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Oregon files volume 11
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Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after the hunt begins that the enormity of the plan comes into focus: the bank theft is just the first...
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The only thing worse than finding out that your husband is dead is discovering the secrets he left behind. Annabel's seemingly perfect ex-patriate life in Geneva is shattered when her banker husband Matthew's plane crashes in the Alps. When Annabel finds clues that his death may not be all it seems, she puts herself in the crosshairs of powerful enemies and questions whether she really knew husband at all. Meanwhile, journalist Marina is investigating...
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2014.
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In early 2012, Colorado joined with 48 other states and federal agencies reached an historic $25.0 billion settlement with the five major banks regarding their foreclosure practices. Colorado was awarded $51.17 million. The relief provided for under this settlement was designed to slow the foreclosure crisis and boost the housing market.
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Celebrated economic policy maker and political theorist Robert B. Reich argues that the nation's 2008 economic collapse is the result of an increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top--and a middle class that had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living. To ensure that prosperity is widely shared, he continues, requires the implementation of a much broader safety net for the middle class financed by higher marginal...
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2021.
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"Deftly weaving finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything--from the acclaimed author of Crashed. The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire world economy contracted by 20 percent in a matter of weeks...
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"America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse in the near future. The stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every major city. As hordes of refugees and looters pour out of the cities, a small group of friends living in the Midwest desperately tries...
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[2015]
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The Great Recession of 2007 wreaked enormous economic damage throughout the nation. Not only were employment losses the greatest since the 1930s but other aspects of labor market activity, such as labor force participation, declined to levels not seen since at least the late 1970s. The surge in unemployment and ensuing slow recovery in hiring placed tremendous strain on many state unemployment insurance trust funds. As a result, more than 30 state...
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Lowenstein unfurls a gripping chronicle of the 2008 financial collapse. In his trade mark style combining deep analysis with sizzling narrative, Lowenstein looks to the roots of the crisis to reveal how America yielded to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages. He shatters the widespread belief that the crisis began or reached a critical mass only with the failure of Lehman Brothers; instead, he shows that American homeowners, banking,...
13) Frozen assets
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"A body is found floating in the harbor of a rural Icelandic fishing village. Was it an accident, or something more sinister? Its up to Officer Gunnhildur, a sardonic female cop, to find out. Her investigation uncovers a web of corruption connected to Icelands business and banking communities. Meanwhile, a rookie crime journalist latches onto her, looking for a scoop, and an anonymous blogger is stirring up trouble. The complications increase, as...
14) The Big Short
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[2016]
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Four men who predicted the mid-2000s financial crisis attempt to make it big by using the "credit default swap" innovation.
15) The big white
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On the brink of bankruptcy, Alaska travel agent Paul Barnell cooks up a scheme to pass off a dead body as his long-lost brother, Raymond, to collect on his million-dollar life insurance policy. But unfortunately, the overly ambitious insurance investigator isn't buying the scam, the hit men responsible for the body want it back so they kidnap Paul's crazy but lovable Tourette's afflicted wife and, to top it off, Raymond shows up demanding a piece...
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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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2009
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The 8 new rules of money shares Robert Kiyosaki's view of global economics and explores why people are finding themselves challenged by these turbulent times. He provides solutions to finanacial problems and explains what created today's economic chaos and how it can be eased.
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From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today. In September 2008 President George Bush could still describe the financial crisis as an incident local to Wall Street. In fact it was a dramatic caesura of global significance that spiraled around the world, from the financial markets...