It may be time to unbank yourself. Your money is not keeping up with inflation, and Fed policy is making it worth less and less. If you believe this to be true, then you need to know how to protect yourself from the largest devaluation the world has ever seen, where trillions of dollars will become worth far less or even worthless as the dollar continues to lose its dominance as the reserve currency of the world. Alex Mashinsky explains the problem and the solution to our economic and financial problem, in simplest terms: our inability to balance the nation check book and relying on cheap borrowed money to live beyond our means will be our downfall. The party was good as long as the rest of the world needed dollars and relied on them to run the world economy, but things are changing, and we will need to change as well. His 7-step method teaches anyone how to protect your assets and how to create compounding yield which makes your money work for you instead of you working for your money. His world view is that money is a confidence game and overnight when the confidence is gone, no one will want to accept money backed only by the U.S. government’s ability to tax us in the future. Unbank Yourself pits heterdoxical Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Keynesian economics against the views of frugality, stable money, and Austrian economics. It asks two questions: Has the financial pendulum swung too far? Have we lived beyond our means as a society, and what as individuals should be do about it? The Mashinsky Method suggests a road less travel – until now. He encourages investors to save in a new way—using stablecoins and other crypto such as bitcoin. He suggests you do not need to put all your money into this plan, but just enough so that you have a protection plan long-term. New and emerging asset classes can protect us and. at the same time provide yield and insurance that you cannot get exposure to via traditional stock/bond portfolios.

This book features selected articles based on contributions presented at the 9th International Symposium on Optics and Its Applications (OPTICS-2022) in Yerevan-Ashtarak, Armenia. The annual OPTICS symposium brings together renowned experts from all over the world working in the fields of atomic optics, plasmonics, optics of nanostructures, as well as the optics of condensed matter, and provides a perfect setting for their discussions of the most recent developments in this area. The 9th iteration in this series, dedicated to the 80th birthday of Academician Eduard Kazaryan, focuses on topics dealing with the spectroscopy of real and artificial atoms, linear and nonlinear optical characteristics of quantum wells, and two-dimensional materials. The book highlights recent results of few-particle optical characteristics of artificial atoms in the framework of the exactly solvable Moshinsky model, as well as an electro-optical analog of the magneto-optical Faraday effect. In addition, a detailed study of the nucleation process, its characterization, as well as electronic and optical properties of graded composition quantum dots in the Stranski−Krastanov growth mode, is presented.

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The “rollicking” (The Economist), “masterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars—hailed by Ezra Klein in The New York Times as one of the “Books That Explain Where We Are” FINALIST: the Edgar Award (Fact Crime), the Macavity Award (Nonfiction), the Porchlight Business Book Award • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times DealBook, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, Irish Examiner, Morningstar, The Verge, Wired In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked—but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named “digital asset”? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence game of epic proportions? What started as curiosity—with a dash of FOMO—would morph into a two-year, globe-spanning quest to understand the wizards behind the world’s new financial machinery. Faux’s investigation would lead him to a schlubby, frizzy-haired twenty-nine-year-old named Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF for short) and a host of other crypto scammers, utopians, and overnight billionaires. Faux follows the trail to a luxury resort in the Bahamas, where SBF boldly declares that he will use his crypto fortune to save the world. Faux talks his way onto the yacht of a former child actor turned crypto impresario and gains access to “ApeFest,” an elite party headlined by Snoop Dogg, by purchasing a $20,000 image of a cartoon monkey. In El Salvador, Faux learns what happens when a country wagers its treasury on Bitcoin, and in the Philippines, he stumbles upon a Pokémon knockoff mobile game touted by boosters as a cure for poverty. And in an astonishing development, a spam text leads Faux to Cambodia, where he uncovers a crypto-powered human-trafficking ring. When the bubble suddenly bursts in 2022, Faux brings readers inside SBF’s penthouse as the fallen crypto king faces his imminent arrest. Fueled by the absurd details and authoritative reporting that earned Zeke Faux the accolade “our great poet of crime” (Money Stuff columnist Matt Levine), Number Go Up is the essential chronicle, by turns harrowing and uproarious, of a $3 trillion financial delusion.