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22) Margin call
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Set in the high-stakes world of Wall Street, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster.
23) Sons of war
Author
Series
Sons of war (Sansbury Smith) volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore’s platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war. While some see the coming collapse as the end, others see opportunity. Fleeing Naples after rival crime lords decimated his family, Don Antonio Moretti settles in Los Angeles to rebuild his criminal empire. But he is far...
24) Capital
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the height of a financial crisis, the residents of Pepys Road, London, receive menacing postcards threating them.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Falling in love as Yale students and moving to New York City in 2008, hedge fund employee Evan is embroiled in a deal that risks everything he has worked for, while nonprofit employee Julia reconnects with someone from her past who represents a different kind of life.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, Inc., an Eagle Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In [this book], you'll learn how to use your personal Obama defense shield (as designed by Root) to protect yourself and your family, how you can create a precious metals defense system to preserve your assets, how you must educate your children to prepare them for the Depression to come, [and] how to protect your family and turn your home into a fortress in Obama's second term"--Dust jacket flap.
28) The Darlings
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-law's hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties lie when a scandal and a regulatory investigation threaten the family business.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea and Russia and the corridors of Washington, this is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and ultimately, the...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
How did Wall Street become a self-serving and ultimately destructive profit machine that imploded? Wall Street's real job is to be our "financial utility"-good financial plumbers that funnel capital to companies so the economy can expand and create jobs and also provide the means for individual investors to build portfolios that will increase personal wealth.But Wall Street went haywire and became (in Jon Stewart's words) a "bizarro" place that lost...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When looting and rioting overwhelm all the major US cities, Afghanistan War vet Ray McGregor makes his way from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to his parents' cattle ranch in Bella Coola, British Columbia, in remote western Canada. Joining him is his old friend Phil Adams, a Defense Intelligence Agency counterintelligence case officer based in Washington State. Lightly populated Bella Coola is spared the worst of the chaos, but when order is restored...
32) The big short
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The former chairman of the Federal Reserve documents his rise from a Southern youth to Ivy League professorships prior to the 2007 housing bubble burst, detailing the dramatic efforts to salvage the U.S. economy that made him "Time" magazine's 2009 Person of the Year.
34) Too big to fail
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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.
36) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Through extensive interviews with key financial insiders and others, examines the causes and effects of the global financial crisis of 2008, which nearly resulted in a global financial collapse.
37) Inside Job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Through extensive interviews with key financial insiders and others, examines the causes and effects of the global financial crisis of 2008, which nearly resulted in a global financial collapse.
Publisher
WBGH
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Frontline goes behind closed doors to tell the inside story of how things went so wrong so fast and to document efforts to stabilize the industry. Veteran Frontline producer Michael Kirk untangles the complicated financial and political web threatening one superbank in particular, Bank of America."--Container. DVD format.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG, and the $700 billion bailout. DVD format.