Uncommon Wealth

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding A Guardian Book of the Year 'Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights' Akala 'A radical, beautifully written understanding of our history' Owen Jones 'You can't understand how Britain works today without reading it' Frankie Boyle 'A challenge to a nation living in the shadow of empire: reckon with your imperial past, or it will come back to bite you' Grace Blakeley 'This book should be part of the national curriculum' Ellie Mae O'Hagan Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it. Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe, profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. However, the greed unleashed in this era would boomerang, now leaving many ordinary Britons wondering where their own prosperity has gone. Ranging from Jamaica to Singapore, Ghana to Britain, this is a blistering account of how buried decisions of decades past are ravaging Britain today.

Globalization. Outsourcing. Downsizing. Reduced Pensions. Debt. There's no doubt the worlds of employment and finance are changing dramatically. More than ever, it is up to you to plan and manage your financial security. This straight-talking guide reviews life's stages, from infancy to retirement, and how your attitudes toward saving, working, and investing are formed. If you have positioned yourself from young adulthood for an envisioned future, you can likely handle any curveball life may throw at you. Unfortunately, statistics show many people are poorly positioned for retirement. Begin now to reverse or prevent this trend. Using the concept of maintaining a margin of safety, you can protect yourself from the unexpected. By applying this concept to your career and finances, you can develop a set of relevant skills and diversify your investments. A Common Sense Road Map to Uncommon Wealth will help you anticipate and respond to trends and changes. It's perfect to bring generations together-if you're nearing retirement, share this with your children. If you're just launching your career, learn these lessons carefully as you move forward in life.

At the intersection of financial planning and the pursuit of your entrepreneurial dreams, Uncommon Wealth offers a clear set of tactics to help anyone in any stage of life begin building residual income through a customized, whole-life financial plan. With small tweaks in mindset and lessons in how best to invest in your God-given gifts, learn how to achieve "Time Freedom" long before the traditional retirement age and build wealth through multiple avenues. Utilizing our proprietary One-Page Financial Dashboard, learn how to set goals to achieve results and organize your capital to bet on yourself. Achieving Uncommon Wealth means beginning your financial strategy by identifying your greatest dreams and starting now, a useful and timely lesson for entrepreneurs, investors, and everyone in between.

“There are so many women breaking through glass ceilings right now, and I love that this book teaches us how to do that without fear!” —Santia Deck, founder of Tronus Footwear Have you ever thought that wealth means more than monetary gains? Do you think happiness can stem from more than just money? Are you ready to redefine wealth? Then this is the book for you. Filled with stories from women who have contributed to the new definition of wealth and have helped others find a more abundant life, Women Gone Wild: Wealth gives you the raw, unfiltered truth of what wealth really is. These healers, mothers, and thought leaders have freed themselves from the perceived value of money and the stereotyped role of a woman. They have learned to live their life and grow their businesses on their own terms. What you’ll learn within these pages is how to strengthen your non-monetary assets and gains to create more wealth in your life. Maximize yourself as a brand Uplifting ideas of women empowerment Passion lending to purposeful work The hidden wealth within holistic health Wild ways of connecting with others It’s our time as women to live financially free—fearlessly. We are being called to awaken our consciousness, consider our impact, and reconnect to ourselves and each other. Join these authors to learn how to run wild in the world and create the golden life you’ve always wanted. “I’m excited to see more women stepping into their power as investors and entrepreneurs. This book will help open the doors for more women to believe they can do it too.” —Kevin Harrington, the Original Shark from Shark Tank

The season that we are embarking on will stir you to see the power of God move in an Uncommon Way. This book will give you an accurate picture of how the Lord wants to move in your life. God is going to give you the grace to do uncommon things for the glory of Him. From Uncommon Faith to Uncommon Miracles, a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit is getting ready to move in your life. Get ready for crazy encounters with God that will cause you to walk powerfully and profoundly in this season of “Uncommon.”

This old secret manuscript, translated from the French, contains timeless truths about the way money works, to start making your money work for you. The author of this story uses the pseudonym "Victor D'Argent." He is believed to have become the head of one of the largest Parisian publishing houses, and to have assisted the careers of Gustave Flaubert, the celebrated author of Madame Bovary, and Victor Hugo, who became internationally famous for writing "Les Miserables." D'Argent himself eventually became something of a recluse, widely sought for financial, artistic, and personal advice, but quite careful about revealing his secrets. Just a few days before his death, he delivered this story to a small, provincial publisher who printed only a few copies, unaware of the true identity of the author.

The essays collected in Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction “follow the money” to illuminate literature’s keen awareness of the multiple and often conflicting meanings of wealth and commons in formerly colonized spaces.

In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography, demography, and culture. Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others on the left, Sowell draws on accurate empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe. Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time.