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Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after the hunt begins that the enormity of the plan comes into focus: the bank theft is just the first...
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Hidden somewhere in New York City is a box of 1780 bonds with a face value of ten thousand dollars. The Supreme Court is about to decide if these bonds still have value. If the decision is yes, those ten thousand dollars, at five percent interest, will be worth a very pretty penny...Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington, must find the box - and fast. Suddenly, their race against time becomes a race through time as Peter and Evangeline...
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English
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An inside view of the greed and social power plays behind the closed doors of upper-crust society, An Absolute Scandal looks at a world where money isn't everything . . . sometimes, it's the only thing. And when the money disappears in the thick of a financial crisis, the real story begins.For Nigel Cowper, this means the destruction of his family business; his wife, Lucinda, is willing to do everything she can to help him—except give...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
534 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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From the publisher. Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems -- to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There{8217}s not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more...
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon.
Currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics. At best,
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With the epic proportions of a Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream.. The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the largest privately owned house in America, a 90,000 sq. ft. palace. Over the...
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
6th ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Manias, Panics and Crashes, is a vivid and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book has been hailed as 'a true classic...both timely and timeless.' In this new, updated fifth edition, Kindleberger and Aliber expand upon the ideas presented in the previous...
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Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
558 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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In her ground-breaking reporting Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment", losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization--virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk. And at least two factions have formed around how to respond. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan, believes humans...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010
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x, 353 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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This myth-shattering book reveals the methods Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help to make sense of the present and prepare for the future.
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English
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William D. Cohan's superb and shocking narrative chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system.
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
viii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Outlines ways readers can prepare for and protect themselves before, during, and after a crash; discusses risks faced by today's investors; and identifies alternatives to stock investing.
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Aftershock warns of a very different economic future from what most people think. The full impact of the recent bubble pop will create far more problems than we have now, especially for the dollar, and will push home prices and stocks even lower. Unlike most books that try to explain our economic troubles, Aftershock goes beyond the outdated notion of "market cycles" to help readers clearly recognize and quickly respond to the rapidly evolving economy....
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Publisher
Business Plus
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis" (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: our consumption doubles every twenty years-twice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations...
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English
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New York Times Bestseller
Washington Post Bestseller
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises.
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst
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Publisher
Plata Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Shows readers how to understand the past so that they can shape their financial future and use the Information Age tools and insights to their financial advantage and create a fresh start.
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