Given my professional experiences starting a young entrepreneurial venture in my twenties, and finishing my career as the President of a multi-billion dollar e-commerce company, I felt that I could bring a disciplined, real world set of skills to focus on the issue of youth employment.

FORBES: Connect

The U.S. committed to exchange for gold dollars held by foreign central banks and Treasuries (governments) while other countries used their dollar reserves to peg (i.e. manipulate) their currencies to the dollar.

FORBES: Currency Manipulation

Since Cleis Press started selling digital books in 2008, its sales have grown 30%, and the publisher attributes 40% of its dollar volume to e-books.

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