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The definitive guide to why different financial markets exist and how they operate. This edition brings the listener right up to speed with the latest developments in financial instruments and provides a clear and incisive guide to this complex world that even those who work in it often find hard to understand. With chapters on the markets that deal with money, foreign exchange, equities, bonds, commodities, financial futures, options and other derivatives.

Another entry in the best-selling, irreverent, hard-hitting Politically Incorrect Guide series! Economics from a rational, conservative viewpoint—that is, a refreshing look at how money actually works from an author who knows the score, and how the law of economics are frequently broken and derailed by pernicious leftists and virtue signaling progressives.

>An invaluable guide to arrive at better business decisions. We make decisions, and these decisions make us and our organisations. And in theory, decision-making should be easy: a problem is identified, the decision-makers generate solutions, and choose the optimal one - and powerful mathematical tools are available to facilitate the task. Yet if it is all so simple why do organisations, both private and public sector, keep making mistakes - the results of which are borne by shareholders, employees, taxpayers, and ultimately society at large?

“Youth runs fast, but age knows the terrain.” Ageism and age bias are pervasive in society and in companies. It's time to take a stand and take back control of our own careers from those that wish to exclude us. This channel is dedicated to bringing ageism to light, withstanding its effects, recovering from job loss, rebuilding self-respect, and building a better life on our own terms. It will be raw, painful, informative, and inspiring. Layoffs, early retirement packages, exclusion from projects are all means that corporations use to push out employees over fifty years of age. ...

There are three ways in which people can make money through the stock market: by investing, by trading or both. However, whether one invests, trades or does both, a fundamental understanding of how the stock market works is critical. Clichéd as it may sound, this book provides a fresh...

Get yourself up to guru speed. This insightful guide, which has proven hugely popular around the world in hardback, not only includes the most significant ideas that have influenced the management of business over the past century, but it also includes entries on the most influential business thinkers of the past and present.

"A Beginner's Guide to AI" makes the complex world of Artificial Intelligence accessible to all. Each episode asks someone working with AI about what they do and how AI can help you. Ideal for novices, tech enthusiasts, and the simply curious, this podcast transforms AI learning into an engaging, digestible journey. Join us as we take the first steps into AI 🚀 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a...

Economic forces are everywhere around you. But that doesn't mean you need to passively accept whatever outcome those forces might press upon you. Instead, with these 12 fast-moving and crystal clear lectures, you can learn how to use a small handful of basic nuts-and-bolts principles to turn those same forces to your own advantage.

This is an updated version of the book that accurately predicted the global stock market crash of 2008, the bursting of the real estate bubble, and Ben Bernanke's unprecedented overreaction via quantitative easing programs. First published in 2008, the book quickly became a best seller not just...

Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. Yet the conventional wisdom about inflation is stuck in the past. Since the 1970s, there has only really been one playbook for fighting inflation: raise interest rates, thereby creating unemployment and a recession, which will lower prices. But this simple story hides a multitude of beliefs about why prices go up and how policymakers can wrestle them back down, beliefs that are often wrong, damaging, and have little empirical basis.

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Painted Right is a practical and insightful podcast created for Singapore homeowners, landlords, and business owners who want to make informed decisions about painting and property improvement. Each episode breaks down industry knowledge from budgeting and material selection to long-term maintenance so listeners can avoid costly mistakes and achieve lasting results. Midway through the series, we explore how professional painting services influence overall project costs, timelines, and quality outcomes in Singapore’s unique climate and housing landscape. By blending expert interviews, ...

An audio version of 2023's 80000 Hours Career Guide (https://80000hours.org/career-guide/). Also available on Amazon, Audible, and free on our website . It contains 11 chapters, from 'What makes for a dream job?' to 'Which jobs help people the most?' to 'What’s the best way to gain connections?' It also has 9 appendices on a range of topics like 'All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job' and 'is it ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good?' If you know someone who might find our career guide helpful, you can get a free copy sent to them by ...

An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. ‘A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us all' Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism ‘Easily one of the most compelling economics communicators of our...

What is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? How can central banks be instrumental in guiding a nation's economy? What are the underlying causes of trade deficits? Do trade wars actually help the domestic economy? How has the behavior of millennials and Generation Z affected the global economy? Find out...

In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee provides executives with a simple tool to cut through technological complexity and market uncertainties. The Value Stick, based on proven economic mechanics, is an extraordinarily powerful tool that helps executives decide where to focus their attention and how to deepen their firm's competitive advantage.

This guidebook covers the essentials of macroeconomics and examines, in a simple and intuitive way, the core ideas of output, money, and expectations. Early chapters leave you with an understanding of everything from fiscal policy and central banking to business cycles and international trade. Later chapters provide a brief monetary history of the United States as well as the basics of macroeconomic accounting. You'll learn why countries trade, why exchange rates move, and what makes an economy grow.

Welcome, interstellar travelers, to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, your improbable companion through the expanding universe of governance, risk, and compliance. In a cosmos where regulations multiply faster than Tribbles, cyber incidents drop like falling whales, and third parties sprout surprises with Vogon-level timing, this podcast is your towel, your Babel Fish, and your improbability drive rolled into one. Each episode, Michael Rasmussen and guests explore the constellation of GRC technology, from digital twins and AI copilots to compliance nebulae and audit ...

A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry. In this provocative book, Jonathan Bush, cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, calls for a revolution in health care to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices.