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83) The bank
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant young mathematician is on the verge of discovering a formula that could predict the fluctuations of the stock market and he is quickly taken under the wing of a corrupt CEO at Centabank. Together these two men will play a deadly game of deception and revenge, while initiating one of the largest banking scandals in history.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Panic of 1907. Black Tuesday (1929). Black Monday (1987). The Great Recession (2008). The Flash Crash (2010). Taken together they tell the story of a nation reaching enormous heights of financial power while experiencing precipitous dips that alter and reset a market where millions of Americans invest their savings, and on which they depend for their futures. Nations blends economic and cultural history to show how each of these major crashes...
Author
Series
IMF working paper volume WP/09/166
Publisher
International Monetary Fund, Monetary and Capital Market Dept
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. Banks like Countrywide and non-banks such as New Century Financial--all financed by Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and others--were in danger of closing, or actually failing. On average, 50 lenders a month were going bust. Chain of Blame will chronicle the disaster, focusing on the players - the executives on Wall Street but...
89) Wall Street polices itself: how securities firms manage the legal hazards of competitive pressures
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
92) Wall Street
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history and present role of Wall Street, the site of the New York Stock Exchange as well as powerful brokerage houses and investment firms.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Money for Nothing chronicles the moment when the needs of war, discoveries of natural philosophy, and ambitions of investors collided. It's about how the Scientific Revolution intertwined with finance to set England--and the world--off in an entirely new direction. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, England was running out of money due to a prolonged war with France. Parliament tried raising additional funds by selling debt to its citizens, taking...
96) The Fed: the inside story of how the world's most powerful financial institution drives the market
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In a special 4-hour investigation, Frontline tells the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and the unprecedented and uneasy partnership between government leaders and titans of finance that affects the fortunes of millions of people around the world.