Tag: Outcasts

The Trolls of Wall Street How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets [Audiobook]


Free Download The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09M2Y7LD3 | 2024 | 10 hours and 37 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Nathaniel Popper
Narrator: Robert Fass

The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed "degenerates" who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upending the global financial markets and changing how an entire generation thinks about money, investing, and themselves. Jaime Rogozinski and Jordan Zazzara were not what anyone would mistake for traditional financial power players. But they turned WallStreetBets, a subreddit focused on risky financial trading, into one of the most disruptive forces to bubble up from the fringes of the internet.

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Medical Outcasts Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants’ Emergency Health Care


Free Download Roxane Richter, "Medical Outcasts: Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants’ Emergency Health Care"
English | ISBN: 149852544X | 2015 | 232 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
As witnessed through the firsthand experiences of a frontline activist and international medical aid practitioner, this biosocial political study gives voice to the inequities in undocumented Mexican and Zimbabwean women’s emergency healthcare access and treatment in Houston, United States of America, and Johannesburg, South Africa. As a construct of feminist transdisciplinary fieldwork, this research utilizes methodological pluralism and biosocial disparities to examine constructs of "social determinants" or "social origins" of women’s suffering, disease, and healthcare access. These variables include gender inequity, xenophobia, structural violence, political economy subjugation, healthcare access and delivery disparities, and human rights violations.

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