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The bestselling author of The Death of Money on how investors can prepare for the next financial panic - and why it's coming sooner than you think. The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial. Central banks have propped up markets by keeping interest rates low and the supply of money free-flowing. They won't bail us out again next time. And there will be a next time - soon. In The Road to Ruin, bestselling author James Rickards identifies how governments around the world are secretly preparing an alternative strategy for the next big crisis: a lockdown. Instead of printing money to reliquify markets and prop up assets, governments are preparing to close banks, shut down exchanges and order powerful asset managers not to sell. They're putting provisions in place that will allow them to do so legally. What's more, the global elite has already started making their own preparations, including hoarding cash and hard assets. When the next one comes, it will be the average investor who suffers most - unless he or she heeds Rickards' warning and prepares accordingly. James Rickards is the bestselling author of Currency Wars and The Death of Money. He is a portfolio manager at West Shore Group and an adviser on international economics and financial threats to the Department of Defence and the US intelligence community. He served as facilitator of the first-ever financial war games conducted by the Pentagon.

Our world order is under pressure as never before. From new authoritarian regimes in the US, Turkey and Russia, to the imminent break-up of the European Union and a social media awash with intolerance, things look set to fall apart just as abruptly as the Soviet Union did some thirty years ago. How did we get here, and what do we do now?In this searching new exploration of our crisis, Paul Mason argues that at its heart lies an attack on the idea of humanity itself. As the free-market system reduced us to two-dimensional consumers, genetics has stripped us of our belief in humans as agents of change. And now the dystopian forces of the authoritarian right are pushing the world towards a pre-modern understanding of the human being: one that aims to destroy the very concept of universal human rights, and create a new world in which we are biologically destined to form hierarchies based on ethnicity and gender, and to obey the demands of religious conformity.If these forces are not stopped, Mason warns, we will relive something even worse than the 1930s. In response, he demands a radical defence of the human being: a reinvention of humanism; a re-assertion of the universality of human rights; and a struggle for a society where biologically determined hierarchies are abolished. We have the power to imagine and design a better system. We must, Mason concludes, reach deep into the history and experience of resistance in order to be our own saviours.

"¿El Final de la Crisis?" es el último libro que el economista Álvaro Lodares ha lanzado a la imprenta. Se trata de una recopilación de los artículos publicados por el autor que ofrecen una visión en tiempo real del devenir politico, social y economico español e internacional, enmarcados en una vision que trasciende lo cotidiano para constituir un todo analitico solido y coherente. Se abordan las grandes cuestiones de la agenda española y global con una mezcla casi perfecta de rigor y capacidad divulgativa. De este modo, el texto lodariano es atractivo tanto para el publico general como para los expertos de la ciencia lugubre. Esto es de agradecer en un entorno en el que la oscuridad se ha convertido en un sinonimo de sabiduria economica; en una aplicacion del axioma de Eugenio DOrs: "Demasiado claro, oscurezcamoslo".

La ilusión de la tecnoutopía que despiertan las nuevas formas de comunicación nos ha llevado a una falsa era de libertad digital, en la que las grandes plataformas de contenidos se han convertido en las autenticas vertebradoras de la informacion y en la que los algoritmos secretos moldean la vida de la sociedad y de las personas, con la posibilidad de generar burbujas ideologicas radicales o poco democraticas. La consecuencia inmediata es que hoy son mas vulnerables las empresas, las instituciones y los ciudadanos.La batalla frente al lobby tecnologico o al poderoso sector financiero essiempre lo ha sidolimitada y desigual; sin embargo, tienen un flanco enormemente vulnerable: su reputacion. La posibilidad de valorar a empresas, instituciones u organizaciones, y la incidencia que dicha valoracion tiene sobre su reputacion, nos otorga un nuevo e importante poder de influencia para reconfigurar el mundo. El capital reputacional es hoy esencial para cualquier personalidad, politico, empresario o celebrity, al tiempo que ofrece al ciudadano una herramienta valiosa de presion.En esta nueva Republica de la reputacion, hiperconectada y emocional, debemos interpretar esta cartografia fisica y social para, a traves de las historias y las nuevas narrativas corporativas, aprender a cuidar nuestra reputacion como un activo que no conviene menospreciar.