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17 Cents and
a Dream: My
Incredible Journey
from USSR to Living
the American Dream
By Daniel Milstein
By Darrell West
Daniel Milstein had a rough start
in life, but was able to transform his
bad luck into a successful career as a
top loan officer and is now the CEO
of Gold Star Mortgage Financial
Group. He used lessons he learned as
a young boy emigrating from Kiev to
America with his family. In 17 Cents
and a Dream: My Incredible Journey
from USSR to Living the American
Dream by Daniel Milstein, Daniel
Milstein recalls his rise to the top
of his profession, a journey fraught
with hard work and dedication. The
Milstein family finally settled in
Ann Arbor, Michigan. Times were
rough, and as a teenager he worked
at McDonald���s to support his family.
He used his work ethic to sell
millions in real estate yearly and is
quickly becoming a thought leader in
the housing industry. Milstein���s tale
is relatable to many of Americans
who have had to pull themselves up
from the boot straps to create the
life they���ve always wanted. Milstein
is also the author of ���The ABC of
Sales.���
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The Next Wave:
Using Digital
Technology to Further
Social and Political
Innovation
Technology will bring the
country out of economic ruin and
into prosperity, according to The Next
Wave: Using Digital Technology to
Further Social and Political Innovation
by Darrell West. In this book,
West explores the concept that
futurologist Alvin Toffler offered in
his 1980 tome The Third Wave, which
proposed there are periodic bursts
of intense radical change when each
new emerging society supplants its
predecessor, marking the latest burst
of technology���think Internet and
personal computers���as the third
wave. West argues technology is so
pervasive now that society is on the
cusp of a new wave���a wave that
will be a key catalyst in restoring
the country as a society, especially
economically.
West describes how technology
has transformed healthcare, trade,
even politics. West places great faith
in technology���s ability to improve
organizations��� abilities to function
through well-crafted rhetoric and use
of example.
Global Housing
Markets: Crises,
Policies, and
Institutions
BoomBustology:
Spotting Financial
Bubbles Before They
Burst
By Ashok Bardhan, Robert
Edelstein, and Cynthia Kroll
By Vikram Mansharamani
The housing market bubble
began to burst in 2007 and has
had ripple effects across the world.
Policies were put in place to stop
the hemorrhaging housing market,
but it was too late; the damage
had been done. Now, as the U.S.
economy rebounds, some attention
is being directed to the international
community and how to fix the
economies that suffered as a result of
the crisis.
Global Housing Markets: Crises,
Policies, and Institutions edited by
Ashok Bardhan, Robert Edelstein,
and Cynthia Kroll takes a critical
stance on the global crisis with
emphasis on the housing sector in
addition to the financial sector of
individual economies. The book also
focuses on how the housing crisis
is the core of the meltdown; the
evolution of housing markets and
policies in the run-up to the crisis,
their impacts, and the responses;
and compares experiences across
countries.
In the book, BoomBustology
Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They
Burst by Vikram Mansharamani,
the author expands his popular Yale
University undergraduate seminar
���Financial Booms and Busts��� into
a multi-disciplinary discussion for
identifying unsustainable, crisisinducing market activity. The
magnitude of the financial crisis
inspired many thought leaders to
examine the DNA of the crisis to
prevent another from occurring.
Mansharamani examines why
booms and busts are not random and
can therefore be identified, and he
focuses on various theoretical and
disciplinary lenses useful in the study
of booms and busts. He outlines a
framework for thinking about and
identifying forthcoming financial
bubbles, including several obvious
indicators of a potential bust, and he
illustrates the framework in action by
evaluating modern-day China as a
potential bubble in the making.
