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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Want to get rich overnight for free in 3 easy steps with no risk? Then don?t buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there?s a book that can do that, you shouldn?t buy any books because you probably can?t read.) P.J.?s approach to business, investment, and finance is different. He takes the risks for you in his chapter “How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other.” He proposes “A Way to Raise Taxes That We?ll All Love”?a...
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Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
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Series
Wicked little secrets volume 2
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Handsome, silver-tongued politician Lord Randall doesn't get along with his bank partner, the financially brilliant but hopelessly frumpish Isabella St. Vincent. Ever since she was his childhood nemesis, he's tried--and failed--to get the better of her. When both Fandall's political career and their mutual bank interests are threatened by scandal, he has to admit he needs Isabella's help. They set off on a madcap scheme to set matters right. With...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Johnson and Kwak examine not only how Wall Street's ideology, wealth, and political power among policy makers in Washington led to the financial debacle of 2008, but also what the lessons learned portend for the future.
Publisher
Laguna Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Capulina trabaja como barrendero de un banco, pero él sueña con ser policía. Sin querer, Capulina impide un asalto y secuestro en el banco y por su gran hazaña, es gratificado por los dueños nombrándolo policía permanente del banco."--Container.
Publisher
ClassicFlix
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Sam Wagner's job is never easy. Even an average day proves stressful for him and his family. But this is no ordinary day for Wagner or his wife Lila. After pegging a recent bank robbery as an inside job orchestrated by mild-mannered clerk Leon Poole, Wagner heads to the suspect2s apartment to make the arrest expecting him to be alone. Instead, Poole2s beloved wife is with him and caught in the crossfire of a shootout leaving her dead.
10) Blockchain revolution: how the technology behind bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world
Author
Publisher
Portfolio / Penguin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm
Description
The Internet as we know it is great for collaboration and communication, but is deeply flawed when it comes to commerce and privacy. The new blockchain technology facilitates peer-to-peer transactions without any intermediary such as a bank or governing body. Keeping the user's information anonymous, the blockchain validates and keeps a permanent public record of all transactions. That means that your personal information is private and secure, while...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxii, 182 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The New Depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Most fired employees will remain redundant. Bankruptcies will be common, and banks will buckle under the weight of bad debts. Deflation, debt, and demography will wreck any chance of recovery, and social disorder will follow closely on the heels of market chaos. The happy talk from Wall Street...
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction, an unscrupulous white banker in Minnesota is blackmailed by his boss into sabotaging the creation of a competing, Native American-owned bank. As the banker befriends the people he's trying to frame, he struggles to escape from his past and do the right thing"--
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"In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Spain is on the brink of economic collapse and European banks demand that any bailout be linked to harsh domestic changes. An alliance of Islamic bankers counters with a rescue package containing no conditions at all. The underlying goal: to break the unity of Europe and put Madrid on the path back to Islamic rule. When the United States stridently opposes that deal, terrorists storm the American consulate in Barcelona and slaughter an entire six-man...
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (6 hrs., 5 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young economics reporter Bea has a secret affair with Peder, a married bank CEO. Although she promised herself not to mix her job with her private life, Bea has fallen in love and can't bring herself to break up with him. Then, Bea gets a tip that Peder's bank is hiding something
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
Chronicles the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that created the Federal Reserve, tracing the financial panic and widespread distrust of bankers that prompted the landmark 1913 Federal Reserve Act and launched America's first steps onto the world financial stage.
18) End the Fed
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Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
212 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
The author draws on American history, economics and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Federal Reserve is both corrupt and unconstitutional, inflating currency and threatening to put us into an inflationary depression. He also tells us where we went wrong and what we need to do fix America's economic policy for future generations.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
404 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Shares an exposé of the relationship between the oil and banking industries while arguing that such environmental disasters as the Gulf oil spill and Exxon Valdez can be directly linked to corporate corruption and failed legislation.
20) American kleptocracy: how the U.S. created the world's greatest money laundering scheme in history
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"For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn't been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditionalfinancial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama, that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most...
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