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1) The heist
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Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who's hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill -- if the two don't kill each other first.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
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From the bestselling, prize-winning author of The Last Tycoons and House of Cards comes a revelatory history of Goldman Sachs. Annotation: From the bestselling, prize-winning author of The Last Tycoons and House of Cards comes a revelatory history of Goldman Sachs.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Description
On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nations fifth-largest investment bank: "In my book, they are insolvent." This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns was about to announce profits of $115 million for the first quarter of 2008, had $17.3 billion in cash on hand, and, as the company incessantly...
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The author of the signature bestseller Liar's Poker explains how the event we were told was impossible--the free fall of the American economy--finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Description
A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. An investment banker approaching forty, his career collapsing and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London town house. Confronting the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost college friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared many years earlier under mysterious...
8) Breakthrough
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Julian Palmer novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
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Detective Julian Palmer assists with a seemingly simple insurance investigation but soon finds herself enmeshed in a bizarre case involving a dead investment banker, a mysterious briefcase, and a renegade inventor.
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Dutton
Pub. Date
1996.
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A CIA director with presidential ambitions, but not the cash, hires Arabs to launch a campaign of terror to precipitate economic chaos in the U.S. This will enable him to buy property at a cheap price, later selling it at a profit. The main protagonist is the banker raising money for the purchases.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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"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...
12) The devil's casino: friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Ward takes you inside Lehman's highly charged offices where you'll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses.
13) The takeover
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[1995]
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A plot by Wall Street financiers to topple a liberal U.S. president by creating a crisis on world markets. The operation, which requires several murders, including that of the Federal Reserve chairman, is prompted by the president's proposal for a 90 per cent inheritance tax which the rich oppose.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
An IRS woman takes on the armament industry after her director is murdered. Jesse Hayes learns the director was investigating illegal campaign funds to a senatorial candidate. The funds came from a company which was building a naval fighter plane. By the author of The Vulture Fund.
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Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
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...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Description
Contains "Wall Street," in which an ambitious young broker is lured into the illegal and lucrative world of corporate espionage; and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," in which a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former corporate raider Gordon Gekko.
17) Wall Street
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Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way into the tutelage of Gordon Gekko, the best of the best, Fox is soon rubbing shoulders with friends in the highest places. But in a world that values high-risk greed over low-yied ethics, Fox will soon find himself in a most precarious position.
20) Wall Street
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
20th anniversary ed.
Description
Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way into the tutelage of Gordon Gekko, the best of the best, Fox is soon rubbing shoulders with friends in the highest places. But in a world that values high-risk greed over low-yied ethics, Fox will soon find himself in a most precarious position.
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