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George Soros • Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire
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Only to DC did he carry a suit: the stakes justified the sacrifice. In recent decades, the laws in the United States had been loosened so that people and even corporations could donate effectively unlimited sums of money to political campaigns and super PACs, without the larger American public being able to see exactly what they were doing, or why.
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
as the trend progresses, it comes to be understood that the central, underlying system that is being corrupted is the currency, that most of today’s political and financial malfeasance depends on easy money, and that inflation is an ongoing policy of this pervasive new regime. When this realization becomes sufficiently wide-spread, the trends towar
... See moreJohn Rubino • The Money Bubble
According to Ivar, by 1932 he had 225 subsidiaries. He had operations in every civilized country except Russia, and he manufactured three-quarters of the world’s matches. Ivar had secured match monopolies in twenty-four countries. During seven years, he had loaned almost 300 million dollars to European governments. Ivar’s loans had helped borrower
... See moreFrank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals




Money is as much a social construct as it is a government one. Together, we must make sure that the values that are enshrined today in the US dollar and the currencies of other democracies—values like individual liberty, freedom of speech, personal privacy, free enterprise, and the rule of law—are encoded in the digital money of the future.
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Cameron Winklevoss, • CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money
the big issue is lots of available money and not enough opportunities to invest in things that create wealth.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Neoliberalism
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