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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
2) The 6:20 man
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling...
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"After losing her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop, Natalie Vos returned home to lick her wounds. A few months later, she's sufficiently drowned her sorrows in cabernet and she's ready to get back on her feet. She just needs her trust fund to finance her new business venture. Unfortunately, the terms require she marry before she can have the money. And well, dumped, remember? But Natalie is desperate enough to propose to a man who makes her want...
4) Need you now
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Abe Cushman, the evil genius behind a $60 billion Ponzi scheme, has killed himself and taken his secrets to the grave. A young financial advisor and his girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street deep into the halls of government. With nowhere to turn and no one to trust, Patrick and Lilly must uncover the truth before they become collateral damage in a "financial war" in which casualties are no longer measured in dollars and cents....
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2011
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English
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Nicholas Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career-ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker, Herb Kovak, is murdered right in front of him and 60,000 other potential witnesses. As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seemingly inexplicable death, Foxton begins to question how well he knew his friend. Was the murder a case of mistaken identity or something more sinister?
6) Principles
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history. Dalio himself has appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater's exceptionally effective culture, which...
7) How to make a million dollars an hour: why hedge funds get away with siphoning off America's wealth
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English
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How hedge funds make money by taking it from the rest of us--and how you can join them!
Top hedge fund managers make more than Oprah, Rupert Murdoch, and A-Rod combined--but they aren't running news and entertainment empires or playing baseball for the New York Yankees. Aren't you curious about how these hedge fund dudes make so much doing who knows what? You may even wonder if you can get there, too. After all, this is America!
This
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
v, 321 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, shares the epic inside story of how a working-class kid from the Nebraska prairie took on Wall Street's clubby brokerage business, busted it open, and walked away a billionaire.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xx, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A highly readable personal finance book that translates financial jargon and enables readers to ask the tough questions to protect their money and their financial well-being In today's unsettled financial markets, where most pension plans died out with the twentieth century and where no one's certain of the future of Social Security, hardworking people turn to financial advisors to guide them to a worry-free financial lifestyle. But do you really...
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Pub. Date
2010
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[1st ed.]
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x, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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A gripping narrative of brilliance and hubris, "The Quants" follows the rise of 1950s-era math geniuses let loose on Wall Street--who then set in motion ever widening market catastrophes.
11) The trust
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
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306 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Temporarily taking charge of a philanthropic organization when its real-estate magnate owner dies under suspicious circumstances, stockbroker Grove O'Rourke discovers that the fund's charitable donations are being used for illicit purposes.
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Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"In December 2008, with financial crisis sweeping America and the globe, Bernard "Bernie" Madoff, a leading Wall Street figure and former chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, dropped the bombshell: For years he'd bilked thousands of investors worldwide to the tune of $50 billion. Overnight, the term "Ponzi scheme" --a fraudulent investment strategy that pays returns to early investors with money invested later by others--became synonymous with Madoff's...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how a financial column assignment revealed to the author the unethical machinations of the multi-billion-dollar personal finance industry and its false promises of quick and easy wealth, explaining how everyday investors are routinely misled by self-proclaimed money experts who exploit clients to increase their own wealth.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world that moves as fast as finance does, top producers have to think three steps ahead and make snap decisions. Theirs is a blurred version of reality, one that conceals moves as much as it rewards the bold ones. All too easily, scams can be disguised as success, and plotting can be mistaken for killer instincts. And as Grove O'Rourke finds out, "Nothing obscures vulnerability like success. Nothing that is, except for friendships." But this...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[DVD].
Physical Desc
14 videodiscs (36 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A financial advisor drags his famly from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
16) Moonlight kiss
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After two very public broken engagements with two very famous men, Addison Monroe is ready to avoid the spotlight. She decides to put her wedding planning experience to good use by opening a bridal boutique. Setting up shop in small town Kentucky is the perfect way to escape prying eyes and live a quiet, single life. Investment consultant Reid Greenfield is fed up with weddings and not his own. He is certain his sister's plan to turn their family...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bernie Madoff was a king of the financial world. He was quietly running the largest hedge fund in the world, a fund that eventually spread to over forty nations and handled tens of billions of dollars. Harry Markopolos was a number cruncher at a Boston equity derivatives firm analyzing investment products. When a marketer handed Harry a prospectus outlining Madoff's strategy and asked him to create a similar product, he looked at the numbers. Within...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's experiences as a mathematics wizard, author, inventor, hedge-fund manager, and card-counter who revealed casino-beating strategies, invented the first wearable computer, and launched a Wall Street revolution.
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nothing ever changes in Redford, Georgia. That's what freelance editor Jess Reid loves about her hometown--and part of what keeps her from leaving. Content taking care of her father, a car mechanic who singlehandedly raised her after her mom skipped out, Jess is resigned to a safe, unremarkable existence...until Jasper Wilhelm, the town's eccentric benefactor, dies suddenly and leaves behind the opportunity of a lifetime. Financial advisor Carter...