Author: Fisher, Jim
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809389681
Category : Literary agents
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Ten Percent of Nothing
Author: Fisher, Jim
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809389681
Category : Literary agents
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809389681
Category : Literary agents
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Last Resort
Author: Eric A. Posner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022642023X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair—and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren’t we encouraging them to continue to act irresponsibly, setting the stage for future crises? And beyond the ethics of it was the question of whether the government even had the authority to bail out failing firms like Bear Stearns and AIG. The answer, according to Eric A. Posner, is no. The federal government freely and frequently violated the law with the bailouts—but it did so in the public interest. An understandable lack of sympathy toward Wall Street has obscured the fact that bailouts have happened throughout economic history and are unavoidable in any modern, market-based economy. And they’re actually good. Contrary to popular belief, the financial system cannot operate properly unless the government stands ready to bail out banks and other firms. During the recent crisis, Posner agues, the law didn’t give federal agencies sufficient power to rescue the financial system. The legal constraints were damaging, but harm was limited because the agencies—with a few exceptions—violated or improvised elaborate evasions of the law. Yet the agencies also abused their power. If illegal actions were what it took to advance the public interest, Posner argues, we ought to change the law, but we need to do so in a way that also prevents agencies from misusing their authority. In the aftermath of the crisis, confusion about what agencies did do, should have done, and were allowed to do, has prevented a clear and realistic assessment and may hamper our response to future crises. Taking up the common objections raised by both right and left, Posner argues that future bailouts will occur. Acknowledging that inevitability, we can and must look ahead and carefully assess our policy options before we need them.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022642023X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair—and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren’t we encouraging them to continue to act irresponsibly, setting the stage for future crises? And beyond the ethics of it was the question of whether the government even had the authority to bail out failing firms like Bear Stearns and AIG. The answer, according to Eric A. Posner, is no. The federal government freely and frequently violated the law with the bailouts—but it did so in the public interest. An understandable lack of sympathy toward Wall Street has obscured the fact that bailouts have happened throughout economic history and are unavoidable in any modern, market-based economy. And they’re actually good. Contrary to popular belief, the financial system cannot operate properly unless the government stands ready to bail out banks and other firms. During the recent crisis, Posner agues, the law didn’t give federal agencies sufficient power to rescue the financial system. The legal constraints were damaging, but harm was limited because the agencies—with a few exceptions—violated or improvised elaborate evasions of the law. Yet the agencies also abused their power. If illegal actions were what it took to advance the public interest, Posner argues, we ought to change the law, but we need to do so in a way that also prevents agencies from misusing their authority. In the aftermath of the crisis, confusion about what agencies did do, should have done, and were allowed to do, has prevented a clear and realistic assessment and may hamper our response to future crises. Taking up the common objections raised by both right and left, Posner argues that future bailouts will occur. Acknowledging that inevitability, we can and must look ahead and carefully assess our policy options before we need them.
Once Upon a Time in Retail
Author: Siobhan Murphy
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491843187
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This is a sarcastic memoir about the trials and tribulations in the retail industry. Starting at one retail establishment and then transferring to another, the author highlights the good and the bad about each place. And even through the pain and struggle, she still found ways to grow, learn, and turn the bad into something to laugh about. Retail is not just about picking out a product and buying it--there is so much more, and she tells all.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491843187
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This is a sarcastic memoir about the trials and tribulations in the retail industry. Starting at one retail establishment and then transferring to another, the author highlights the good and the bad about each place. And even through the pain and struggle, she still found ways to grow, learn, and turn the bad into something to laugh about. Retail is not just about picking out a product and buying it--there is so much more, and she tells all.
THE PRICIPLE OF TITHING
Author: IPELENG SENYANE
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105252205
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This book is to tailormade for you to catapult from the ordinary to the extraordinary.If you are like me you want to experience peace fiancial freedom this book is a must have.I moved from poverty to great success by following the suggested tips in this powerful book.God bless you.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105252205
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This book is to tailormade for you to catapult from the ordinary to the extraordinary.If you are like me you want to experience peace fiancial freedom this book is a must have.I moved from poverty to great success by following the suggested tips in this powerful book.God bless you.
You Can Also Be Rich
Author: Ion Varani??
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469747101
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In You Can Also Be Rich, author Ion Varanita offers seventy principles, observed in some of the richest people in the world, that serve as the keys to happiness, success, and wealth. He describes how you can find the path to a better lifethe life of your dreamsif you follow these principles. From Principle #1, Be grateful for everything that the universe has created for you and thank God for everything that you have, to Principle #70, Follow your dreams, he captures the essence of what it takes to live a successful, happy, and fulfilling life in todays ever-changing world. Varanita has dedicated his life to searching for this dream and to securing success and happiness for his family; because of his perseverance and relentless searching, he has discovered it. He now lives the life of his dreams, following these seventy principles. You Can Also Be Rich can help anyone escape the darkness of poverty and despair and begin the journey towards love, serenity, wealth, happiness, and well-being.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469747101
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In You Can Also Be Rich, author Ion Varanita offers seventy principles, observed in some of the richest people in the world, that serve as the keys to happiness, success, and wealth. He describes how you can find the path to a better lifethe life of your dreamsif you follow these principles. From Principle #1, Be grateful for everything that the universe has created for you and thank God for everything that you have, to Principle #70, Follow your dreams, he captures the essence of what it takes to live a successful, happy, and fulfilling life in todays ever-changing world. Varanita has dedicated his life to searching for this dream and to securing success and happiness for his family; because of his perseverance and relentless searching, he has discovered it. He now lives the life of his dreams, following these seventy principles. You Can Also Be Rich can help anyone escape the darkness of poverty and despair and begin the journey towards love, serenity, wealth, happiness, and well-being.
Danger: Truth at Work
Author: Osho
Publisher: Osho Media International
ISBN: 0880507640
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Danger: Truth at Work goes to the heart of our most fundamental human issues. Why can’t we just live happily and be content? While we seem to have all the knowledge we need to solve our problems, we haven't. In this timely book, Osho explains that religious conditioning has held us back. Each chapter covers a different aspect of this conditioning, and, in gentle but persuasive language, shows readers how to transcend it. Individual chapters cover such subjects as The Nuclear Family: The Imminent Meltdown; Pseudo-Religion: The Stick-on Soul; They Say Believe, I Say Explore; and Ecstasy Is Now: Why Wait? and others. The enclosed DVD gives a firsthand experience of the process of spiritual renewal, which Osho calls a "dry cleaning of the mind." While Osho passed away in 1990, he left a rich legacy of video recordings that form the basis of this important book and video.
Publisher: Osho Media International
ISBN: 0880507640
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Danger: Truth at Work goes to the heart of our most fundamental human issues. Why can’t we just live happily and be content? While we seem to have all the knowledge we need to solve our problems, we haven't. In this timely book, Osho explains that religious conditioning has held us back. Each chapter covers a different aspect of this conditioning, and, in gentle but persuasive language, shows readers how to transcend it. Individual chapters cover such subjects as The Nuclear Family: The Imminent Meltdown; Pseudo-Religion: The Stick-on Soul; They Say Believe, I Say Explore; and Ecstasy Is Now: Why Wait? and others. The enclosed DVD gives a firsthand experience of the process of spiritual renewal, which Osho calls a "dry cleaning of the mind." While Osho passed away in 1990, he left a rich legacy of video recordings that form the basis of this important book and video.
American Lumberman
Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin
Author: Wisconsin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 1622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 1622
Book Description
Kathy Little Bird
Author: Benedict Freedman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101651083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
All of her life, Kathy Little Bird has heard stories of her grandmother, Mrs. Mike, from her own mother, a Cree Indian nurse who married a wounded Austrian soldier during the waning years of World War II. Living with her mother and stepfather on the plains of St. Alban, Kathy takes the tradition of Cree music to heart—“singing” the wilderness and the people she knows so well. But Kathy longs for freedom from her sheltered life and takes her first chance to get away, marrying a charming con artist who promises her the world—and leaving behind her childhood sweetheart. Staying in seedy hotels and singing in run-down clubs, she slowly finds the fame she craves. But screaming fans and hit songs cannot fill the hole within her heart—the aching need she has for the native people she left behind, the father she never knew, and a love that will calm her restless soul. Brimming with hardship, hope, the struggles of the heart, and the turbulence of a world on the brink of change, this new novel is the moving story of one woman’s attempt to make her mark on the world—without losing herself. “This is a book the reader will be unable to put down until the last page is read.”—Library Journal “Mrs. Mike is an unforgettable story, not only because it portrays the deep abiding affection between a man and a woman, but because it pictures the austere beauty of a country where life is at once simple and free, yet complicated by danger and hardship.”—Boston Herald
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101651083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
All of her life, Kathy Little Bird has heard stories of her grandmother, Mrs. Mike, from her own mother, a Cree Indian nurse who married a wounded Austrian soldier during the waning years of World War II. Living with her mother and stepfather on the plains of St. Alban, Kathy takes the tradition of Cree music to heart—“singing” the wilderness and the people she knows so well. But Kathy longs for freedom from her sheltered life and takes her first chance to get away, marrying a charming con artist who promises her the world—and leaving behind her childhood sweetheart. Staying in seedy hotels and singing in run-down clubs, she slowly finds the fame she craves. But screaming fans and hit songs cannot fill the hole within her heart—the aching need she has for the native people she left behind, the father she never knew, and a love that will calm her restless soul. Brimming with hardship, hope, the struggles of the heart, and the turbulence of a world on the brink of change, this new novel is the moving story of one woman’s attempt to make her mark on the world—without losing herself. “This is a book the reader will be unable to put down until the last page is read.”—Library Journal “Mrs. Mike is an unforgettable story, not only because it portrays the deep abiding affection between a man and a woman, but because it pictures the austere beauty of a country where life is at once simple and free, yet complicated by danger and hardship.”—Boston Herald
Casino
Author: Barry Tighe
Publisher: Barry Tighe
ISBN: 0955488923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher: Barry Tighe
ISBN: 0955488923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description