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In The Futures, Emily Lambert, senior writer at Forbes magazine, tells us the rich and dramatic history of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade, which together comprised the original, most bustling futures market in the world. She details the emergence of the futures business as a kind of meeting place for gamblers and farmers and its subsequent transformation into a sophisticated electronic market where contracts are traded at lightning-fast speeds.

Geopolitical Alpha – An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future provides listeners with an original and compelling approach to forecasting the future and beating the markets while doing so. Persuasively written by author, investment strategist, and geopolitical analyst Marko Papic, the book applies a novel framework for making sense of the cacophony of geopolitical risks with the eye towards generating investment-relevant insights.

In this book, Dr. Bibhu Dash & Dr. Sameeh Ullah comprehensively explores the evolving international monetary system, intertwined geopolitical dynamics, and the burgeoning realm of financial technology. This scholarly work delves into the system's complex features, functions, and the far-reaching consequences of globalization. They meticulously dissects both positive and negative frictions within the monetary system, unraveling their repercussions on economies worldwide.

Financial economist George G. Szpiro here tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search for the elusive options pricing formula. From the broker's assistant who published the first mathematical explanation of financial markets to Albert Einstein and other scientists, Pricing the Future retraces the historical and intellectual developments that ultimately led to the widespread use of mathematical models to drive investment strategies on Wall Street.

Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets. Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from...

Written by Eric Butow and Marc Butler, a seasoned expert in finance, this comprehensive guide offers practical advice and actionable steps for managing your finances effectively.

We are entering a golden age of alternative investments. Alternative asset classes including private equity, hedge funds, catastrophe reinsurance, real assets, non-traditional credit, alternative risk premia, digital assets, collectibles, and other novel assets are now available to investors and their advisors in a way that they never have been before. The pursuit of diversification is not as straightforward as it once was – and the classic 60/40 portfolio may no longer be sufficient in helping investors achieve their most important financial goals.

SOFR Futures and Options is the practical guide through the maze of the transition from LIBOR. In the first section, it provides an in-depth explanation of the concepts involved: the repo market and the construction of SOFR; SOFR-based lending markets and the term rate; the secured-unsecured basis; SOFR futures and options and their spread contracts; and margin and convexity. Applying these insights, the second section offers detailed worked-through examples of hedging loans, swaps, bonds, and floors with SOFR futures and options.

Cryptocurrencies are the biggest opportunity of your lifetime, and the crypto gold rush is only just beginning.... Blockchain technology and the cryptocurrencies it enables are being described by some people as the biggest thing since the Internet, but very few people understand it or the opportunities it brings. Enter this down-to-earth guide to understanding what cryptocurrencies are, why it matters and how to make money from them.This book is for everyone who has heard of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and wants to learn more - and make money on the back of it.

En La guía completa de opciones y day trading, descubrirás técnicas de vanguardia que te equiparán para tener éxito en los mercados de ritmo acelerado de hoy. Desde desarrollar la mentalidad disciplinada de un trader hasta elegir las mejores plataformas, esta guía cubre todo lo que necesitas para tomar decisiones informadas y prosperar en el trading. Si estás buscando una forma de convertir el trading en una fuente de ingresos confiable, este libro es tu hoja de ruta esencial.

The Next 20 Years Will Be Completely Different From the Past Current global trends are bleak: weak economic growth, too much debt, declining incomes for the lower 99%, a dangerous addiction to fossil fuels, and ecological destruction -- just to name a few. Many of us understandably feel resigned...

This program is read by the author and contains original interviews with Gary Vee, Mel Tal, and Steve Aoki. National bestselling author and streetwear entrepreneur Bobby Hundreds’s manifesto about NFTs, the future of creativity, and bringing his brand and community into the modern digital...

The face of financial services has evolved – and, along with it, the very nature of financial advice. In an increasingly complex world where people are starving for someone they can trust, the time has come for financial advisors to rise to the occasion and reinvent the value they provide to better serve their clients. Of course, to make this evolutionary leap, advisors require a proven, time-tested strategy. A methodology established by one of the most successful advisors in the country and backed by decades of real-world application among thousands of advisors across the country.

Low wages, high house prices, zero reward for saving and the catastrophic fallout from Covid-19 . . . young people have had a rough ride. But we have a choice. We can sleepwalk into a poorer future – or we can transform our prospects by embracing the power of investing. In this fun, wise and incredibly helpful book, Iona explains why investing matters. She also shows you how to get your basic finances right, save for your first home and make your pension socially responsible.

Welcome to the future of internet coordination. By now you’ve heard the buzz about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), and how they are going to redefine how we work and earn. But when you peel away the hype and tech jargon, what are they really? How do they operate, why do they...

Supertrends: 50 Things You Need to Know About the Future is about how efficient futurists work and how we can expect the world to evolve in terms of demographics, general economics, technologies, business models, resources, environment, and lifestyles. This audiobook addresses how to predict the future, what we can expect from it, and how companies and government should adapt to the accelerating change.

An essential look at technology and the future of finance from Baxter Hines, cofounder of Honeycomb Digital Investments.

We weigh every significant decision based on how it will affect our future. But when it comes to figuring that out, we mostly make the process up as we go along. While financial professional Peter Neuwirth can't help you actually predict the future, he can offer a simple, systematic way to make much better guesses about it - and so make better decisions.

Are you overwhelmed by the constant barrage of retirement advice bombarding you from every direction? From pushy salespeople and dinner presentations about the sky falling, it seems everyone has an opinion about what you should do with your money. But how do you know who to trust when your financial future is at stake? This straightforward guide cuts through the noise and confusion of retirement planning to help you avoid common pitfalls and make informed decisions.

You’ve heard about it but you don’t really understand it. Is it something you should ignore or pay attention to? You have heard of people using Crypto Currency as an investment like stocks or real estate, but you have also heard people say they lost money. Alex Fisher has been a private investor for years and has been very successful. To the point where he quit his job and, as he puts it, “Just trades and plays.” That last comment is typical of the casual yet precisely informative style of this engaging book.