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antoine gara financial times: The End of Reality Jonathan Taplin, 2023-09-05 An instant bestseller! A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk), leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society. At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme—the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and transhumanism—is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms. In The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin provides perceptive insight into the personal backgrounds and cultural power of these billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreesen (“The Four”) —and shows how their tech monopolies have brought middle-class wage stagnation, the hollowing out of many American towns, a radical increase in income inequality, and unbounded public acrimony. Meanwhile, the enormous amount of taxpayer money to be funneled into the dystopian ventures of The Four, the benefits of which will accrue to billionaires, exacerbate these disturbing trends. The End of Reality is both scathing critique and reform agenda that replaces the warped worldview of The Four with a vision of regenerative economics that seeks to build a sustainable society with healthy growth and full employment. |
antoine gara financial times: 2023 Culture & Conduct Risk in the Banking Sector Stephen Scott, 2023-06-07 The Compendium is a publication of Starling Insights, a membership-based platform that is a resource for and by the community of leaders, experts, and practitioners working to bring new ideas and tools to the governance and supervision of cultural, behavioral, and other nonfinancial risks and performance outcomes. Readers will find discussion throughout this report, in articles by and interviews with dozens of contributors, among them: regulators, supervisors, central bankers and policymakers; standard setting bodies and industry associations; industry executives and peers from other sectors; prominent legal thinkers and practicing attorneys; as well as renowned scholars from various disciplines. We are humbled by their continued collective generosity and hope that our 2023 Compendium is found to be as valuable to readers as its predecessors. |
antoine gara financial times: The Rise of Finance V. Anantha Nageswaran, Gulzar Natarajan, 2019-04-25 Financialisation, or the disproportionate importance of financial considerations in economic decisions, has been a defining feature of the economic history of the last twenty-five years. The wave of deregulation that accompanied the neoliberal agenda in the US, aided by the dominance of US dollar and American economy, has resulted in the globalisation of finance. This book examines the rise of financialisation globally, while charting its drawbacks and prescribing suggestions for a definitive overhaul of the structure. Bringing together various strands of the latest research and evidence generated in recent years, empirical analysis, and views of reputed experts in the field, it presents a counter-point to the canonical ideas of analysing financial market dynamics and financial globalisation. It proposes a revision of the current monetary policy paradigm to correct its excessive focus on equity markets and their 'wealth effect', embrace a more symmetric response to the economic cycle, and a mandate to focus on financial stability as much as price stability. |
antoine gara financial times: Contemporary Finance Allan M. Malz, 2024-10-22 A clear new finance textbook that explains essential models and practices, and how the financial world works now Contemporary Financial Markets and Institutions: Tools and Techniques to Manage Risk and Uncertainty is an ideal introduction to finance for professionals and students. It covers the basic finance theory required to understand the contemporary financial world and builds on it to present finance in a detailed yet comprehensible way. It explains markets and institutions, and the central bank and government policies that influence how they operate. The book begins with an overview of basic finance theory, including investments, asset return behavior, derivatives pricing, and credit risk. It discusses topics that have dominated markets in recent decades, such as extreme events, liquidity, currency and debt crises, and radical changes in monetary policy and regulation. The concepts are presented alongside examples, strange market episodes, and data from recent experience. Contemporary Financial Markets and Institutions covers advanced credit topics like securitization in a straightforward, succinct way, without advanced mathematics, but with detailed examples using real market data. It integrates financial and macroeconomic content seamlessly. The book is suitable for use by undergraduate and graduate students, and by practitioners of all backgrounds. Abundant pedagogical resources in the book and online facilitate teaching. This book will help students and practioners: Learn the basic concepts and models in finance, including investment, asset pricing, uncertainty and risk, monetary policy and the regulatory system Explore recent developments, from the expansion of central banks to the chaos in commercial banking to changes in financial technology, that are dominating markets worldwide Gain knowledge of risk types, models, and measurement methods, and the impact of regulation Prepare yourself for a successful career in finance, or update your existing knowledge base with this comprehensive reference guide Ideal as a sole or supplementary textbook for beginning and advanced finance courses, as well as for practitioners in finance-related fields, this book takes a unique, market-focused approach that will serve readers well in our turbulent and puzzling times. |
antoine gara financial times: Foreverism Grafton Tanner, 2023-10-30 What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize something is to reanimate it, to enclose and protect it from time and the elements, and to eradicate the feeling of nostalgia that accompanies loss. Foreverizing is a bulwark against instability, but it isn’t an infallible enterprise. That which is promised to last forever often does not, and that which is disposed of can sometimes last, disturbingly, forever. In this groundbreaking book, American philosopher Grafton Tanner develops his theory of foreverism: an anti-nostalgic discourse that promises growth without change and life without loss. Engaging with pressing issues from the ecological impact of data storage to the rise of reboot culture, Tanner tracks the implications of a society averse to nostalgia and reveals the new weapons we have for eliminating it. |
antoine gara financial times: Taming the Sun Varun Sivaram, 2019-02-26 How solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation—creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems. Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless—every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a year. But in Taming the Sun, energy expert Varun Sivaram warns that the world is not yet equipped to harness erratic sunshine to meet most of its energy needs. And if solar's current surge peters out, prospects for replacing fossil fuels and averting catastrophic climate change will dim. Innovation can brighten those prospects, Sivaram explains, drawing on firsthand experience and original research spanning science, business, and government. Financial innovation is already enticing deep-pocketed investors to fund solar projects around the world, from the sunniest deserts to the poorest villages. Technological innovation could replace today's solar panels with coatings as cheap as paint and employ artificial photosynthesis to store intermittent sunshine as convenient fuels. And systemic innovation could add flexibility to the world's power grids and other energy systems so they can dependably channel the sun's unreliable energy. Unleashing all this innovation will require visionary public policy: funding researchers developing next-generation solar technologies, refashioning energy systems and economic markets, and putting together a diverse clean energy portfolio. Although solar can't power the planet by itself, it can be the centerpiece of a global clean energy revolution. A Council on Foreign Relations Book |
antoine gara financial times: You've Been Played Adrian Hon, 2022-09-20 How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. In You’ve Been Played, game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion. These are games that we often have no choice but to play, where losing has heavy penalties. You’ve Been Played is a scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy. |
antoine gara financial times: Vassal State Angus Hanton, 2024-04-11 British politicians love to vaunt the benefits of the UK's supposed 'special relationship' with the US. But are we really America's economic partner – or its colony? Vassal State lays bare the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain's economy: how American business chiefs decide what we're paid, what we buy, and how we buy it. US companies have carved up Britain between them, siphoning off enormous profits, buying up our most lucrative firms and assets, and extracting huge rents from UK PLC – all while paying little or no tax. Meanwhile, policymakers, from Whitehall mandarins to NHS chiefs, shape their decisions to suit the whims of our American corporate overlords. Based on his 40 years of business experience, devastating new research, and interviews with the major players, Angus Hanton exposes why Britain has become the poor transatlantic relation – and what we can do to change it. |
antoine gara financial times: The Space of the World Nick Couldry, 2024-09-17 Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our space of the world – the highly artificial space of social media platforms where much of our social life now unfolds. This has proved reckless and has huge social consequences. The toxic effects on social life, young people’s mental health, and political solidarity are well known, but the key factor underlying all this has been missed: the fact that humanity allowed business to construct our space of the world at all and then exploit it for profit. In the process, we ignored two millennia of political thought about the conditions under which a healthy or even a non-violent politics is possible. We endangered the one resource that is in desperately short supply in the face of catastrophic climate change: solidarity. Is human solidarity possible in a world of continuous digital connection and commercially managed platforms, and what if it isn’t? In the first book of his trilogy, Humanising the Future, Nick Couldry offers a radical new vision of how to design our digital spaces so that they build, rather than erode, both solidarity and community. This trenchant and vividly written book stresses that we cannot afford not to care for our space of the world. We need to rebuild it together. |
antoine gara financial times: The Bankers’ New Clothes Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig, 2024-01-09 A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the Year Why our banking system is broken—and what we must do to fix it New bank failures have been a rude awakening for everyone who believed that the banking industry was reformed after the Global Financial Crisis—and that we’d never again have to choose between massive bailouts and financial havoc. The Bankers’ New Clothes uncovers just how little things have changed—and why banks are still so dangerous. Writing in clear language that anyone can understand, Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig debunk the false and misleading claims of bankers, regulators, politicians, academics, and others who oppose effective reform, and they explain how the banking system can be made safer and healthier. Thoroughly updated for a world where bank failures have made a dramatic return, this acclaimed and important book now features a new preface and four new chapters that expose the shortcomings of current policies and reveal how the dominance of banking even presents dangers to the rule of law and democracy itself. |
antoine gara financial times: Building Leadership Character Amy Newman, 2018-03-28 Extending beyond traditional leadership books to offer readers a path for developing their own character, this compelling new text uses a storytelling approach and real-world cases to explore different dimensions of leadership character. With a clear, student-friendly writing style, bestselling author Amy Newman deftly captures various approaches in which corporations and people respond to situations in difficult times and learn from mistakes. Using real companies and situations, each chapter examines a leadership character dimension such as accountability, integrity, authenticity, and courage. Readers will learn to develop their own character, emotional intelligence, and leadership skills as they engage with assessments, reflection opportunities, and exercises. |
antoine gara financial times: American Oligarchy Ron Formisano, 2017-09-27 A permanent political class has emerged on a scale unprecedented in our nation 's history. Its self-dealing, nepotism, and corruption contribute to rising inequality. Its reach extends from the governing elite throughout nongovernmental institutions. Aside from constituting an oligarchy of prestige and power, it enables the creation of an aristocracy of massive inherited wealth that is accumulating immense political power. In a muckraking tour de force reminiscent of Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and C. Wright Mills, American Oligarchy demonstrates the way the corrupt culture of the permanent political class extends down to the state and local level. Ron Formisano breaks down the ways this class creates economic inequality and how its own endemic corruption infects our entire society. Formisano delves into the work of not just politicians but lobbyists, consultants, appointed bureaucrats, pollsters, celebrity journalists, behind-the-scenes billionaires, and others. Their shameless pursuit of wealth and self-aggrandizement, often at taxpayer expense, rewards channeling the flow of income and wealth to elites. That inequality in turn has choked off social mobility and made a joke of meritocracy. As Formisano shows, these forces respond to the oligarchy 's power and compete to bask in the presence of the .01 percent. They also exacerbate the dangerous instability of an American democracy divided between extreme wealth and extreme poverty. |
antoine gara financial times: Corruption and Government Susan Rose-Ackerman, Bonnie J. Palifka, 2016-03-07 The second edition of Corruption and Government updates Susan Rose-Ackerman's 1999 book to address emerging issues and to rethink old questions in light of new data. The book analyzes the research explosion that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of Transparency International, and the World Bank's decision to give anti-corruption policy a key place on its agenda. Time has vindicated Rose-Ackerman's emphasis on institutional reform as the necessary condition for serious progress. The book deals with routine payoffs and with corruption in contracting and privatization. It gives special attention to political corruption and to instruments of accountability. The authors have expanded the treatment of culture as a source of entrenched corruption and added chapters on criminal law, organized crime, and post-conflict societies. The book outlines domestic conditions for reform and discusses international initiatives - including both explicit anti-corruption policies and efforts to constrain money laundering. |
antoine gara financial times: Climate Capitalism Akshat Rathi, 2024-03-12 “An important read for anyone in need of optimism about our ability to build a clean energy future.”—BILL GATES “Illuminating, incisive, and deeply reported.”—DAVID WALLACE-WELLS, New York Times-bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. Contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold about the climate emergency, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. From the Chinese bureaucrat who did more to make electric cars a reality than Elon Musk, to the Danish students who helped to build the world's longest-operating wind turbine, or the American oil executive building the technology that can reverse climate damages, we meet the people working to scale technologies that are finally able to bend the emissions curve. Through stories that bring people, policy and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable. This inspiring blend of business, science, and history provides the framework for ensuring that future generations can live in prosperity and that the wheels of progress don't falter. |
antoine gara financial times: Plunder Brendan Ballou, 2023-05-02 The authoritative exposé of private equity: what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop it Private equity surrounds us. Firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR are among the largest employers in America and hold assets that rival those of small countries. Yet few understand what these firms are or how they work. In Plunder, Brendan Ballou explains how private equity has reshaped American business by raising prices, reducing quality, cutting jobs, and shifting resources from productive to unproductive parts of the economy. Ballou vividly illustrates how many private equity firms buy up retailers, medical practices, prison services, nursing-home chains, and mobile-home parks, among other businesses, using little of their own money to do it and avoiding debt and liability for their actions. Forced to take on huge debts and pay extractive fees, companies purchased by private equity firms are often left bankrupt, or shells of their former selves, with consequences to communities that long depended on them. Perhaps most startling is Ballou’s insight into how this is happening with the active support of various arms of the government. But, as Ballou reveals in an agenda for reining in the industry, private equity can be stopped from wreaking further havoc. |
antoine gara financial times: Mergers, Acquisitions and International Financial Regulation Daniele D'Alvia, 2021-11-29 This is a much-needed work in the financial literature, and it is the first book ever to analyse the use of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from a theoretical and practical perspective. By the end of 2020, more than 240 SPACs were listed in the US (on NASDAQ or the NYSE), raising a record $83 billion. The SPAC craze has been shaking the US for months, mainly because of its simplicity: a bunch of investors decides to buy shares at a fixed price in a company that initially has no assets. In this way, a SPAC, also known as a blank check company, is created as an empty shell with lots of money to spend on a corporate shopping spree. Could the trend be here to stay? Are SPACs the new legitimate path to traditional IPO? This book tackles those questions and more. The author provides a thorough analysis of SPACs including their legal framework and how they are used as a risk mitigation tool to structure transactions. The main objectives of the book are focused on finding a working definition for SPACs and theorising on their origins, definition, and evolution; identifying the objectives of financial regulation within the context of the recent financial crisis (2007–2010) and the one that is currently unfolding (Covid-19); and also describing practical examples of SPACs through a comparative study that, for the first time, outlines every major capital market on which SPACs are listed, in order to identify a possible international standard of regulation. The book is relevant to academics as well as policymakers, international financial regulators, corporate finance lawyers as well as to the financial industry tout court. |
antoine gara financial times: Number Go Up Zeke Faux, 2024-10-01 The “rollicking” (The Economist), “masterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars—hailed by Ezra Klein in The New York Times as one of the “Books That Explain Where We Are” FINALIST: the Edgar Award (Fact Crime), the Macavity Award (Nonfiction), the Porchlight Business Book Award • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times DealBook, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, Irish Examiner, Morningstar, The Verge, Wired In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked—but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named “digital asset”? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence game of epic proportions? What started as curiosity—with a dash of FOMO—would morph into a two-year, globe-spanning quest to understand the wizards behind the world’s new financial machinery. Faux’s investigation would lead him to a schlubby, frizzy-haired twenty-nine-year-old named Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF for short) and a host of other crypto scammers, utopians, and overnight billionaires. Faux follows the trail to a luxury resort in the Bahamas, where SBF boldly declares that he will use his crypto fortune to save the world. Faux talks his way onto the yacht of a former child actor turned crypto impresario and gains access to “ApeFest,” an elite party headlined by Snoop Dogg, by purchasing a $20,000 image of a cartoon monkey. In El Salvador, Faux learns what happens when a country wagers its treasury on Bitcoin, and in the Philippines, he stumbles upon a Pokémon knockoff mobile game touted by boosters as a cure for poverty. And in an astonishing development, a spam text leads Faux to Cambodia, where he uncovers a crypto-powered human-trafficking ring. When the bubble suddenly bursts in 2022, Faux brings readers inside SBF’s penthouse as the fallen crypto king faces his imminent arrest. Fueled by the absurd details and authoritative reporting that earned Zeke Faux the accolade “our great poet of crime” (Money Stuff columnist Matt Levine), Number Go Up is the essential chronicle, by turns harrowing and uproarious, of a $3 trillion financial delusion. |
antoine gara financial times: Hype Machine: How Greed, Fraud and Free Money Crashed Crypto Joshua Oliver, 2024-03-14 'A gripping real-life financial thriller.' CLAER BARRETT, AUTHOR OF WHAT THEY DON'T TEACH YOU ABOUT MONEY 'Anybody who wants to understand the cryptocurrency mania should read Hype Machine.' LIONEL BARBER, FORMER EDITOR OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES On 2 November 2023, in one of the largest fraud trials in history, Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of stealing billions of dollars from the customers of his crypto-exchange, FTX. How did this 31-year-old Californian in shorts and a T-shirt manage to become one of the most famous CEOs in the world? How did greed, fear and free money inflate the crypto bubble until it finally popped with devastating consequences for millions of people who lost money in the crash? Who were the enablers, investors and innovators who transformed the original promise of crypto into a digital Wild West? Hype Machine is the definitive story of the boom and bust of crypto, written by award-winning Financial Times journalist Joshua Oliver. Expansive, nuanced and eminently entertaining, it demystifies the crypto circus by following the journeys of its most influential participants and the trajectory of SBF, its enigmatic ringmaster. Oliver, who reported on the crypto crash with extensive access to SBF himself, introduces readers to the people and ideas that shaped crypto's wild rise and fall, including Arthur Hayes, Changpeng Zhao and the coterie of acolytes who surrounded FTX. Through exclusive interviews, compelling research and with ringside seats at the trial of the decade, he paints a vivid, detailed and tragi-comic picture of this defining financial moment of our times. |
antoine gara financial times: Reclaiming Critical Remix Video Owen Gallagher, 2017-11-08 Remix is now considered by many to be a form of derivative work, but such generalizations have resulted in numerous non-commercial remixes being wrongfully accused of copyright infringement. Gallagher argues, however, that remix is a fundamentally transformative practice. The assumption that cultural works should be considered a form of private property is called into question in the digital age; thus, he proposes an alternative system to balance the economic interests of cultural producers with the ability of the public to engage with a growing intellectual commons of cultural works. Multimodal analyses of both remixed and non-remixed intertextual work, with a particular focus on examples of critical remix video, fuel the discussion, synthesizing a number of investigative methods including semiotic, rhetorical and ideological analysis. |
antoine gara financial times: Cryptomania Andrew R Chow, 2024-08-06 For fans of Bad Blood and Too Big to Fail, an explosive, page-turning account of one of the largest financial frauds in US history, chronicling the utopian promises, human collateral, and incineration of billions of dollars in the 2022 crypto crash, by Time magazine’s technology correspondent. As cryptocurrency rose in popularity during the pandemic, new converts bought into the idea that crypto would not only make them rich, but would usher in imminent revolutions across art, finance, politics, and gaming. Cryptocurrency caught the zeitgeist through figures like FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who only two years later would be convicted of one of the most calamitous acts of financial fraud in US history. During his meteoric rise, Sam Bankman-Fried outflanked idealists in the movement like Vitalik Buterin, who sought to build fairer, more democratic systems through Ethereum. Bankman-Fried pursued a growth-obsessed, by-any-means approach to crypto, which proved seductive to those who just wanted to get rich. But this Silicon Valley-like approach also drove the creation of a spate of high-risk financial instruments that mirrored those of the 2008 financial crisis. Accused of misleading investors and mishandling funds, Bankman-Fried became a target of prosecutors. Now, Cryptomania unfolds the tumultuous twenty months inside this male-dominated, overhyped industry that led to its downfall. Drawing on exclusive reporting and an extensive network in the global NFT community, Andrew Chow chronicles the battle for crypto’s soul, and the human toll of its economic meltdown—from the conmen and eccentrics driving the bubble to the victims caught in its burst. |
antoine gara financial times: Seeking Virtue in Finance JC de Swaan, 2020-09-17 Since the Global Financial Crisis, a surge of interest in the use of finance as a tool to address social and economic problems suggests the potential for a generational shift in how the finance industry operates and is perceived. J. C. de Swaan seeks to channel the forces of well-intentioned finance professionals to improve finance from within and help restore its focus on serving society. Drawing from inspiring individuals in the field, de Swaan proposes a framework for pursuing a viable career in finance while benefiting society and upholding humanistic values. In doing so, he challenges traditional concepts of success in the industry. This will also engage readers outside of finance who are concerned about the industry's impact on society. |
antoine gara financial times: The Great Brexit Swindle T. J. Coles, 2016-11-21 ‘If you voted to Leave the European Union, the chances are you’ve been swindled...’ In his urgent new book, T. J. Coles uncovers the forces seeking to uncouple Britain from the European Union. Allied to an expanding core of free market fanatics in the Conservative party is a powerful group of globalists and financial traders. Their political ideology is neoliberalism – a worldwide agenda that seeks to deregulate markets and maximize profits for global elites at the expense of working people. The effect is a growing gap internationally between rich and poor. Digging deep into the funding campaign, The Great Brexit Swindle documents the potent, self-serving interests behind Brexit. In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, mega-rich hedge fund managers and billionaire CEOs are keen to be rid of Brussels and its ‘red tape’ regulation. Their anti-European political allies, meanwhile, are preparing to corner markets in Asia and South America, whilst expanding Britain’s military capacity as a back-up to economic penetration. Brexit was sold to the public as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to regain sovereignty, control immigration and increase the nation’s wealth. But, despite the manifold promises of Brexiteers, Coles demonstrates that economic globalization will lead to growing job insecurity and greater immigration, once British workers are put in direct competition with the huge, poor populations of countries like Brazil, China, Mexico and India. Increasing ‘free market’ trade worldwide leaves Britain open to low-quality products, such as hormone-treated American beef and genetically-modified foods, whilst the new planned trade agreements would only accelerate the privatization of public services. Although Coles is not an advocate for the EU, he argues that the Brexit agenda is designed only to serve the interests of the wealthy and increasingly powerful 0.1% of the population. |
antoine gara financial times: Fintech Explained Michael R. King, 2023-10-02 Fintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech. Michael R. King explains the customer focus, innovation strategy, business model, and valuation of leading fintechs in cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi), crowdfunding and online lending, robo-advice and digital wealth management, payments and insurtech, digital banking, and bigtech. The book profiles the successes and failures of over thirty high-profile fintechs, combining insights from founders, early-stage investors, financial incumbents, and other stakeholders in this dynamic ecosystem. Combining clear descriptions and case studies with the latest findings from academic research, Fintech Explained provides a complete course for educating undergraduate and graduate students, executives, and interested professionals. |
antoine gara financial times: Contemporary Business Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz, Susan Berston, 2019-03-26 Contemporary Business, 18th Edition, is a student friendly, engaging product designed to attract students to the field of business. Boone 18e offers a comprehensive approach to the material that will cater to a wide variety of students with different learning needs. Up-to-date content is vital to any Intro to Business course and Boone 18e with its contemporary style, wealth of new examples, and hot business topics can deliver that currency. |
antoine gara financial times: Battle for the Bird Kurt Wagner, 2024-02-20 Now known as X, Twitter’s messy history—including Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022, its outsized cultural impact, and its significant role in shaping how the world gets its news—is thoroughly and entertainingly revealed in this “absolute triumph of reporting and storytelling” (Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author). Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes you inside Twitter’s everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of the world’s most consequential tech companies. From Jack Dorsey’s triumphant return as CEO in 2015 to the rise and fall of @RealDonaldTrump to the contentious $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, Battle for the Bird exposes the messy reality and relentless challenges that come with building a global social network. This is the “meticulous and riveting account” (Emily Chang, host of Bloomberg’s The Circuit) of the fight over the world’s most influential social media platform. Now, for the first time—through deeply sourced, exclusive interviews—you will discover how the visionary promises of one iconoclast gave way to the darker, yet-to-be-defined motives of another, upending the virtual status quo and impacting the flow of news and information to the masses. |
antoine gara financial times: Crypto Titans: How trillions were made and billions lost in the cryptocurrency markets Markus Thielen, 2023-05-10 This book explains how the crypto industry started and evolved, and how everything in crypto is ultimately connected. It shows the players behind the $3trn industry (at its peak) and how billions of dollars were lost. If you want to understand how everything in crypto is related, and why and when crypto prices move up or down, this book is for you. Praise for CRYPTO TITANS “Fortunes are won and lost when transformations happen. Bitcoin is transforming the entire economy, and there will be many fortunes won and lost. But the drumbeat continues. Technology always shines in the end. Read this book. Great lessons learned.” ― Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Associates “This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the history of crypto. Markus has done an excellent job covering all the important names and stories that have shaped the crypto industry, consistently hitting the nail on the head with accurate analysis to help readers understand the motivations and personal characteristics. I highly recommend this book to anyone.” ― Jihan Wu, Founder, Bitdeer and Matrixport In this book you'll learn: How each of the four crypto bull markets of 2011, 2013, 2017, and 2021 unfolded, the drivers behind them, and what caused prices to correct violently during bear markets How crypto markets naturally progressed, and how everything is therefore related The players involved, and how they have made money—while others have lost large sums. Understanding these points may help the reader to identify the next crypto bull market. The last 3yrs have been the most instrumental in the development of the market, with the adoption level reaching not only individuals but also asset managers and corporate executives—only for the development to be cataclysmically overshadowed by bankruptcies of multi-billion-dollar crypto lending firms and crypto trading desks. Overview: The 1st of the book describes how Bitcoin started as a peer-to-peer payment system, and how the first crypto bubble was facilitated by onramp payment companies in 2011, which mainly funneled money into the notorious Mt. Gox exchange, eventually leading to investors’ funds being stolen. The 2nd analyzes how China embraced Bitcoin and hailed it as a new form of money, which set off a massive speculative bubble in 2013. The 3rd describes how Ethereum got really started and set off the period of initial coin offerings (ICOs) that would lead to the third bull market in 2017. It also identifies the decisions that caused Tether to become the most important stablecoin. The 4th of the book shows how decentralized finance (DeFi) started, and how the speculative mania that was set off by the COVID stimulus checks would reach its peak. Binance became the largest crypto exchange despite its controversies, and effectively dethroned BitMEX as the most important crypto exchange. The crypto trading firms Alameda Research and Three Arrows Capital also became multi-billion-dollar players in the crypto bull market. The 5th of the book takes a deep dive into the 2022 bear market, exploring how crypto spectacularly crashed from a multi-trillion-dollar valuation and why the implosion of the Terra stablecoin caused $60bn to vanish within a few days. The 6th contemplates the events that led to the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX, once valued at $32bn, after a meteoric 4yr rise. |
antoine gara financial times: Investing for Better: Harnessing the Four Driving Forces of Asset Management to Build a Wealthier and More Equitable World Daniel Seiler, 2024-03-12 Proven methods for successfully serving clients who prioritize investments that help improve the world while generating healthy profits Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is big, and it’s getting bigger. An entire generation of investors want their investments to reflect their values. If you have clients in this category, you need to read Investing for Better, which reveals the inherent challenge this style of investing poses. ESG pioneer and seasoned asset manager, Daniel Seiler maps out the current state of the global asset management industry and outlines the primal forces that influence the business of money management. He proposes a new model of asset management that combines vision and purpose by prioritizing: • Reduction of the costs of investing • Refinement of mechanisms to share risk • Minimization of information asymmetries • Responsiveness to changing investor and societal preferences Along the way, Seiler explores hot topics like the influence of technological improvements (AI, blockchain and NFTs) on the future of investing. Investing for Better is based on the core understanding that if you have a purpose and conviction, you can help individuals and families create wealth and savings, and can help build a better, more prosperous, and more peaceful civilization. |
antoine gara financial times: 你玩遊戲,還是遊戲玩你?:一場無法登出的遊戲,公司、政府和學校如何利用遊戲來控制我們所有人 安瑞恩.韓(Adrian Hon), 2024-03-28 在當今的遊戲化時代,你不再是玩家, 而是被玩弄。 這個由科技主導的世界試圖讓我們相信,痛苦就是樂趣。 遊戲如何變成了操控的工具,我們又該如何面對? ※《紐約時報》、《經濟學人》、《出版人週刊》、《愛爾蘭獨立報》、《圖書館雜誌》、Gizmodo等各大媒體一致好評!! ※蔡依橙 【陪你看國際新聞】創辦人│Lucien Chen 微軟動視暴雪King-資深遊戲設計師/前PlayStation、Electronic Arts遊戲設計師/遊戲設計中藥舖專欄作家│李志德 資深新聞工作者│朱宥勳 作家│朱家安 作家/魂系玩家…………………讚譽推薦! 隨著遊戲化滲透各個角落,我們的世界愈來愈像一場無法登出的遊戲, 不論是社群網路、交易軟體、金融信用分數、陰謀論、社會信用制度, 失敗的後果不再只是「再試一下」的友善鼓勵, 我們賭上的是生計,而且更糟的還在後頭。 ➔➔➔「遊戲化」通常被認為是一件好事。將遊戲融入到生活的其他部分,像是定期鍛鍊,使其變得更有趣、更有挑戰性,讓我們在做平凡的事情時感覺更好。這不是很棒嗎?優秀的遊戲有一個驚人的學習曲線,可以讓你從笨手笨腳的菜鳥變成大師(甚至在你意識到自己這麼快就學會了之前)。 然而,當遊戲化以強制性和操縱性的方式應用時,當遊戲技術被用來推動不斷增長的工作配額或做為社會監視機制時,或者,當它們被用來引發陰謀論或誘發成癮行為時,就會出現更大的問題。不幸的是,遊戲化被用來物化人、否認人性的例子太多了。 ●一名電話客服人員耐心地為一位客戶進行列表機的故障排除,與此同時,他的螢幕角落有一個卡通人物會在他聽起來不夠投入的時候責備他。●倉儲工人忙碌地打包包裹,以勞力催促著螢幕上虛擬的飛龍賽跑;如果他們打敗別的同事,就能獲得獎賞,如果輸了,可能會受到懲罰。●一名精疲力盡的Uber司機需要額外的現金,所以他接受了App彈跳出來的訊息要求:多載運三趟以獲得六塊美金的獎勵。●政府試圖記錄公民所做的一切行為,使用積分來分發(或剝奪)特權。●而你的手機上,各式各樣的App利用遊戲機制在掏空你的錢包。 這並不是一個反烏托邦的幻想:積分、徽章、成就、排行榜正慢慢地潛入現代生活中的每一個面向。《你玩遊戲,還是遊戲玩你?》作者安瑞恩在牛津大學攻讀神經科學博士學位,從事遊戲開發十多年,他深諳工作場所如何利用遊戲化來讓員工發揮更多作用(同時不給他們任何回報),並對企業、學校以及政府使用遊戲來操控員工、學生和所有人的行為做出抨擊。 雖然這個被稱為「遊戲化」(gamification)的趨勢有時對我們有益,安瑞恩則讓我們看見,事實上它更常是對行為、生理與情緒的高科技剝削。這些遊戲常常讓我們沒有選擇餘地玩下去,失敗以後不會有一個令人開心的「再試一次」的結果,而是真實的財務或社會性的處罰。 本書揭示遊戲化如何剝奪我們的覺知意識,為什麼大公司如亞馬遜及Uber如此熱中於運用遊戲化來管理員工,以及何以將我們的整個生活轉變為地獄般的遊戲,永遠也掙脫不出。為此,我們需要直面遊戲化的挑戰和濫用,並確保它可以用來改善我們的生活,而不是讓情況變得更糟。 【各界讚譽】 ★富啟發性且具有說服力。──《紐約時報》書評 ★這份充滿激情的調查是對工作者和政治領導人的警鐘。──《出版人週刊》 ★本書審視了遊戲化的興起,以及人們如何利用科技以微妙的方式直接觸及我們的心智,用來剝削我們並且剝奪我們的人性,堪稱必讀之作。 ──馬丁.福特(Martin Ford),矽谷軟體開發公司創辦人、趨勢先驅 ★安瑞恩寫出了一部精彩的作品,本書談論了我們如何漸漸走向卡關的反烏托邦社會,因為本應做為啦啦隊和教練引導我們向上的技術,卻被人拿來當成賺錢的工具,扮演著工頭和騙子的角色。 ──布拉德福德.德隆(J. Bradford DeLong),加州大學柏克萊分校經濟學教授 ★此書就像是安瑞恩筆下的那些遊戲(和遊戲化)一樣令人上癮、惱怒、卻又同時感到心滿意足。說實話,讀這本書猶如開了盞燈:我再也無法以相同的方式看待我的智慧型手機了。 ──安妮.海倫.彼得森(Anne Helen Petersen),BuzzFeed資深文化撰稿人、《集體倦怠》(Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation)作者 ★這是對於遊戲化失控危險亟需的警鐘,遊戲化將操縱粉飾為樂趣,政治與利益則成了唯一真正的贏家。對於熱愛遊戲、人類自由以及任何仍相信遊戲應該是有趣的人來說,這是必讀之作。 ──大衛.賽克斯(David Sax),《老派科技的逆襲》(The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter)作者 |
antoine gara financial times: Rethinking Real Estate Dror Poleg, 2019-10-31 Technology is revolutionizing the way real estate is designed, operated, and valued. It is democratizing access to capital and information, changing the way tenants use space, and eroding the power of regulation. Billions of dollars are funding these new real estate technologies and operating models. Value is shifting away from the assets themselves toward those who understand the needs of specific end-users and can use technology to deliver comprehensive, on-demand solutions. With all of these developments, there is an urgent need for a resource that helps industry practitioners think differently about their investment, customers, and competition. Rethinking Real Estate answers that call. It explores the impact of technology on all asset types — from retail projects, through lodging and residential properties, to office buildings and industrial facilities. Based on the author’s two decades of experience working across four continents alongside the world’s leading real estate investors, as well as hundreds of conversations with start-up founders and venture capitalists, this book provides practitioners with key insights, methodologies, and practical strategies to identify risks, take advantage of emerging opportunities, evaluate new competitors, and transform their organization, project, venture, or career. Whether you are an investor, developer, operator, broker, lender, facility manager, designer, planner, or technology entrepreneur, this book will help you navigate the exciting period ahead. |
antoine gara financial times: 當少數金融機構控制一切時:指數基金與私募股權基金對經濟與政治的危害 約翰‧科茨John Coates, 2024-04-09 新一輪經濟和政治危機,正在成形 當一小部分機構獲得能夠操控一個國家政治和經濟的手段時,就會出現「寡頭難題」(或稱為「權力集中問題」)。如今,兩個二十世紀後期的機構──指數基金和私募股權基金──正在製造新一輪的權力集中問題。這兩種基金的規模如此龐大,對經濟的影響層面又如此之廣,使得它們擁有自己也未必想要的經濟與政治權力。它們因為手握大權,成為政治威嚇的目標。這兩種機構都展現出規模經濟,都經由控制企業而直接或間接地積極參與政治。 先鋒集團(Vanguard)、道富集團(State Street)、富達集團(Fidelity)和貝萊德(BlackRock)這四大指數基金掌握著超過20%的S&P 500公司的投票權,這種權力集中度在美國是前所未有的。此外,私募股權基金的崛起,諸如阿波羅(Apollo)、黑石(Blackstone)、凱雷(Carlyle)和KKR這四大基金,已聚積了2.7兆美元的資產,它們正在侵蝕美國資本主義的合法性和責任,不是透過控制上市公司,而是透過完全接管它們,使其脫離公共討論和公眾監督。 在過去的幾十年裡,這種無聲的聚積代表了美國經濟運作方式的巨大轉變,這是很少有人注意到、但所有人都應該關注的變化。哈佛大學法學教授約翰‧科茨在本書中分析並解答:有沒有可能在不損及兩種機構創造出來的經濟效益的狀況下,又能降低它們各自在經濟、政治和政策方面造成的風險? 專業推薦—— Jenny/JC財經觀點創辦人 Mr. Market市場先生/財經作家 王俊傑/國立中山大學政治經濟學系副教授 林志潔/國立陽明交通大學特聘教授、金融消費評議中心前董事長 (依姓名筆畫排序) 「科茨主張,沒有責任的權力總是危險的。而他是對的。」 ──《紐約時報》 (New York Times) 「資本主義由掌握資本的人決定。約翰‧科茨依據一生的經驗和研究,提出一個引人注目的觀點,認為美國資本主義在二十一世紀初由十二家不夠負責任的機構主導。他的開創性分析和建議值得所有關心我們經濟未來的人關注。」 ──勞倫斯‧桑默斯(Lawrence H. Summers),美國財政部前部長,哈佛大學甘迺迪學院摩薩瓦─拉赫馬尼商業與政府中心主任 「從集中經濟權力中產生的政治危險是美國歷史中一個反覆出現的主題。科茨的書針對少數私營金融機構的影響提供了不可或缺的指導,也對我們如何應對集中金融權力提供了必要的答案。」 ──吳修銘(Tim Wu),《巨頭的詛咒》作者,現任拜登總統科技和競爭政策特別助理 「少數人手中的權力集中問題是我們所有人都應該深感擔憂的問題。約翰‧科茨生動描述了指數基金和私募股權基金的影響讓這個問題變得更加嚴重,而我們大多數人甚至沒有意識到,主要參與者的活動也被籠罩在神祕面紗之下。這本書對所有關心美國資本主義未來的人來說是一個警醒。」 ──奧利弗‧哈特(Oliver D. Hart),諾貝爾經濟學獎得主,哈佛大學路易斯與琳達‧蓋瑟大學教授 |
antoine gara financial times: Financialization and the Future of the American Economy William K Tabb, 2023-07-14 Financialization is a set of processes which has led to a financially driven and commodified economy with rising inequality, tax avoidance, and a lack of investment in the physical and social infrastructure. Given the influence of money politics, and the secular increase in the burden of debt, financialization has produced a deeply flawed economic system which mainstream economists are unable to address. This book discusses the causes and costs of financial crises, how financialization produces inequality and instability, and the patterns of value extraction it enables. It draws on key theoretical traditions, most prominently the writing of Marx, Keynes, and Minsky that illuminate much that is ignored and rejected in mainstream theorizing, including by many who identify as Keynesians. After decades of low interest rates and years of quantitative easing (QE), keeping borrowing costs near zero, many borrowers – households, businesses, banks, shadow banks, and governments – will not be able to finance their debt at the higher interest rates initiated by central banks to address inflation. The resulting stagflation will be global, producing a severe downturn that may be postponed through still greater debt creation but not avoided by conventional means. The book also explores the ways that standard financial criteria contribute to the climate emergency and the manner in which the commodification of nature proceeds from the desire to create new, marketable derivative products. It concludes with a discussion of what needs to be done to move away from a harmful regime of accumulation premised on financialization and to adopt a far better one. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the causes and consequences of financialization and its impact on the economy. |
antoine gara financial times: El precio siempre sube Zeke Faux, 2024-09-03 En 2021, las criptomonedas se convirtieron en la corriente dominante. Los grandes fondos de inversión las compraban, famosos como Tom Brady las apoyaban, y en la televisión se las proclamaba el futuro del dinero. Aunque casi nadie sabía cómo funcionaban, ¿a quién le importaban los detalles cuando todo el mundo estaba ganando una fortuna con Dogecoin, Shiba Inu o cualquier otro «activo digital» con un nombre curioso? Mientras asistía como espectador a semejante frenesí, al periodista de investigación Zeke Faux no dejaba de rondarle por la cabeza una pregunta persistente: ¿era todo aquello un juego de confianza de proporciones épicas? Lo que empezó como mera curiosidad, y cierta envidia sana, terminaría transformándose en una búsqueda de dos años que le acabaría llevando por medio mundo en un intento por descubrir a los magos que se escondían detrás de la nueva maquinaria financiera mundial. Su investigación le conduciría hasta Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), un hombre desaliñado y de pelo encrespado de veintinueve años, y a una horda de estafadores, utópicos y nuevos multimillonarios del sector de las criptomonedas. El precio siempre sube es la crónica definitiva, por momentos desgarradora y escandalosa, de un engaño financiero de 3000 millones de dólares. |
antoine gara financial times: Private Equity in einer Welt von Unsicherheiten und Opportunitäten Dieter Gericke, 2024-10-30 Dieser 9. Band zu Private Equity ist ein Muss für Rechts-, Steuer- und Finanzberater sowie Akteure der Private Equity und Venture Capital-Welt. Die Beiträge decken Themen ab wie die Besonderheiten bei M&A-Transaktionen durch Private Equity, steuerliche Fragen der Akquisitionsstrukturierung sowie Sweet Equity. Ferner werden Private Equity Investments in Publikumsgesellschaften (PIPES und Take Privates) beleuchtet und Fragen rund um das brisante Thema der Steward Ownership beantwortet. Sie basieren auf den Vorträgen erfahrener Fachexperten anlässlich der 9. Tagung zu Private Equity des Europa Instituts an der Universität Zürich vom Januar 2024. Zusammen mit den bisher erschienen Bänden liegt ein Sammelwerk vor über die wichtigsten Themen von Private Equity und Venture Capital, verfasst von führenden Experten auf diesem Gebiet. |
antoine gara financial times: Hedged Margot Susca, 2024-01-23 The untold history of an American catastrophe The ultrawealthy largely own and guide the newspaper system in the United States. Through entities like hedge funds and private equity firms, this investor class continues to dismantle the one institution meant to give voice to average citizens in a democracy. Margot Susca reveals the little-known history of how private investment took over the newspaper industry. Drawing on a political economy of media, Susca’s analysis uses in-depth interviews and documentary evidence to examine issues surrounding ownership and power. Susca also traces the scorched-earth policies of layoffs, debt, cash-outs, and wholesale newspaper closings left behind by private investors and the effects of the devastation on the future of news and information. Throughout, Susca reveals an industry rocked less by external forces like lost ad revenue and more by ownership and management obsessed with profit and beholden to private fund interests that feel no responsibility toward journalism or the public it is meant to serve. |
antoine gara financial times: 撒錢之王:聯準會如何崩壞美國經濟,第一部FED決策內情報告 克里斯多福.倫納德(Christopher Leonard), 2023-03-30 「這是一場長期的崩盤,這些帳我們都還沒付清!」 本書揭露聯準會跨越紅線的決策內情,細數從全球金融風暴到量化寬鬆撒錢救市, 如何助長高風險投資,造成難以衡量的長期金融風險與社會動盪 ★為什麼聯準會升息會引發銀行倒閉連鎖風暴?銀行真的已經大到不能倒? ★為什麼股市、房價持續發燒,但中產階級的薪資跟存款卻不斷縮水? ★美國離準會的貨幣寬鬆政策,如何隨著跨國資本移動,影響全世界? .一九一三年到二○○八年,聯準會逐步提高貨幣供給,從五十億美元慢慢增至八千四百七十億美元。 .二○○八年底到二○一○年初,聯準會創造出一.二兆美元,創造出來的新資金相當於之前百年的總和。 .二○二○年新冠疫情來襲,聯準會為了救市,在短短兩個月內挹注了等於過去三百年的資金量。 「美國仰賴聯準會處理經濟問題,就是仰賴一套錯得離譜的工具。聯準會挹注的資金,只會加大美國贏家跟輸家之間的差距,醞釀出更嚴重的動盪不安。」 《撒錢之王》說出一個讓人震驚但又引人入勝的故事,透過一位試著警告眾人的聯準會資深官員傳達的資訊,娓娓道來量化寬鬆如何損害了美國經濟,擴大了全球金融風險。這是第一份內情報導,告訴我們為何今天會來到這般地步,以及為何我們將要面對的是令人恐懼的未來。 * * * 經歷了二○○八年的全球金融危機,到二○二○年新冠疫情爆發。越來越多人質疑,為什麼經濟成長的好處落在愈來愈小的一群人手裡?為什麼股市快速飆漲,中產階級的薪資卻不斷下滑? 《紐約時報》財經暢銷書作家克里斯多福.倫納德帶領讀者深入美國最神祕的機構:聯準會。全書開篇以一名擇善固執的聯準會資深官員霍尼格的視角,生動還原了二○一○年十一月聯邦公開市場委員會的開會過程。霍尼格憑藉多年的專業認知與心中的不安,投下當時唯一的反對票。然而,霍尼格的異議顯得微不足道。在當時主席柏南克的強勢主導下,聯準會啟動了激進的「量化寬鬆」干預手段,將利率突破零限,出手挽救美國經濟。 之後短短幾年,聯準會創造的貨幣供給多了四倍有餘,行動目標只有一個:鼓勵銀行以及其他投資人轉往更高風險的投資標的。聯準會的領導者知道他們正在推動一項大膽實驗,會導致實質的工作職缺變少,而且創造出難以衡量的長期風險。但是聯準會還是動手了……爾後才發現自己被困住了。一旦聯準會創造出這些資金,就不可能回收不在經濟體裡流通。當聯準會嘗試扭轉,唯見市場開始崩盤,到這個時候,聯準會只能再度打開資金的水龍頭。尤其當新冠病毒疫情來襲時,聯準會的緊急應變,就在短短兩個月內挹注了等於過去三百年的資金量。 回過頭看,任何單項的政府政策,可能都不如二○一○年十一月四日那天聯準會開始執行的政策那般,重新塑造了美國的經濟生命,將美國經濟體明確分成貧富兩個陣營。理解聯準會在二○一○年十一月的所作所為,是理解美國經濟之後十年奇特走向的關鍵;在這十年間,資產價格高漲,股市欣欣向榮,美國中產階級卻被愈拋愈遠。貧富之間的差距大幅拉開,股價遠遠高於企業實際獲利可支撐的水準,美國的公司債來到歷史高點……二○○八年的長期崩盤已經演變成二○二○年的長期崩盤,這些帳直到今天我們都還沒付清。 ▍重量級權威推薦 朱雲鵬│東吳大學講座教授、前行政院政務委員 吳惠林│中華經濟研究院特約研究員 沈雲驄│早安財經文化發行人 周岐原│風傳媒財經主編 邱達生│台經院研究員、東海大學經濟系兼任教授 范琪斐│資深媒體人 孫明德│台灣經濟研究院 景氣預測中心主任 陳南光│台大經濟系教授 陳鳳馨│News98財經起床號 節目主持人 蘭 萱│資深媒體人、中廣蘭萱時間節目主持人 * * * 「倫納德的新書可讀性極高,講述的是其中一個重要性最高、但最少人報導且最不被理解的美國社會變化:聯準會在金融市場中扮演愈來愈重要角色造成的影響。就像倫納德讓人信服的主張所說,未來恐少不了災難。」 —— 貝瑟妮.麥克琳(Bethany McLean),《紐約時報》暢銷書《安隆風暴》(The Smartest Guys in the Room)共同作者 「這是一部至為重要、引人入勝,以及,最重要的,人味十足的故事,故事裡主角有一位敢於與官方不同調的央行官員,以及一位因為這名異議人士的主張不受支持而受到苦難折磨的工廠勞工。講貨幣政策的書會讓人手不釋卷嗎?克里斯多夫.倫納德還真的寫出了一本。」 ——詹姆斯.格蘭特(James Grant),《格蘭特利率觀察報》(Grant’s Interest Rate Observer) 「感謝倫納德扣人心弦的敘事,現在我心中有新的貨幣政策英雄:聯準會前理事霍尼格。如果你也和我一樣,想要明白我們為何陷入這般困境,一定要讀《撒錢之王》。」 ——威廉.科漢(William D. Cohan),《紐約時報》暢銷書《紙牌屋》(House of Cards)作者 「倫納德的報導內容豐富,更有刺激的探索,都會讓你再去評估聯準會到底是立於堅實的基礎之上,還是根本都是空虛。」 —— 傑西.艾辛格(Jesse Eisinger), 普立茲獎(Pulitzer Prize)獲獎作品《烏合之眾》(The Chickenshit Club )作者 「這本書讓人大開眼界。本書做了翔實的研究,內容引人入勝,讓影響多數美國人當前與未來福祉的重要議題有了生命…… 這趟過程如何結束,不僅左右著美國,也將衝擊全世界。」 —— 穆罕默德.埃爾艾里安,《紐約時報》暢銷書《唯一的選擇》作者兼劍橋大學皇后學院(Queens’ College, Cambridge University)院長 |
antoine gara financial times: ترويض الشمس ابتكارات لتسخير الطاقة الشمسية و إمداد الكوكب بالطاقة فارون سيفارام, 2022-02-09 فارون سيفارام هو عالم فيزياء ورئيس قسم التكنولوجيا في شركة رينو باور فيتشر، وهي شركة طاقة متجددة بمليارات الدولارات، و تعد الأكبر في الهند، وهو أيضًا باحث من الطراز الأول في مركز جامعة كولومبيا لسياسة الطاقة العالمية، وعضو مجلس إدارة معاهد الطاقة والبيئة بجامعة ستانفورد. ومؤخرًا كان زميلًا في مجلس العلاقات الخارجية، حيث أدار برنامج الطاقة الخاص به، وأستاذًا مساعدًا في جامعة جورج تاون، حيث درَّس (ابتكار الطاقة النظيفة)، وقد عمل أيضًا مستشارًا لرئيس بلدية لوس أنجلوس ومكتب محافظ نيويورك بوصفه مستشارًا للطاقة، ومستشارًا في شركة ماكينزي آند كومباني. أطلقت عليه مجلة (بي في الكهروضوئية) لقب (هاملتون لصناعة الطاقة الشمسية)، وأطلقت عليه مجلة (فوربس) لقب (واحد من أفضل 30 شخصًا تحت سن الثلاثين في ريادة الأعمال)، واختارته (غريست) كواحد من أفضل 50 رائدًا في مجال الاستدامة، وهو محرر كتاب (إزالة الكربون الرقمي: تشجيع الابتكارات الرقمية لتطوير أنظمة الطاقة النظيفة). |
antoine gara financial times: Kleptopia Tom Burgis, 2021-09-07 A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November…. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world’s most powerful dictatorships.” –Washington Post In this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes “capitalism’s monster”—global kleptocracy—and reveals how it is corrupting the world around us. They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh Desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London. They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power. In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together four stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption: the troublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles on the secrets of a Swiss bank, the ex-Soviet billionaire constructing a private empire, the righteous Canadian lawyer with a mysterious client, and the Brooklyn crook protected by the CIA. Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years. In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great. |
antoine gara financial times: De strijd om het vogeltje Kurt Wagner, 2024-06-06 De strijd om het vogeltje is het verslag van de rommelige bedrijfsgeschiedenis van Twitter – inclusief de overname door Elon Musk in 2022 – en de belangrijke rol van het sociale medium in het vormgeven van de manier waarop de wereld haar nieuws krijgt. Kurt Wagner, journalist van Bloomberg, neemt je mee op een duizelingwekkende vlucht door de geschiedenis van Twitter. Met boeiende ooggetuigenverslagen van medewerkers van toen en nu, vertelt hij hoe Twitter ooit begon als sociaal platform met luchtige berichten van 140 tekens en uitgroeide tot een van de meest invloedrijke technologiebedrijven ter wereld. Hij gaat in op de triomfantelijke terugkeer van de idealist Jack Dorsey als CEO in 2015, de opkomst en ondergang van @RealDonaldTrump en de controversiële verkoop aan Elon Musk voor 44 miljard dollar. |
antoine gara financial times: Die Männer von Davos Peter S. Goodman, 2022-09-18 Die Geschichte des letzten halben Jahrhunderts in Amerika, Europa und anderen großen Volkswirtschaften ist die Geschichte der Umverteilung des Wohlstands von unten nach oben. Der Triumph des Kapitalismus hat zu der Entstehung einer kleinen, aber sehr mächtigen Gruppe an Superreichen geführt: den Davos Man. Es sind Männer, die sich so sehr an die Spielregeln der globalisierten Welt angepasst haben, dass sie in keinem Land der Welt mehr verwurzelt sind. Ihr Vermögen ist weltweit angelegt, auf allen Kontinenten unterhalten sie Anwesen und Jachten und ihre Heerscharen von Lobbyisten und Wirtschaftsprüfern arbeiteten weltweit, um ihren Reichtum vor dem Zugriff der Finanzbehörden zu schützen. Der preisgekrönten Wirtschaftskorrespondenten der New York Times, Peter S. Goodman, porträtiert fünf repräsentative Davos Man: Jeff Bezos, James Dimon, Marc Benioff, Stephen Schwarzman und Larry Fink. Seine Enthüllungen zeigen auf, dass die Plünderung der Welt durch den Davos Man Einfluss hat auf nahezu jeden Aspekt der modernen Gesellschaft: die schrumpfenden Möglichkeiten, einen existenzsichernden Lohn zu verdienen, die Anfälligkeit unserer Gesundheitssysteme, den Zugang zu erschwinglichem Wohnraum und sogar die Qualität der Kleidung, die man trägt. Vor allem jedoch legt er überzeugend dar, wie die Raubzüge des Davos Man zum Aufstieg rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen geführt und somit die Demokratie gefährlich destabilisiert haben. Eine unverzichtbare Lektüre für jeden, der sich Gedanken macht über wirtschaftliche Gerechtigkeit und die Fähigkeit von Gesellschaften, ihre größten Herausforderungen zu bewältigen. |
antoine gara financial times: Corrupção e governo: causas, consequências e reforma Susan Rose-Ackerman , Bonnie J. Palifka, 2020-08-01 Neste trabalho de fôlego, as autoras Rose-Ackerman e Palifka analisam a corrupção de uma perspectiva abrangente. De um lado, a obra reconhece que a corrupção é um tema multidimensional, que possui raízes econômicas, culturais, políticas e éticas. De outro lado, a obra enfatiza a importância dos incentivos econômicos como um fator essencial para entender e atacar a corrupção. Destaca, ainda, que a estrutura institucional de cada jurisdição molda esses incentivos, afetando custos e benefícios para que agentes públicos e privados participem de arranjos corruptos. A obra parte de uma definição ampla de corrupção como abuso de um poder delegado (entrusted power) para ganhos privados, lançando luz imediatamente a um problema agente-principal, em que um agente público pode se desviar da sua função para atingir objetivos privados (o que inclui não apenas o recebimento de dinheiro em troca de favores, mas envolve também outras práticas, como peculato, nepotismo, extorsão etc.). É esse desvio da confiança depositada nos agentes públicos que acaba minando a legitimidade de governos e afetando negativamente tanto políticas de crescimento quanto de equidade. |
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Antoine - Wikipedia
Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin Antonius meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin.
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Antoine’s Restaurant is still owned and operated by fifth generation relatives of the original founder, Antoine Alciatore. The world-renowned French-Creole cuisine, impeccable service, …
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Antoine - Name Meaning and Origin
The name Antoine is of French origin and is derived from the Latin name Antonius. It means "priceless" or "invaluable." Antoine is a masculine name that has been popular in France and …
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