Finance and Economics
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Everyone loves a salary. And that love grows in proportion to the size of that salary. Along with the built-in joy of receiving it, salaries have some interesting facts, which the experts at Fortrader magazine are going to share with you today. Fact #1. Who are the highest paid workers Some get small salaries, some get big salaries, and some get very, very big salaries. According to the ranking of undeservedly high salaries (yes, there is such a thing), the first place has long been firmly held by real estate agents. Fact #2. Smart move by a generous director Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford made our list with a classy gesture. On the 11th birthday of his automobile plant, Ford...
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Have you once again taken out a loan to buy a cell phone, TV or just for "current needs", driving yourself even deeper into debt? Does it seem to you as if it is all the fault of the state, which cannot provide people with normal living conditions, and of the producers, who obviously overprice their products? Unfortunately, all this is far from the truth. The only culprit for another debt or loan is your psychology, or rather, psychological attitudes. Credit - the financial kabbalah Yes, some loans can improve your financial situation, if you take them for business development and prosperity. However, in most cases, when you take out a loan, you get into even more financial kabbalah, starting...
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We all know the phrase from the legendary Soviet movie, "Citizens, keep your money in a savings bank... if you have it, of course. Except that today this is not exactly the best way to keep your money. Yes, you can keep money in an account at the Savings Bank or any other financial institution. But what if you need cash in a hurry? One way or another, you'll have to think about where to hide it. And right now we will tell you 12 very practical and interesting options where you can hide money. 1. Under the mattress. Of course, this is not the best way to hide your cash...
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It seems to you that earning a lot of money is enough to live and not deny yourself anything? Alas, sometimes even this is not enough. No matter whether you earn 10, 20, or 150 thousand rubles a month, if the money "leaves" like sand slips through your fingers, and you can do nothing about it, the result is the same: you are broke and you are thinking of whom you could borrow a thousand extra rubles from before the next paycheck. Fortrader magazine offers to learn how to effectively manage your budget - the funds that you have available. The following 10 recommendations given in this...
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Have you ever wondered why some people approach their goals every day and achieve them in a very short period of time, while others simply live as they have to, not thinking much about tomorrow? As a result, they meet old age, knowing that they do not have to boast of their special achievements. The answer to why this happens is very simple: the first people live according to their life plan, while others do not even think about it, but simply drift with the flow of life. However, even the presence of such a plan does not guarantee success, because in its preparation you can make a lot of...
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Original title: Gen Z @ Work. How the Next Generation Is Transforming the Workplace Authors: David Stillman / David Stillman Publisher: Mann, Ivanov & Ferber, 2018 ISBN 978-5-00117-167-6 Pages: 272 pp Format: 70×100/16 Weight: 460 g Hardcover Buy Book Read Chapter Book Chapter 6. Practicality Read a book about proper recruitment A book about a key force in today's job market, based on the largest study of Generation Z and co-authored with a member of that generation. Generation Z are those born between 1995 and 2012. Gradually they are becoming a major labor force in the labor market. This book is about members of Generation Z in a working environment. About their characteristics, significant differences from the "Millennials", habits, motivation, views on career and success. The author of the book, David Stillman, spent...
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The Internet is full of advice and recommendations of varying degrees of usefulness on how to become rich and successful. Some of them are useful, while others have lost relevance. It takes a good search to find the important advice that will change your financial life once and for all. Often we don't see why a particular piece of advice will lead us to success. "The credit card only helps me! Why is everyone screaming that it's bad for me?" - thinks the housewife while her husband works two jobs to cover his debts. So the experts at Fortrader magazine have picked up 20 simple, but very damaging tips, following which you are 100% likely to never become very wealthy...
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Original title: Sensemaking. The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm Authors: Christian Madsbjerg / Christian Madsbjerg Publisher: Mann, Ivanov & Ferber, 2017 ISBN 978-5-00117-080-8 Pages: 208 pages Format: 70×100/16 Weight: 510 g Binding: Hardcover Buy Book Read chapter book Creativity, not stamping Read book on blockchain Apologia for human intelligence in the era of big data tyranny. The exact sciences are a good way to explain many things on our planet, specifically things of a material nature. Chemistry, engineering, or physics are incredibly efficient. But they don't explain ourselves. The famous physicist Neil Degrasse Tyson states, "In science, when human behavior is taken into account, things become non-linear. That's why physics is simple, but sociology...
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Authors: Artem Genkin, Alexei Mikheev Publisher: Alpina Publisher, 2018 ISBN 978-5-9614-6558-7 Pages: 592 pages Format: 70×100/16 Weight: 990 g Binding: Softcover Buy Book Read Book Read the beginning of the book Read about Blockchain Blockchain and everything associated with it is one of the most breakthrough fintech technologies of recent times. Sergey Solonin. founder of QIWI, General Director of FinTech Association Blockchain allows you to create the perfect registry. A perfect registry can transform everything in the world. Tim Draper, American venture capitalist, founder and managing partner at Draper Associates. Using global and Russian examples, the authors discuss how and why blockchain technology captured the minds of millions in just a few years, caused a real cryptocurrency boom in the market and attracted...
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The main topic of economic news right now is inflation. The dollar is depreciating 9% a year, the euro more than 10%, and the situation in regional currencies is even worse. Why is this happening? For 2020-2021, in the wave of "fighting the economic consequences of the coronavirus, some $9 trillion dollars were printed and thrown into the economy. That's over 22% of all the dollars issued in the world during the entire existence of that currency. And then geopolitics, sanctions, supply chain breakdowns were added. And now the dollar, which for many was a symbol of reliability, is rapidly losing its purchasing power. What to do? Is it possible not only to protect your savings from inflation, but also to multiply...
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Original title: The Age of Cryptocurrency. How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order Author: Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey / Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey Publisher: Mann, Ivanov & Ferber, 2017 ISBN 978-5-00100-747-0 Pages: 432 pp Format: 70×100/16 Weight: 800 g Hardcover Buy Book Read Book Chapter 6. An Arms Race Read a book about the 10 leaders who changed the world economy The most detailed and accessible study of cryptocurrencies. Wall Street Journal columnists Paul Vigna and Michael Casey discuss the fears and rumors surrounding bitcoin as a means of settlement and urge readers to prepare for the new economic reality that is sure to come. In their book, they tell the story of bitcoin and analyze...
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There is hardly a person who has not heard of Roman Abramovich. Abramovich is a typical example of what Americans call a self-made-man. Having started out as a mechanic with the SU-122 Trust "Mospetsmontazh" in 1987, as of 2017 he is the 12th richest man in Russia according to Forbes magazine with a fortune of $9.1 billion. Here is a list of his tips for those who want to achieve success in life. Tip #1. Don't rush to conclusions People are very bad at predicting the future. Most assumptions are wrong, and wrong actions follow from them. We think we can read other people's minds and know the reasons for other people's actions. This is fundamentally wrong...
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Original title: From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives Author: Jeffrey E. Garten. Garten Publisher: Mann, Ivanov & Ferber, 2017 ISBN 978-5-00100-717-3 Pages: 480 pp Format: 70×100/16 Weight: 810 g Hardcover Buy Book Read Book Contents. Chapter I. Margaret Thatcher Chapter VI. John Rockefeller Read a book about 10 leaders who changed the world economy The story of globalization, the most significant force in history, told through the lives of 10 individuals who changed the world. This is the first book that looks at globalization through the lens of the personalities who made history rather than through industries or trends. Jeffrey Garten--an economist and dean of the faculty at Yale--tells who these people were, how they lived,...
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Original title: Phishing for Phools. The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller Publisher: Mann, Ivanov & Ferber, 2017 ISBN 978-5-00100-797-5 Pages: 280 pp Format: 170×240 mm (medium format) Weight: 760 g Binding: Hardcover Buy Book Read Book Contents. Preface Read a book on market and human manipulation Nobel laureates in economics challenge the concept of the invisible hand of the market and tell how markets can do both good and harm. Since the days of Adam Smith, the conventional wisdom has been that free markets lead to material prosperity. But Akerlof and Schiller are convinced: profit-seeking sellers exploit our psychological weaknesses and vulnerabilities,...
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Original title: Naked Economics. Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated) Author: Charles Wheelan / Charles Wheelan Publisher: Mann, Ivanov & Ferber, 2017 ISBN 978-5-00100-797-5 Pages: 280 pp Format: 170×240 mm (medium format) Weight: 760 g Hardcover Buy Book Read Book Contents. Preface. Chapter 1 The power of the markets: Who feeds Paris? Read a book on the simplicity of economics An interesting, fun, smart, and easy to understand book on economics. Charles Whelan, bestselling author of "Naked Statistics," is a master at turning the boring and obscure into the interesting and accessible. In this book he has done such a trick with economics, dispensing with abstruse charts and equations. Alas, economics has a less than ideal reputation: if you studied it at university, you were more likely to discuss models in classes and exams...
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Summer is vacation time. Traders go to warm seas, traditionally preferring foreign resorts to domestic ones. But traders as well as ordinary people are not strangers to anything human :), and none of them is insured against all kinds of difficulties and problems that arise during holidays abroad - you can lose money, documents or become a victim of theft. In order to avoid such situations hopelessly spoil the rest, and to reduce the negative impact of them to a minimum, it is enough to adhere to a few simple recommendations. Tip #1. A payment terminal did not accept your card, and the ATM even "ate" it. What to do? Many banks have branches abroad. Go to your...
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Original title: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Author: Michael Lewis / Lewis Michael Publisher: Alpina Publisher, 2017 ISBN 978-5-9614-5522-9 Pages: 280 pp Format: 60×90/16 (145x215 mm) Weight: 470 g Hardcover Buy Book (for iPad and iPhone | for Android) Read Book Contents. Introduction. Chapter 1. Origins Chapter 3. Can he who does not speak English lie Read a book about successful speculators The most complicated things can also be explained to the last dullard, if he has no idea of them yet; but even the simplest things cannot convince one who firmly believes that he knows what he is talking about. Leo Tolstoy, 1897 The revolt of American youth against the money culture never happened. Why ...
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[info_block align="right"]And if you don't have your trading rules written down, then every trade you make will be a mistake[/info_block] Everyone makes mistakes, and traders are no exception. Experienced traders make mistakes rarely, beginners much more often. What is a mistake? It's not following your own rules. And if you don't have your own rules written down, then every trade you make will be an error. So says Dr. Van C. Tharp, author of 11 books on the psychology of trading, and founder of the Van Tharp Institute, a company dedicated to helping develop traders. He described nine of the most common mistakes of traders, knowing about which you can not repeat them. Mistake #1. Lack of your own...
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Original title: Den of Thieves Author: James Stewart / Stewart James Publisher: Intellectual Literature, 2017 ISBN 978-5-9614-6333-0 Pages: 642 pages Format: 84×108/32 (130x200 mm) Weight: 790 g Binding: Hardcover Buy Book (for iPad and iPhone | for Android) Read Book Contents. Introduction. Chapter 1 Chapter 4 Read the book about working on Wall Street Engel and Milken knew how to manipulate the ego and insecurity that are characteristic of born losers. Engel, not a bad psychologist, believed that such clients had only two incentives in life: the next deal and the next victory on the sexual front. James B. Stewart What's the book about "The Gang of Wall Street Thieves" The book is about what machinations and deceptions lurk beneath the daily actions of Wall Street guys, whether all this is punished...
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Surely most people have an acquaintance who is always borrowing "a hundred until payday. Why is it that some people quickly achieve a stable financial situation, while others, even with a good salary, struggle to make ends meet? Here are a few money signs that will help you properly preserve and increase your savings. 1. Do not save "for a rainy day", put it aside for ... At first glance, those who save and save for a rainy day, they are quite reasonable: What if something happens and there is no money. But for some reason no one thinks: if you so wait for this rainy day, it will certainly come. Imagine if you were so waited for, cared for...
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