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UNINA9910958083803321 |
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McGuire Shayne <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Buy gold now : how a real estate bust, our bulging national debt, and the languishing dollar will push gold to record highs / / Shayne McGuire |
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Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2008 |
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9786611217556 |
9781281217554 |
1281217557 |
9780470268001 |
047026800X |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Gold |
Investments - United States |
Monetary policy - United States |
Balance of payments - United States |
United States Economic conditions 2001-2009 |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-215) and index. |
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Our debt: American financial risk has never been higher -- The 65-trillion-dollar wind blowing from our futures -- How can families really be getting richer by borrowing more? -- Why the world continues lending (most of its savings) to us -- Relying on foreigners: our economic future may be out of our hands -- Our homes: the epicenter of American economic risk -- Real estate, this decade's economic driver, could drive us into recession -- The negative amortization mortgage loan is born -- Tighter lending standards and no help from the fed -- The great American equity cash-out is coming to an end -- Financial culture shock: real estate investment can have a negative return -- Our economy: the longest economic boom ever is probably ending -- Balance sheet recession: we could be heading in a Japanese direction -- Smiling on the lawnmower: affluent poverty -- When the fed cuts rates again, will the dollar finally collapse? -- The case for |
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owning gold -- Why the time is right for gold to skyrocket -- Stocks and bonds offer little compensation for risk today -- Gold's scarcity: new sources of demand and falling supply -- How to buy gold -- When you simply want financial insurance -- Mining stocks, ETFs and goldmoney -- Rare coins: a bet on the highest possible gains in gold -- Why silver might outperform gold -- Conclusion: don't be a gold bug: sell when it is time to sell. |
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Masterfully researched, and written in a straightforward style, Buy Gold Now makes a case for buying gold as protection against the rising risks of an unprecedented global currency crisis and as a profitable investment vehicle. Divided into five comprehensive parts, this reliable resource examines our country's current financial situation from a historical perspective and addresses some of the alarming issues that many economists are currently pointing to with concern. |
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UNINA9910861957203321 |
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Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece / Maria G. Spathi |
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[s.l.] : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , 2024 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Social Science / Archaeology |
History / Ancient / Greece |
Social sciences |
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<p><em>Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece </em>is the outcome of the conference held in Athens in June 2021 and hosted by the Swedish Institute at Athens.< |
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/p><p><br></p><p>The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Fear of such malevolent powers generated the need for protection and we find clear traces of these concerns in both textual and archaeological sources. From the beginnings of literature, there is mention of ghosts and other daemonic beings that needed appeasement, and of ways of repulsing evil, such as the use of baskania and antibaskania (apotropaia). Repeatedly, we meet rituals of an apotropaic or prophylactic character conducted as part of everyday and family life, as for example on the occasion of a birth, marriage or death in the oikos (the cleansing of the house and household, libations and sacrifices in honour of oikos ancestors), and other practices that focused on the protection of the community as a whole, i.e. the Pharmakos ritual. Archaeology reveals an abundance of material objects thought to have the power to attract benevolent, and avert evil, forces. Traces of ritual practices necessary to ensure prosperity and avert personal disaster are manifest today in the form of amulets, certain semi-precious stones believed to protect women and children, eye-beads found in large numbers in many archaeological assemblages, possibly various types of terracotta figurines, such as nude female grotesques and various ithyphallic characters, to name a few. In addition, symbols and certain iconographic motifs, such as the phallus, the open hand, the Gorgoneion, images of triple Hekate, and Hermes, have been subject to a number of differing interpretations relative to apotropaic power.</p> |
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