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When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm

When McKinsey Comes to Town The Hidden Influence of the Worlds Most Powerful Consulting Firm

n Gary, Indiana, just past the rusting bridges, peeling paint, and railroad switching station sits a green well-tended plot of land that seems oddly out of place. It is a grassy knoll of bushes and trees overshadowed by the drab, hulking remains of a plant run by what was once the world’s biggest, most profitable […]

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Advanced Techniques in Day Trading: A Practical Guide to High Probability Strategies and Methods

Advanced Techniques in Day Trading A Practical Guide to High Probability Strategies and Methods

This publication can be regarded as a sequel to my first book, How to Day Trade for a Living: A Beginner’s Guide to Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology. In that first book, I explained the fundamentals of day trading and how day trading is different from other styles of trading and […]

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Linked: Conquer LinkedIn. Get Your Dream Job. Own Your Future

Linked Conquer LinkedIn. Get Your Dream Job. Own Your Future

Get Ready to Launch The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL The Journey Begins Congratulations! You’ve just taken a huge step forward in your career. Believe it or not, by opening this book, you’ve invested in yourself. Why? Because this isn’t your typical self-help book about finding yourself. Instead, it’s […]

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Passive Income, Aggressive Retirement: The Secret to Freedom

Passive Income, Aggressive Retirement The Secret to Freedom

Ladles and Jellyspoons, the entire premise of this book is based on the idea that traditional retirement does not work anymore, so it is essential to understand what we mean when we say traditional retirement. How have we defined retirement over the last century? How has that looked? How have people achieved it? Traditionally, people […]

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Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change

Build for Tomorrow An Action Plan for Embracing Change

You know the feeling. Change comes and we feel powerless. It’s like fighting an invisible army in the darkness. Where do we even begin? What is even the problem? We don’t feel like we have the time to truly understand the situation, and so all we want to do is make it stop. Then we […]

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Financial Markets & Institutions 13th Edition

Financial Markets & Institutions 13th Edition

Financial markets finance much of the expenditures by corporations, governments, and individuals. Financial institutions are the key intermediaries in financial markets because they transfer funds from savers to the individuals, firms, or government agencies that need funds. Financial Markets and Institutions, 13th Edition, describes financial markets and the financial institutions that serve those markets. It […]

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Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

Speed & Scale A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

“I’m scared, and I’m angry.” In 2006, I hosted a dinner after a screening of An Inconvenient Truth, former vice president Al Gore’s seminal documentary on the climate crisis. We went around the table for everyone’s reaction to the film’s urgent message. When it came to my fifteen-year-old daughter, Mary, she declared with her typical […]

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Super Imperialism. The Economic Strategy of American Empire. Third Edition

Super Imperialism. The Economic Strategy of American Empire. Third Edition

This edition of Super Imperialism is the finalized version of the analysis that I first published in the wake of President Nixon severing the dollar’s link to gold in August 1971. Closing the gold window had been imminent since the London Gold Pool was disband­ed in 1968 in response to the U.S. overseas military spending […]

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After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream

After the Ivory Tower Falls How College Broke the American Dream

My grandmother never got a chance to go to college. Yet she started one. That’s a slight oversimplification—she actually took over a small, struggling secretarial school and turned it into an accredited college awarding bachelor degrees to the middle class of Middle America—but still, her unlikely story tells us a lot about what college became […]

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Keeping Score: Using the Right Metrics to Drive World Class Performance

Keeping Score Using the Right Metrics to Drive World Class Performance

Every day, thousands of managers and professionals in all types of orga­nizations spend thousands of hours collecting, reading. and sitting in meetings listening to others review perfonnance data. In fact, I would imagine that most managers and technical professionals spend at least 25 percent of their time reviewing data. This figure is probably even greater […]

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Nolo’s Guide to Single-Member LLCs Second Edition

Nolos Guide to Single-Member LLCs Second Edition

It’s a great time to be the sole owner of a small business. That’s because changes in business laws have made the single-member limited liability company (SMLLC) an option in every state. In addition, when Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017, it included a new deduction for people […]

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Your Limited Liability Company: An Operating Manual Ninth Edition

Your Limited Liability Company An Operating Manual Ninth Edition

Congratulations—you’ve formed a limited liability company (LLC)! Running your business as an LLC gives you limited liability for business debts (like a corporation) but allows you to avoid some of the legal formalities and tax rules that apply to corporations. It’s one of the most flexible—and efficient—ways small business owners can structure their business. To […]

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