes to money matters. It all starts by eliminating excessive debt, and using time-tested strategies to save your hard-earned cash.
If you have debts you are Not Alone! According to data taken from The US Census, The Aggregate Revolving Consumer Debt Survey and The Survey of Consumer Finances, 160,000,000 Americans possess credit cards, which is just over half the population of America! More amazingly still, the average credit card debt of $7,219 per household in 2010! So, if you are feeling pinned down by credit card debt, you are certainly not alone! The average indebted American is now poorer than their 1980 counterparts! And this isn’t just an American problem; rather it’s a global problem! Since the end of world war two there has been a consistent push on behalf of the financial sector to push loan facilities, credit cards and all sort of other debts down our throats. We have become a debt based society and even though the 2008 financial meltdown demonstrated the flaws in this system, mouthing really changes as the world economy is based upon debt. While there isn’t much that any of us can individually do for the world economy we can step back and take back control of our finances. In much way the financial reality is like a fence and people are on one side or the other. On one side are the indebted and on the other side are the financially free. While many people repay their debts, within a short space of time they find themselves back in debt all over again. in this book you will be thought not only how to repay your debts but also you shall be thought how to become financially free, for the only way to guarantor your long-term financial wellbeing is to move from debt to wealth and it can be done. We are not talking about get rich quick schemes here; rather we are talking about sensible strategic action, regardless of income, which over time will radically change your financial reality from debtor to investor and from poor to well off! In this book you will learn about: * The five keys to financial freedom * Debt reduction programs * Debt settlement programs * Bankruptcy * Budgeting * Financial planning * How to maintain a budgeting diary * Medium to long -term goal setting * The mind-set reburied to shift from debtor to investor! In this comprehensive book you shall be shown with step by step and practical instructions how to turn your financial situation around. There are no gimmicks, but rather it takes a clear assessment of your financial reality combined with strategic action to turn things around, but it can be done and can be done effectively even if you are an ordinary person earning an ordinary wage! Take the jump today, forget about what everyone else is doing and start to take responsibility of your financial wellbeing back into your own hands!
In this core Financial Peace University lesson, Dave shows you how to become debt free as he walks you through the necessary steps and details of dumping debt with the Debt Snowball method.
The coming financial apocalypse and what government and individuals can do to insulate themselves against the worst shocks
In this controversial book a noted adherent of Austrian School of Economics theories advances the thesis that the United States is fast approaching the end stage of the biggest asset bubble in history. He describes how the bursting of the bubble will cause a massive interest rate shock that will send the US consumer economy and the US government—pumped up by massive Treasury debt—into bankruptcy, an event that will send shockwaves throughout the global economy. Michael Pento examines how policies followed by both the Federal Reserve and private industry have contributed to the impending interest rate disaster and highlights the similarities between the US and European debt crisis. But the book isn’t all doom and gloom. Pento also provides well-reasoned solutions that, government, industry and individuals can take to insulate themselves against the coming crisis.Paints an alarmingly vivid picture of the massive interest rate shock which soon will send consumers and the government into bankruptcyBacked by a wealth of historical and economic data, Pento explains how the bubble was created and what the U.S. can do to mitigate the impending crisisProvides investors with sound strategies for protecting themselves and their assets against the coming financial apocalypseExplains why retirees, in particular, will be at risk as real estate prices decline, pensions weaken, and the bond bubble bursts
Inside the engine-room of China’s economic growth—the China Development Bank
Anyone wanting a primer on the secret of China’s economic success need look no further than China Development Bank (CDB)—which has displaced the World Bank as the world’s biggest development bank, lending billions to countries around the globe to further Chinese policy goals. In China’s Superbank, Bloomberg authors Michael Forsythe and Henry Sanderson outline how the bank is at the center of China’s domestic economic growth and how it is helping to expand China’s influence in strategically important overseas markets.
100 percent owned by the Chinese government, the CDB holds the key to understanding the inner workings of China’s state-led economic development model, and its most glaring flaws. The bank is at the center of the country’s efforts to build a world-class network of highways, railroads, and power grids, pioneering a lending scheme to local governments that threatens to spawn trillions of yuan in bad loans. It is doling out credit lines by the billions to Chinese solar and wind power makers, threatening to bury global competitors with a flood of cheap products. Another $45 billion in credit has been given to the country’s two biggest telecom equipment makers who are using the money to win contracts around the globe, helping fulfill the goal of China’s leaders for its leading companies to “go global.”
Bringing the story of China Development Bank to life by crisscrossing China to investigate the quality of its loans, China’s Superbank travels the globe, from Africa, where its China-Africa fund is displacing Western lenders in a battle for influence, to the oil fields of Venezuela.
Offers a fascinating insight into the China Development Bank (CDB), the driver of China’s rapid economic developmentTravels the globe to show how the CDB is helping Chinese businesses “go global”Written by two respected reporters at Bloomberg News
As China’s influence continues to grow around the world, many people are asking how far it will extend. China’s Superbank addresses these vital questions, looking at the institution at the heart of this growth.