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The HBCU Money™ Business Book Feature – Currencies After the Crash: The Uncertain Future of the Global Paper-Based System

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From the game-changing consequences of the U.S. dollar replacing the British sterling as the world’s reserve currency to the beginning and end of the Bretton Woods Agreement–exchange rate policy drastically changes the way we do business, consume goods and services, and create wealth. The global financial system is once again on the cusp of change, affected by the European debt crisis, the rebalancing of the Chinese economy, and the Federal Reserve’s controversial policy of quantitative easing, to name a few. To help investors in all walks of life understand and adapt to the changes ahead, Bloomberg Television’s Sara Eisen presents Currencies After the Crash.

In this insightful and timely book, Eisen brings together the world’s leading minds in the foreign exchange market. These brand-new, never-before-published essays from renowned academics and sought-after practitioners delve into the global financial system’s instability, potential solutions and surrounding controversies, and how specific changes will affect your future wealth. This complete resource gives you all the fundamental background needed to understand the more complex issues that follow, including:

  • Will the U.S. dollar lose its precious reserve currency status?
  • How have central bank policies affected the world’s major currencies?
  • How does China’s control over its currency affect the world?
  • What are the benefits and dangers of a shared currency like the euro?
  • How has the U.S. dollar’s prominence declined since the financial crisis?
  • What is the responsibility of global groups like the International Monetary Fund and G-20 in foreign exchange?
  • What role, if any, should gold play in the international monetary system?

 

Start adapting your investing strategies today based on tomorrow’s fiscal changes with Currencies After the Crash.

About the Author

Sara Eisen is a correspondent for Bloomberg Television. She appears on Bloomberg Surveillance, Bloomberg’s TV program that begins the day’s conversation on business, economics, finance, and investment. She also can be seen daily on Bloomberg TV’s Lunch Money mid-day program. Based in New York City, Eisen specializes in covering global macroeconomics, with a focus on foreign exchange and fixed income markets. She has extensively covered the European debt crisis, interviewing top political leaders and finance ministers from Germany to Greece; she also frequently moderates panels on international economics.

HBCU Money™ Business Book Feature – The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.

Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that’s never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech’s other elite innovators–Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg–Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing.

THE EVERYTHING STORE will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.

HBCU Money™ Business Book Feature – Bloomberg Visual Guide to Municipal Bonds

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A hands-on visual guide to understanding and investing in an important and consistently safe investment vehicleBloomberg Visual Guide to Municipal Bonds offers step-by-step guidance to the nature and diversity of municipal securities credit structures. This valuable guide demonstrates the dependability of the overwhelming majority of municipal securities, and points out particular market sectors that may yield greater rewards, but also present greater risks.This book also directs readers to good sources of up-to-date information as well as new market tools, byproducts of recent market enhancements, so as to assist you in making informed investment decisions.

  • Filled with reliable and highly accessible information needed for making sound decisions when investing in municipal securities
  • Author Robert Doty is a noted expert on municipal securities
  • A valuable addition to the new Bloomberg Visual Series

Engaging and informative, this reliable resource is an easy-to-use “how to” guide to municipal securities that will help you create more effective investment strategies.

HBCU Money™ Business Book Feature – Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South

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The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution’s most human dimension: birth. We often don’t realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage.

In the antebellum South, slaveholders’ interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter. In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infertility, and resolve gynecological problems, including cancer.

Black women, however, proved an unruly force, distrustful of both the slaveholders and their doctors. With their own healing traditions, emphasizing the power of roots and herbs and the critical roles of family and community, enslaved women struggled to take charge of their own health in a system that did not respect their social circumstances, customs, or values. Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers–in very different ways and for entirely different reasons.

Birthing a Slave is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.

HBCU Money™ B-School: Johannesburg Stock Exchange Presents The Stock Market For Beginners

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Johannesburg Stock Exchange provides online education for those who want to get a fundamental education needed to engage in the stock market. This presentation gives a basic overview of terms and other explanations that the beginning swimmer should have before jumping in the proverbial ocean of investing. For all of JSE’s online courses please visit http://www.jse.co.za or check back in with HBCU Money as we will continue to post links to them. Click on the picture above to launch the presentation.