epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-13 | Author:Luis Alberto Urrea [Urrea, Luis Alberto]

The cutters know many things about a person by the nature of his tracks. They learned something about Mendez and his pollos in the days to come. Mendez always walked ...

mobi |eng | 2005-11-30 | Author:Lindsey Williams; Dr. Stanley "stan" Monteith

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Arianna Huffington

“WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?” Three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, BP finally released underwater video showing a massive column of oil gushing out ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Joseph Heath

Even when we can all agree about what the right outcome is, we often find it simply too heart-wrenching or difficult to carry out the actions necessary to bring that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-13 | Author:Bremmer, Ian & Keat, Preston [Bremmer, Ian]

A number of economic factors also affect the likelihood of expropriations. One is an overtly statist economic policy. In 1975, Great Britain expropriated the (already bankrupt) British Leyland Motor Corporation, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Niall Ferguson

5 Safe as Houses It is the English-speaking world’s favourite economic game: property. No other facet of financial life has such a hold on the popular imagination. No other asset-allocation ...

mobi |eng | 2011-09-04 | Author:Friedman, Thomas L. & Mandelbaum, Michael [Friedman, Thomas L.]

Honk If You Believe in Climate Change In February 2010, after a particularly heavy snowfall in Washington, D.C., Oklahoma Republican senator James Inhofe’s daughter, Molly Rapert, her husband, and their ...

mobi |eng | 2007-09-16 | Author:Stiglitz, Joseph E. [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

What, then, is the advantage? It avoids setting national target levels. The reason that setting target levels is so difficult is that each country’s circumstances differ. The United States might ...

mobi, epub, azw |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Paul, Ron [Paul, Ron]

We very badly need to have more Representatives in the House who understand in a principled way the importance of property rights and religious freedom for the preservation and extension ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1993-05-14 | Author:Robert S. McElvaine

In those families where there was turmoil during the Depression, the children often suffered. Fathers (and mothers) might take out their frustrations on the children. As the effects of unemployment, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Tim Harford

SCHELLING’S CHESSBOARD MODEL suggests that transformations such as Fifteenth Street’s should be impossible: Things always fall apart, people always give in to their prejudices, and small anxieties lead to big ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Even better for Arison and his family was yet another provision in the SEC public offering document that said: “The company intends to distribute dividends to all shareholders in at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Dan Senor; Saul Singer

CHAPTER 9 The Buffett Test For our customers around the world, there was no war. —EITAN WERTHEIMER WE’RE NOT HERE TO STEAL WORKERS FROM MICROSOFT,” said Google’s Yoelle Maarek. “But,” ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Lanchester, John [Lanchester, John]

FIVE THE MISTAKE And yet the financial industry could still have got away with it. All the things described up until now could have been survived, and the resulting chaos ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Arianna Huffington

“WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?” Three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, BP finally released underwater video showing a massive column of oil gushing out ...