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On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, including an encrypted laptop and a shady client list. As she begins a desperate...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 348 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"The best-selling author of Naked Statistics and Naked Economics explores the colorful world of money and banking to answer such questions as how money creation is used to counter financial crises, why the shared European currency has caused so much trouble and how Bitcoin will impact the future,"--NoveList.
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English
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The National Book Award–winning history of American finance by the renowned biographer and author of Hamilton: "A tour de force" (New York Times Book Review).
The House of Morgan is a panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan's empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London...
The House of Morgan is a panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan's empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Rental [edition]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xix, 250 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Discusses the problems with American banking and investigates such informal banking alternatives as check-cashing businesses, payday lenders, and lending clubs.
"An urgent, absorbing exposé--why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did. What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twenty-something graduate student...
10) The rhesus chart
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Laundry files novels volume 5
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English
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"As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry--the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats--Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of darkness. But shining a light on things best left in the shadows is the last thing Bob wants to do--especially when those shadows hide an occult parasite spreading a deadly virus. Traders employed by a merchant bank...
11) A twist of fate
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
250 pages : map ; 18 cm
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English
Description
When Kane Webster buys First Puget Bank, he knows his is buying trouble. But could he fall in love with the woman suspected of embezzling funds?
12) Mad money
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
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Widescreen, full screen.
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Three desperate women working at the Federal Reserve hatch a plan to steal millions in worn-out currency headed for the shredder.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 47 min.)
Language
English
Description
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical, politically viable solutions to these problems have been few and far between. This illustrated presentation from distinguished historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz is a rare...
14) American kleptocracy: how the U.S. created the world's greatest money laundering scheme in history
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English
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"A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known. "An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer." -The Los Angeles Review of Books...
15) Sons of fortune
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 25 cm
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English
Description
In the late 1940s, twin boys are separated at birth, Nat going home with his middle-class parents, and Fletcher to be raised by a wealthy couple, but their lives come together when they both run for governor of Connecticut.
16) End the Fed
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Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
212 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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.
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Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 154 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible--albeit flawed--engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis in 2008. Maybe you hate the greed of Wall Street but know that it's important to the proper functioning of the world economy. Maybe you don't really understand...
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