Download or read book Inflation Worse than Vampires Zombies or the Plague written by Sill and published by B. Robert Sill. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inflation favors the debtor. The biggest debtor in the world is the US government and thus it is also the biggest beneficiary of inflation. If we stop and think about it, if it affects everyone equally then why bother? The answer is, it doesn’t affect everyone equally- its purpose is obviously to help out someone while someone else gets hurt. Notwithstanding which country suffers, inflation hurts the elderly, savers and anyone on a fixed income. The good guys. To hear government wonks blabber, there is no inflation. Really? Have you checked out the price of a car, meat, housing (again!), health care, education, the legal system, a dental visit, etc. Just what is the government basing a no inflation assumption on? Let's see, I can't afford to drive a car, can't afford to eat, can't go to the doctors, can't get any education and can't afford a place to live. Gee, I’m sure glad we have no inflation. Any more of this no inflation and I’ll be priced right out of my knickers. Karl Marx (1841) remarked that paper money has the same credibility that the imagined gods have. Bring paper money into a country where this use of paper is unknown, and everyone will laugh at your subjective imagination.
Download or read book Inflation written by Benjamin Sill, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inflation written by Benjamin Robert Sill Jr and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are any number of age old mysteries we have yet to resolve. Inflation is such a mystery. Many bright people have diametrically opposed views on the subject.Inflation is a critical issue. But tough to understand. This book attempts to make things a little clearer and offer a few solutions to this critical and confusing business phenomena In the United States, there are millions of people who have worked hard all their lives, scrimped, saved, and invested to build a nest egg-to ensure a decent retirement. Many could wind up barely surviving, especially savers and the elderly, now financially dependent on their families, or starving, thanks to inflation! Many of these people blindly trusted their government and don't have a clue that disaster could be looming.
Download or read book Downsizing Efficiency or Greed written by Benjamin Robert Sill and published by Pendragon. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author was a college professor for many years, with experience teaching numerous management courses. Prior to that he worked as a Mckinsey/Bain/Boston Consulting Group type consultant, for IBM, several banks and securities firms, and owned a number of small businesses. Dr. Sill’s education consists of a BS with a teaching certification, an MBA from Hood College, and Doctoral research in Strategy with a specialty in downsizing. He has studied at Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Grenoble in France, Henley Management College in England, Newcastle University in England, and Horizons University in France. He has a doctorate in International Business from Horizons. He is dead set against the “winner take all” mentality and wonders if the “going for the jugular” attitude isn’t overrated. Brains, innovation and curiosity are all admirable traits, but wouldn’t the world be a better place with a little kindness? Bob is currently retired and a widower. Spending time with, and encouraging, his two grown children is a pleasure and priority.
Download or read book Government Gone Wild written by Benjamin Robert Sill and published by Pendragon. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a battle raging between Wall Street and the Government to see if Wall Street can be greedier than the government can be stupid. It’s a close race. When your government encourages debt and favors investors and speculators over working people, things can’t end well. Make no mistake, it was the government and its supposed arm’s length lackey, the Federal Reserve, who made the rich richer and our country a shadow of its former self. Even though governments many times start out with good intentions, they gradually end up serving their own needs and protecting their turf. The main thrust is to get reelected and protect their power and wealth. Instead of serving the people, the people are manipulated. It seems as though the government could get some of these things right. There’s the question of Inflation, Inequality, foreign policy (Stick our nose in other peoples’ business. Creating wars, catering to the Military Industrial Complex, Immigration, spending out of control, poor educational policies, a broken welfare system, bank favoritism, and getting involved in abortion and gay rights (what’s that all about?)
Download or read book The Vampire Lectures written by Laurence A. Rickels and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bela Lugosi may -- as the eighties gothic rock band Bauhaus sang -- be dead, but the vampire lives on. A nightmarish figure dwelling somewhere between genuine terror and high camp, a morbid repository for the psychic projections of diverse cultures, an endlessly recyclable mass-media icon, the vampire is an enduring object of fascination, fear, ridicule, and reverence. In The Vampire Lectures, Laurence A. Rickels sifts through the rich mythology of vampirism, from medieval folklore to Marilyn Manson, to explore the profound and unconscious appeal of the undead. Based on the course Rickels has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for several years (a course that is itself a cult phenomenon on campus), The Vampire Lectures reflects Rickels's unique lecture style and provides a lively history of vampirism in legend, literature, and film. Rickels unearths a trove that includes eyewitness accounts of vampire attacks; burial rituals and sexual taboos devised to keep vampirism at bay; Hungarian countess Elisabeth Bathory's use of girls' blood in her sadistic beauty regimen; Bram Stoker's Dracula, with its turn-of-the-century media technologies; F. W. Murnau's haunting Nosferatu; and crude, though intense, straight-to-video horror films such as Subspecies. He makes intuitive, often unexpected connections among these sometimes wildly disparate sources. More than simply a compilation of vampire lore, however, The Vampire Lectures makes an original and intellectually rigorous contribution to literary and psychoanalytic theory, identifying the subconscious meanings, complex symbolism, and philosophical arguments -- particularly those of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche -- embeddedin vampirism and gothic literature.
Download or read book Capitalist Realism written by Mark Fisher and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.
Download or read book The Darkness That Comes Before written by R. Scott Bakker and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious traveler intervenes in an epic holy war in this “impressive, challenging debut” of the critically acclaimed fantasy epic (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series introduces readers to a strikingly original and engrossingly vivid new world. With its language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals, The Darkness That Comes Before has drawn comparison to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Frank Herbert’s Dune. Bakker’s Eärwa is a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future. As untold thousands gather for a crusade, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasûrimbor Kellhus—part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence—from lands long thought dead. The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.
Download or read book Masks of Mayhem written by Robin Waterfield and published by Puffin HC. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Open Veins of Latin America written by Eduardo Galeano and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America.-Back cover.
Download or read book Saving Normal written by Allen Frances, M.D. and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. These challenges are a normal part of being human, and they should not be treated as psychiatric disease. However, today millions of people who are really no more than "worried well" are being diagnosed as having a mental disorder and are receiving unnecessary treatment. In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world's most influential psychiatrists, warns that mislabeling everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for individuals and society: stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, misallocation of medical resources, and draining of the budgets of families and the nation. We also shift responsibility for our mental well-being away from our own naturally resilient and self-healing brains, which have kept us sane for hundreds of thousands of years, and into the hands of "Big Pharma," who are reaping multi-billion-dollar profits. Frances cautions that the new edition of the "bible of psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5), will turn our current diagnostic inflation into hyperinflation by converting millions of "normal" people into "mental patients." Alarmingly, in DSM-5, normal grief will become "Major Depressive Disorder"; the forgetting seen in old age is "Mild Neurocognitive Disorder"; temper tantrums are "Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder"; worrying about a medical illness is "Somatic Symptom Disorder"; gluttony is "Binge Eating Disorder"; and most of us will qualify for adult "Attention Deficit Disorder." What's more, all of these newly invented conditions will worsen the cruel paradox of the mental health industry: those who desperately need psychiatric help are left shamefully neglected, while the "worried well" are given the bulk of the treatment, often at their own detriment. Masterfully charting the history of psychiatric fads throughout history, Frances argues that whenever we arbitrarily label another aspect of the human condition a "disease," we further chip away at our human adaptability and diversity, dulling the full palette of what is normal and losing something fundamental of ourselves in the process. Saving Normal is a call to all of us to reclaim the full measure of our humanity.
Download or read book Invisible Frontier written by L.B. Deyo and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadows of the city waits an invisible frontier—a wilderness thriving in the deep places, woven through dead storm drains and live subway tunnels, coursing over third rails. This frontier waits in the walls of abandoned tenements, hides on the rooftops, infiltrates the bridges’ steel. It’s a no-man’s-land, fenced off with razor wire, marked by warning signs, persisting in shadow, hidden everywhere as a parallel dimension. Crowds hurry through the bright streets, insulated by pavement, never reflecting that beneath their feet or above their heads lurks a universe. Led by its two founding agents, L. B. Deyo and David “Lefty” Leibowitz, Jinx is a stylish urban adventure out?t known for its daring—if sometimes ridiculous—forays into the hidden wonders that lurk above and beneath America’s greatest city, New York. In Invisible Frontier L. B. and Lefty chronicle Jinx’s dramatic—if sometimes absurd—exploration of a Dante-esque New York, from the depths of the city’s underground Hell (abandoned aqueducts and subway tunnels) to the pinnacles of its Paradise (rooftops and bridges) and everything in between, capturing the genius of the city’s engineering, the vibrancy of its found art, and the elegiac beauty of its ruins. Here is a true series of wittily narrated adventures into the hidden world beneath a great civilization.
Download or read book Deep Cut written by Christine Keiner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; SCIENCE / History; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History.
Download or read book Comparing the Literatures written by David Damrosch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.
Download or read book Fleet of Worlds written by Larry Niven and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new novel set in Niven's Known Space, two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld.
Download or read book The Return of Ordinary Capitalism written by Sanford F. Schram and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate. In moments of political stability, governments emphasize a capitalistic work ethic (even if it means working a job that will leave one impoverished); when times are less politically stable, states liberalize welfare policies to recreate the conditions for political acquiescence. Sanford Schram argues in this new book that each shift produces its own path dependency even as it represents yet another iteration of what he (somewhat ironically) calls "ordinary capitalism," where the changes in market logic inevitably produce changes in the structure of the state. In today's ordinary capitalism, neoliberalism is the prevailing political-economic logic that has contributed significantly to unprecedented levels of inequality in an already unequal society. As the new normal, neoliberalism has marketization of the state as a core feature, heightening the role of economic actors, especially financiers, in shaping public policy. The results include increased economic precarity among the general population, giving rise to dramatic political responses on both the Left and the Right (Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party in particular). Schram examines neoliberalism's constraints on politics as well as social and economic policy and gives special attention to the role protest politics plays in keeping alive the possibilities for ordinary people to exercise political agency. The Return of Ordinary Capitalism concludes with political strategies for working through--rather than around--neoliberalism via a radical, rather than status-quo-reinforcing, incrementalism.
Download or read book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism written by Shoshana Zuboff and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.
