Twenty years ago Austin, Texas was a small, unassuming city whose greatest distinctions were being the state capital and the home of the University of Texas. Today Austin is touted in such places as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times as one of the fastest-growing cities in America. Its population shot up from 186,000 in 1960 to more than 700,000 in 1987. It is home to such notable companies as IBM, Motorola, Lockhead, and Tracor, and in 1983 Austin beat out scores of American cities to attract the glamorous high tech research consortium known as MCC.
$ MONEY $ It is understandable that we all need money for survival purposes. This is fine and dandy; is acceptable in society but to purposely defraud other people, to get possession of money, is unacceptable no matter of any circumstance. Politicians seem to hoard onto this conception that money is their ‘GOD’. The more they posses, the more they have power to control. Politicians, drug cartels, gangs and let us not forget religion are aware of this fact. The richer you are in society, the better people will follow you, supposedly. The ‘Elite’ in all societies of the world are equally guilty of this crime, called murder on the unsuspecting citizens by depriving these citizens of certain ‘FREEDOMS’ or plainly swindling them out of their hard earned money, not included are the lazy, incompetent people, who devour the “Welfare System” dry, not even trying to better themselves. Murder is hidden by the non-compliance of doing the right thing as it happens, for prevention as well as protection. This is where this book illustrates certain areas in our American past, which contribute to the beginning of corruption. Corruption is a way of dishonest living in order to remain on top or even to gain the top position. Political separation of parties are a way of distracting the public’s focus of what all politicians are involved in, un-constitutional, biased, prejudice and let us begin the “Olympic Blame Game” of each party is guilty but not me, when in reality all are involved in a ‘False Flag” cover-up of camouflaged deception, to gain more wealth even if it includes a mass murder. You will be amazed about certain people involved in this book, which seemed honest but in reality are very wicked indeed. This book is the sequel to “AMERICA, The Sleeping Giants MUST Awake” which explains into depth ‘Barack Hussein Obama, the creator of ‘Obamanism’ and of his cronies at large.
An “engaging and well-researched study [of] ordinary people who joined together to challenge financial institutions” (Choice). Banks and bankers are hardly the most beloved institutions and people in this country. With its corruptive influence on politics and stranglehold on the American economy, Wall Street is held in high regard by few outside the financial sector. But the pitchforks raised against this behemoth are largely rhetorical: We rarely see riots in the streets or public demands for an equitable and democratic banking system that result in serious national changes. Yet the situation was vastly different a century ago, as Christopher W. Shaw shows. This book upends the conventional thinking that financial policy in the early twentieth century was set primarily by the needs and demands of bankers. Shaw shows that banking and politics were directly shaped by the literal and symbolic investments of the grassroots. This engagement remade financial institutions and the national economy, through populist pressure and the establishment of federal regulatory programs and agencies like the Farm Credit System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Shaw reveals the surprising groundswell behind seemingly arcane legislation, as well as the power of the people to demand serious political repercussions for the banks that caused the Great Depression. One result of this sustained interest and pressure was legislation and regulation that brought on a long period of relative financial stability, with a reduced frequency of economic booms and busts. Ironically, this stability led to the decline of the very banking politics that brought it about. Giving voice to a broad swath of American figures, including workers, farmers, politicians, and bankers alike, Money, Power, and the People recasts our understanding of what might be possible in balancing the needs of the people with those of their financial institutions.
I want to let my readers and audiences to know that this book is not written to discriminate against anyone regardless of the sexes, races, classes, and genders, as well as anyone’s religions. I wrote this book because of a lot of awareness and concern that some of us are having in this world without knowing what is really going on within them. I want to say that viewer discretion is advised.
This text explores a broad range of media-related topics as they pertain to China. The chapters provide detailed analyses of such issues as the increasing influence of advertisers; the efforts of the Communist party to direct editorial content; and the impact of Hong Kong television on Guanggzhou.
Through economics, our politicians have the power to transform people's lives for better or worse. Think Deng Xiaoping who lifted millions out of poverty by opening up China; Franklin D Roosevelt whose 'New Deal' helped the USA break free of the Great Depression. Or Peron and his successors in Argentina who brought the country to the brink of ruin. In this magisterial history, economist and politician Vince Cable examines the legacy of 16 world leaders who transformed their countries' economic fortunes and who also challenged economic convention. From Thatcher to Trump, from Lenin to Bismarck, Money and Power provides a whole new perspective on the science of government. Examining the fascinating interplay of economics and politics, this is a compelling journey through some of the most significant people and events of the last 300 years.
Rich or poor, we all face the problem of money. But is money chiefly a personal problem of how we manage our resources or a societal problem of how we organize the economy? Jacques Ellul exposes the folly of a purely societal approach -- whether communism, collectivism, socialism, or capitalism -- and argues for individual responsibility. Money, he says, is not neutral, somthing we can use as we like. Instead it is a powerful agent that sets itself against God's kingdom. Tracing the scriptural attitudes toward wealth from Old Testament sacramentalism through New Testament renunciation, he challenges Christians to live by the law of grace and not by the law of the marketplace.
