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Series
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Kate O'Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world's most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years, the only name she's cared about is Nicolas Fox, an international crook she wants in more...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 266 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiance, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On Jess's first day at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her white, conservative sparring partner from college. Josh loves playing the devil's advocate and is just...the worst. But when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, it's Josh who shows up for her in surprising--if imperfect--ways. Before long, an unlikely friendship--one tinged with undeniable...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2014 the death of Bill Broeksmith, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was a mystery, made more so by the bank's efforts to deter investigation. Enrich traces bank's history back to the 1880s; to helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians. He shows how in the 1990s Deutsche made a decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law: scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering...
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Series
Publisher
For Dummies, a Wiley brand
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Learn to: grasp and apply the fundamentals of investment banking; understand post-financial crisis changes; score higher in your investment banking course"--Cover.
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Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xix, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Critical, independent voices are seldom found within the citadels of international finance. That's what makes Nomi Prins unique. During fifteen years as an executive at skyscraping banks like Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers, Prins never lost her ability to see the broader picture. She walked away from the game in 2002 out of disgust with the burgeoning corporate corruption, just as its magnitude was becoming clear to the public. In...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
September 11, 1844, Henry Lehman arrived in New York City on a ship from Germany. On September 15, 2008, the last CEO of Lehman Brothers, filed for corporate bankruptcy. The author explores the complete history of Lehman Brothers between those two historic Septembers.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 313 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the account, Goldman Sachs launched an internal investigation, and when the true identity of the man behind it all was revealed, it created a national media sensation--but that's only part of the story. Where @GSElevator captured the essence of the banking...