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1) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
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The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jarred Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms the ominous suspicion; and Charles Gellar and James Shipley,...
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"As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." In this book the author offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands, and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew and burst, not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as Iceland, Germany, and Greece. Mixing humor with prescient insight, he depicts a precarious situation that demands attention. The tsunami of...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xx, 600 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Presents a moment-by-moment account of the recent financial collapse that documents state efforts to prevent an economic disaster, offering insight into the pivotal consequences of decisions made throughout the past decade.
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Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xi, 351 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast--arguing that this collapse need not have happened.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 706 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Crashed is a dramatic new narrative resting on original themes: the haphazard nature of economic development and the erratic path of debt around the world; the unseen way individual countries and regions are linked together in deeply unequal relationships through financial interdependence, investment, politics, and force; the ways the financial crisis interacted with the spectacular rise of social media, the crisis of middle-class America, the rise...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xviii, 291 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
The author of the signature bestseller Liar's Poker explains how the event we were told was impossible--the free fall of the American economy--finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.
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"Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty?and Jende is eager to please. Clark?s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
x, 225 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"From the author of the bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class, a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008-09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to 'reset,' and, in doing so, paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like--of how we will work and live--in the future"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xix, 476 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
An assessment of the U.S. financial crisis and its lessons explores its complex contributing factors while revealing some of its more devastating consequences, outlining potentially divisive solutions that may be necessary for recovery.
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 380 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
This surprising narrative goes back more than twenty years to reveal, in rich, anecdotal detail, how Wall Street, the mortgage industry, and the government conspired to change the way Americans bought their homes, creating a perfect storm. The authors take us inside elusive institutions such as Goldman Sachs, AIG, and Fannie Mae, to reveal who changed the game and why.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is the autopsy of a crime, by those who tried to prevent it from within. Mortgage brokers from California and a handful of New York executives called out these fraudulent transactions. But nobody listened.
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"A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. An investment banker approaching forty, his career collapsing and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London town house. Confronting the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost college friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared many years earlier under mysterious...
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Publisher
Portfolio Penguin
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
During a single historic weekend (September 12-14, 2008) the fate of Lehman Brothers was sealed, Merrill Lynch barely survived, and AIG became a ward of the federal government. Top CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo spent the entire weekend taking frantic phone calls from the most powerful players on Wall Street and in Washington, as they toiled to keep the economy from complete collapse. Those CEOs and dozens of other sources gave Bartiromo behind-the-scenes...
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Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Central banks and institutions like the IMF and the World Bank are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates by using the flow of money to control global markets and dictate economic policy both at the domestic and global level. These public institutions have become so dependent on funding from private banking and the revolving door between the two worlds is so smooth that public and private banks are effectively working toward the same goals....
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Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
vii, 369 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Over the last several decades, the United States has undergone one of the most radical social and economic transformations in its history: Finance has become America's dominant industry, while manufacturing has nearly disappeared. The financial sector has become increasingly criminalized, with widespread fraud going completely unpunished. Federal tax collections are at their lowest level in sixty years, with the wealthy enjoying the greatest tax reductions....
19) Too big to fail
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping former president Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward, at the wider world. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the same forces that produced the Trump presidency: spreading...
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