On The War On Cash And Its Spoils
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On The War On Cash And Its Spoils
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Author : Leo Van Hove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
On The War On Cash And Its Spoils written by Leo Van Hove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
This article brings together a number of recent studies for Belgium and the Netherlands in order to show that the War On Cash is a cause worth fighting for. It builds on two central bank studies to show that the social cost of cash is substantial, and that society would benefit from a switch to debit cards and electronic purses. As for the most effective way of bringing about such a switch, evidence is presented according to which the introduction of cost-based pricing of payment instruments would have a bigger impact than simply raising the number of EFTPOS terminals.
The Spoils Of War
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Author : Andrew Cockburn
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-09-21
The Spoils Of War written by Andrew Cockburn and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Political Science categories.
Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine—for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the West from the dangers of Islamists. The US soldiers stationed in over 800 locations across the world are meant to be the righteous arbiters of justice. Against this background, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the true intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as Cockburn witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer’s urgent financial requirements; the US Navy’s Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 for budgetary reasons. Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: as profoundly squalid as it is terrifyingly deadly.
The Spoils Of War
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Author : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
language : en
Publisher: Public Affairs
Release Date : 2016-09-27
The Spoils Of War written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and has been published by Public Affairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-27 with Political Science categories.
"It's striking how many of the presidents Americans venerate--Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, to name a few--oversaw some of the republic's bloodiest years. Perhaps it's because they looked out for important political causes. Or maybe they just looked out for themselves. This ... book puts some of America's greatest leaders under the microscope, [positing that] their calls for war, usually remembered as brave and noble, were in fact selfish and convenient"--
The Opposite Of Spoiled
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Author : Ron Lieber
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2015-02-03
The Opposite Of Spoiled written by Ron Lieber and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-03 with Family & Relationships categories.
New York Times Bestseller “We all want to raise children with good values—children who are the opposite of spoiled—yet we often neglect to talk to our children about money. . . . From handling the tooth fairy, to tips on allowance, chores, charity, checking accounts, and part-time jobs, this engaging and important book is a must-read for parents.” — Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project In the spirit of Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s Nurture Shock, New York Times “Your Money” columnist Ron Lieber delivers a taboo-shattering manifesto that explains how talking openly to children about money can help parents raise modest, patient, grounded young adults who are financially wise beyond their years For Ron Lieber, a personal finance columnist and father, good parenting means talking about money with our kids. Children are hyper-aware of money, and they have scores of questions about its nuances. But when parents shy away from the topic, they lose a tremendous opportunity—not just to model the basic financial behaviors that are increasingly important for young adults but also to imprint lessons about what the family truly values. Written in a warm, accessible voice, grounded in real-world experience and stories from families with a range of incomes, The Opposite of Spoiled is both a practical guidebook and a values-based philosophy. The foundation of the book is a detailed blueprint for the best ways to handle the basics: the tooth fairy, allowance, chores, charity, saving, birthdays, holidays, cell phones, checking accounts, clothing, cars, part-time jobs, and college tuition. It identifies a set of traits and virtues that embody the opposite of spoiled, and shares how to embrace the topic of money to help parents raise kids who are more generous and less materialistic. But The Opposite of Spoiled is also a promise to our kids that we will make them better with money than we are. It is for all of the parents who know that honest conversations about money with their curious children can help them become more patient and prudent, but who don’t know how and when to start.
Spoils
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Author : Brian Van Reet
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-05-18
Spoils written by Brian Van Reet and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with Fiction categories.
*WINNER OF THE WRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS FICTION AWARD 2017* It is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein crashing to the ground in Baghdad are being beamed to news channels around the world. Nineteen-year-old Specialist Cassandra Wigheard, on her first deployment since joining the US army two years earlier, is primed for war. For Abu al-Hool, a jihadist since the days of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, war is wearing thin. Two decades of fighting have left him questioning his commitment to the struggle. When Cassandra is taken prisoner by al-Hool’s mujahideen brotherhood, both fighters will find their loyalties tested to the very limits.
Spoils Of War A K A The Thieves
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Author : F.M. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
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Spoils Of War A K A The Thieves written by F.M. Parker and has been published by Speaking Volumes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Best selling author of COLDIRON SPOILS OF WAR a.k.a The Thieves 1846 President Polk believes in Manifest Destiny—the United States should extend to the Pacific Ocean. Mexico’s states California and New Mexico block him. Polk has a solution for that. He orders General Zachary Taylor take an army to Corpus Christi. Sixteen year old Charlie Bell lies about his age and joins Taylor's Army and marches with the 4,500 men to the Rio Grande. In a fierce battle with the Mexican Army, Charlie kills with musket and bayonet. The Americans capture Matamoros. Flush with victory, the Americans attack the walled city of Monterrey. As Charlie fights a young Mexican, both are wounded by an exploding cannon ball. While in the hospital, Charlie becomes friends with the wounded Mexican, Ernesto Armentes. Charlie helps Ernesto to escape and deserts the army. They journey to New Mexico and find it in turmoil, captured by Americans and its people being robbed by a band of murderous Texans. Desiring to own a great horse rancho, Charlie and Ernesto steal colts from Luke Coldiron and hurry into the mountains with them. Coldiron races to catch and hang the horse thieves and find the outlaw Texans. Thus begins a saga of search and vengeance as Coldiron turns hunter and killer.
The Spoils Of War
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Author : Bryan Caldwell
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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What Money Can T Buy
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Author : Michael J. Sandel
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2012-04-24
What Money Can T Buy written by Michael J. Sandel and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with Philosophy categories.
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?
No More Champagne
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Author : David Lough
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-10
No More Champagne written by David Lough and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances – and the most original and surprising book about Churchill to emerge for many years. The popular image of Churchill – grandson of a duke, drinking champagne and smoking a cigar – conjures up a man of wealth and substance. The reality is that Britain's most celebrated 20th-century statesman lived for most of his life on a financial cliff-edge. Only fragments of information about his finances, or their impact on his public life, have previously emerged. With the help of unprecedented access to Churchill's private records, David Lough creates the first fully researched narrative of Churchill's private finances and business affairs. As he reveals the scale of Churchill's financial risk-taking, combined with an ability to talk or write himself out of the tightest of corners, the links between the private man and public figure become clear.
Feasting On The Spoils
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Author : Seth Hettena
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2007-07-10
Feasting On The Spoils written by Seth Hettena and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-10 with Political Science categories.
Randy "Duke" Cunningham was an ace fighter pilot and Top Gun instructor. He came back from battle as Vietnam's most famous pilot—a Navy hero in an unpopular war. In his political life, Cunningham was an eight-term United States representative who never lost an election. So how did this powerful politician, one of the Vietnam War's most highly decorated pilots, become the most corrupt congressman in U.S. history? In 2005, Cunningham shocked the nation by pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, fraud, and tax evasion. A federal judge sentenced him to more than eight years in prison, the longest sentence handed down to a member of Congress in 40 years. And even as Cunningham was led, weeping, to prison, investigators continued to uncover a deep-rooted scandal, reaching the cozy nexus between Congress and lobbyists, military contractors, the Defense Department and the upper ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. Cunningham's bribes were seemingly endless. They included a yacht, a Rolls-Royce, and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of antiques. Defense contractors flew him aboard private chartered jets to luxury destinations, picked up the tab at expensive restaurants, and paid for his daughter's graduation party. In total, he collected at least $2.4 million in five years, a series of acts unequaled in the long, sordid history of congressional corruption. An ongoing investigation is even exploring allegations that prostitutes were hired by Cunningham's associates to entertain the congressman. His corruption and that of his cohorts was a decisive factor in the 2006 elections, as Democrats retook control of the House for the first time in more than a decade. What led a man who showed such strength and resolve in battle to show such moral weakness later in life? Had he become a prisoner of greed or was he manipulated by others far more cunning than he? What happened to Randy Cunningham? In Feasting on the Spoils, Hettena offers a probing look at deception and avarice. He paints an unforgettable portrait of a life publicly unraveled, and of a man for whom the mysteries—and the history of fraud—only seem to deepen.