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“I’m really good at what I do, yet no-one other than my direct boss knows how good I am. I over-rely on my technical expertise, which I increasingly realise is not enough. I hate going to functions and don’t want to be seen as the schmoozer. I know I’m better than this, yet my career, position or salary isn’t reflecting it.” If this sounds familiar, then YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE. I look forward to sharing some of the insights I’ve gained over the past 20 years, training and speaking to people all over the world about how to increase their business networks.

Drawing from decades of experience and a biblical worldview, the Templetons demonstrate that true prosperity isn't just about money—it's about creating a legacy of purpose, peace, and contentment that spans generations.

Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. Yet the conventional wisdom about inflation is stuck in the past. Since the 1970s, there has only really been one playbook for fighting inflation: raise interest rates, thereby creating unemployment and a recession, which will lower prices. But this simple story hides a multitude of beliefs about why prices go up and how policymakers can wrestle them back down, beliefs that are often wrong, damaging, and have little empirical basis.

Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. What brought him to economics were his concerns about the inequality and discrimination he saw growing up. Wanting to understand what drives it and what can be done about it has been his lifelong passion. This book gathers together and extends to new frontiers this lifelong work, drawing upon the challenges and insights of each of these phases of his career.

Balancing the federal budget is critical for long-term economic stability. It requires a multi-faceted approach encompassing efficiency improvements, revenue reforms, spending adjustments, and economic growth strategies. First, reducing inefficiencies through fraud prevention, administrative streamlining, and eliminating redundancies can save billions while maintaining essential services. Reforming tax expenditures, such as capping deductions or targeting tax breaks for the wealthy, generates significant revenue while promoting fairness.

As the year turns, four women give birth. Four Mothers follows these women over the next twelve months, through their first year of parenting. Each finds wonder and delight in her baby, but each also struggles with the realities of motherhood, personal relationships bumping up against social challenges. Through immersive storytelling and deep reporting, Abigail Leonard brings to life the policies that shape the experiences of both parents and children: access to healthcare and parental leave, community and workplace support. Both intimate and international, we see what is and what could be.

In Exile Economics, Ben Chu lays out the dangers of the current obsession with isolationism. By focusing on some key internationally traded commodities - agriculture, energy, metals and high-technology - he demonstrates just how thoroughly enmeshed and almost unfathomably interconnected our economies have become. Exile Economics will be an essential guide to this new world in all its promise and peril.