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The Citizens' Ledger Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Finance

The Citizens' Ledger Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Finance
The Citizens' Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Finance by Robert C. Hockett
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 211 Pages | ISBN : 3030995658 | 5.6 MB
This book is the first of its kind in several overlapping and rapidly developing fields that now dominate news headlines - among them the fields of crypto-currency, digital payments platforms, 'fintech,' and central bank digital currencies ('CBDCs'). With crypto and fintech now threatening to transform finance in destabilizing and anti-democratic ways, and with China and other nations now digitizing their national currencies in the form of CBDCs that make the US dollar and national payments infrastructure look ever more quaint and outmoded, this book shows both why the US and other democratic commercial societies must, and how they can, democratically digitize their currencies, their national payments systems, and the authorities that respectively issue and administer them - in the US, the Federal Reserve System ('the Fed').

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The Cannabis Social Club

The Cannabis Social Club
The Cannabis Social Club
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367519062 | 263 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
As cannabis legalization reforms are underway, there is some concern that non-profit, 'middle ground' options may remain under-researched and thus less visible. This book offers an in-depth account of one of the possible 'middle ground' models for the supply of cannabis: the Cannabis Social Club.

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The Brightest Star

The Brightest Star
The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt
English | July 6, 2022 | ISBN: 1489249168 | True EPUB | 359 pages | 0.99 MB
A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the intellectual maelstrom, political complexities and religious extremism of Renaissance Florence. This beautifully crafted novel will appeal to readers of Karen Brooks' The Good Wife of Bath and Pip Williams' Dictionary of Lost Words.

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The Bridge at No Gun Ri A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War

The Bridge at No Gun Ri A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War
The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War by Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza, Sang-hun Choe
English | September 6, 2001 | ISBN: 0805066586, 0805071830, ASIN: B00S52XQ4C | True EPUB/AZW3 | 336 pages | 1.2/0.8 MB
The untold human story of a massacre of Korean civilians by American soldiers in the early days of the Korean War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who uncovered it