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Side Hustle Ideas Anywhere Anytime to Earn More Extra Money
Have you ever heard of that regular Joe or Jane paying off all their student debt or a single mom who raised her three kids from her job as a freelancer? Yes, it’s definitely possible to make a living through simple means that can be done anywhere at any time. Earning extra money these days …
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How to Check and Improve Your Credit Score?
If you’ve never checked your credit score before don’t feel too bad. In fact, studies believe that one in eight Americans are entirely unaware of their credit score. That’s millions of people who have no idea just what’s going on with their financial lives. But we’re going to help you figure out how to check …
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Book Summary: Applied Economics – Thinking Beyond Stage One by Thomas Sowell
This excellent, short, clear book should be part of everyone’s reference library, particularly those who wish to understand standard conservative economic thought. The distinctions author Thomas Sowell draws between political and economic logic should become a valuable part of each voter’s mental apparatus. Writing to educate the general reader, not to further instruct the sophisticated …
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Book Summary: Animal Spirits – How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
Nobel laureate George A. Akerlof and prescient Yale economics professor Robert J. Shiller explain the role of human psychology in markets. They say conventional economic theory assigns too much weight to the role of reason in economic decision making, and too little to the role of irrational emotional and psychological factors. That insight would have …
Book Summary: Africa Rising – How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think by Vijay Mahajan
“We know everything about how Africans die, but we know little about how Africans live,” said Swedish author and self-proclaimed African-at-heart, Henning Mankell. This is a book about Africa, but its protagonists are not disease-ridden men and women, starving children or raging warlords. Vijay Mahajan paints a picture of a continent overflowing with an entrepreneurial …