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King Dollar

The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency

by Paul Blustein ...

**An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the world“Magisterial.”—Edward Chancellor, Reuters**Prophecies that the dollar will lose its status as the world’s dominant currency have echoed for decades—and are increasing in volume. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts claim that Bitcoin or other blockchain-based ... Read more

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**An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the world“Magisterial.”—Edward Chancellor, Reuters**Prophecies that the dollar will lose its status as the world’s dominant currency have echoed for decades—and are increasing in volume. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts claim that Bitcoin or other blockchain-based
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Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations

Clashing Egos, Inflated Ambitions, and the Great Shambles of the World Trade System

by Paul Blustein ...

As a linchpin of global capitalism, the World Trade Organization is both revered and reviled. In this book, financial journalist Paul Blustein tells the surprisingly entertaining and compelling story of how the WTO is sliding into dysfunctionality -- which poses a new and grave menace to globalization itself.In more than seven years of global talks the WTO has struggled and failed to resolve ... Read more

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As a linchpin of global capitalism, the World Trade Organization is both revered and reviled. In this book, financial journalist Paul Blustein tells the surprisingly entertaining and compelling story of how the WTO is sliding into dysfunctionality -- which poses a new and grave menace to globalization itself.In more than seven years of global talks the WTO has struggled and failed to resolve
... Read more
The Chastening

Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The Imf

by Paul Blustein ...

Lauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the series of economic crises that rocked the globe in the last decade. Based on hundreds of interviews with officials at the IMF, the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the White House, and many foreign governments, The Chastening offers a behind-the ... Read more

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Lauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the series of economic crises that rocked the globe in the last decade. Based on hundreds of interviews with officials at the IMF, the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the White House, and many foreign governments, The Chastening offers a behind-the
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And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina

by Paul Blustein ...

In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and Wall Street. But the club has a disturbing propensity to turn its back on arrivistes and cast them out. That was what happened in 2001, when Argentina suffered one of the most spectacular crashes in ... Read more

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In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and Wall Street. But the club has a disturbing propensity to turn its back on arrivistes and cast them out. That was what happened in 2001, when Argentina suffered one of the most spectacular crashes in
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King Dollar

The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency

by Paul Blustein ...

Narrated by David Stifel ...

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12 hours 42 min

An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the worldProphecies that the dollar will lose its status as the world's dominant currency have echoed for decades—and are increasing in volume. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts claim that Bitcoin or other blockchain-based monetary units will replace the dollar. Foreign ... Read more

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An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the worldProphecies that the dollar will lose its status as the world's dominant currency have echoed for decades—and are increasing in volume. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts claim that Bitcoin or other blockchain-based monetary units will replace the dollar. Foreign
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Optimist, The

Sam Altman, OpenAI and the Race to Invent the Future

by Keach Hagey ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

Unabridged

12 hours 21 min

From an acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter comes the first biography of the enigmatic leader of the AI revolution, charting his ascent within the tech world as well as his ambitions for this powerful new technology.On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chatbot that captivated the world with its uncanny ability to hold humanlike conversations. Not even a year later, on November 17, ... Read more

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From an acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter comes the first biography of the enigmatic leader of the AI revolution, charting his ascent within the tech world as well as his ambitions for this powerful new technology.On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chatbot that captivated the world with its uncanny ability to hold humanlike conversations. Not even a year later, on November 17,
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Our Dollar, Your Problem

An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff ...

Narrated by Evan Sibley ...

Unabridged

12 hours 57 min

A leading economist explores the global rise of the US dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured.Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck.Drawing in part on his own experiences, including with policymakers and world leaders, Kenneth Rogoff animates the remarkable postwar run of ... Read more

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A leading economist explores the global rise of the US dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured.Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck.Drawing in part on his own experiences, including with policymakers and world leaders, Kenneth Rogoff animates the remarkable postwar run of
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How Progress Ends

Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations

by Carl Benedikt Frey ...

Narrated by Richard Lyddon ...

Unabridged

17 hours 54 min

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardThis audiobook narrated by Richard Lyddon spans 1,000 years of global history to show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapseIn How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardThis audiobook narrated by Richard Lyddon spans 1,000 years of global history to show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapseIn How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of
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Plunder

Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

by Brendan Ballou ...

Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

Unabridged

8 hours 37 min

The authoritative exposé of private equity: what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop itPrivate 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 ... Read more

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The authoritative exposé of private equity: what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop itPrivate 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
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Our Dollar, Your Problem

An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff ...

Series series The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series
A National Bestseller • Recommended by Financial Times as “What to Read in 2025”**“The central argument of Our Dollar, Your Problem—that the greenback’s pre-eminence was never guaranteed and might plausibly be overturned—could hardly be more timely.”—The EconomistA leading economist explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured**Our Dollar, Your ... Read more

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A National Bestseller • Recommended by Financial Times as “What to Read in 2025”**“The central argument of Our Dollar, Your Problem—that the greenback’s pre-eminence was never guaranteed and might plausibly be overturned—could hardly be more timely.”—The EconomistA leading economist explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured**Our Dollar, Your
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Chokepoints

American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

by Edward Fishman ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to confront a new authoritarian axis—Russia, China, and Iran."Deftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics."— Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal"A timely, riveting world tour...[An] absorbing book."— The ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to confront a new authoritarian axis—Russia, China, and Iran."Deftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics."— Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal"A timely, riveting world tour...[An] absorbing book."— The
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Ruminations on the Distortion of Oil Prices and Crony Capitalism

Selected Writings

by Raymond J. Learsy ...

At great cost and risk to the American and world economies, consumers are ripped off billions of dollars every day by oil interests and their malevolent influence on market pricing mechanisms. Its essential Americans and oil consumers throughout the world understand where the money they pay for oils downstream products goesincluding the money paid at the pump, the money paid to heat their homes, ... Read more

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At great cost and risk to the American and world economies, consumers are ripped off billions of dollars every day by oil interests and their malevolent influence on market pricing mechanisms. Its essential Americans and oil consumers throughout the world understand where the money they pay for oils downstream products goesincluding the money paid at the pump, the money paid to heat their homes,
... Read more

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